ISHET 2025
ABOUT
THE
CONFERENCE
This is the second annual conference of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET). ISHET has been established to revive teaching and research in the sub-field of history of economic thought (HET) in India.
ISHET 2025 will be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) on 11th and 12th of October 2025.
KEYNOTE LECTURE
The keynote lecture at ISHET 2025 will be delivered by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo. The lecture title is Krishna Bharadwaj’s legacy: The apologia for an objective basis of analysis in economics. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Italy and Fellow and Foreign Secretary of the Italian Academy of Lincei. Former President of the European Society for the History of Economic and the Italian Society for the History of Political Economy and presently she is Distinguished Fellow and Vice-President of the History of Economics Society (USA). She has been Visiting Professor in several universities in Europe, Japan, Mexico and United States She has worked on classical monetary theory, the Cambridge School of Economics, and Keynesian economics. She has published more than 110 articles in journals and books, plus authoring or editing 25 books. Collections of her essays have been published by Routledge (Fighting market failure, 2012) and by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Essays in Keynesian Persuasion, 2019) and Palgrave Macmillan (Economics Theories, Protagonists and Facts, 2025)
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome papers on all HET topics. An illustrative list is provided below.
1) Economic thought of individuals
Kautilya, Khaldun, William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Harriet Taylor Mill, Augustin Cournot, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx, Dadhabhai Naoroji, B. R. Ambedkar, Wassily Leontief, Piero Sraffa, Krishna Bharadwaj
2) Thematic concerns
Feminist, Ecological, Labour, Caste, Finance, Money, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Inequality, Mathematics in economics
3) Regional economic thought
Indian economic thought, Japanese economic thought, Russian economic thought, French economic thought, African economic thought, American and Latin American economic thought, British economic thought
4) Teaching HET
Integrating HET in micro and macro, pluralism and HET, HET and critical pedagogy
5) Methods in HET
Archival strategies, internalist approach, externalist approach, textual analysis, historical reconstruction, oral history
For sample articles in HET journals, click here.
YSI Pre-Conference Workshop
The 2025 workshop aims to provide young scholars with essential tools for engaging with research in the history of economic thought (HET). It will include the following sessions:
Introduction to the HET workshop – Rohit Azad (JNU)
How to Write HET Theses – Alex M. Thomas (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
Publishing in HET and Heterodox Economics – Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University, Canada)
Methods in HET – Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Sapienza University of Rome)
Doing History of Economic Thought– Sharmin Khodaiji (O. P. Jindal Global University)
For more information and to apply, click here.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 30 June 2025 Click here to submit your abstract.
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2025
Deadline for paying the registration fees: 15 August 2025
Deadline for submitting full papers: 30 September 2025
YSI pre-ISHET conference workshop: 10 October 2025
ISHET Conference: 11, 12 October 2025
REGISTRATION FEES
These are being collected to partially defray the costs of food, venue and conference collateral. In the event of a surplus, it will be transferred to ISHET’s fund.
- Associate Professors & Professors: Rs. 4000
- Assistant Professors & Working Professionals: Rs. 3000
- PhD candidates & Retired academics: Rs. 2000
- BA/MA students: Rs. 1000
ACCOMMODATION
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Convenor: Ishan Anand (IIT-Delhi)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Ishan Anand (IIT-Delhi)
R. Ashwath (ISHET)
Sharmin Khodaiji (Jindal Global University)
Alex M. Thomas (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
CONTACT
For any information or assitance regarding ISHET’s annual international conference 2025, please write to ishet2025@gmail.com.