Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET) Annual International Conference School of Economics, University of Hyderabad

28th & 29th October 2024

Conference Overview

This will be the first annual conference after the formal establishment of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET). ISHET has been created to revive teaching and research in the field of history of economic thought (HET) in India.

📅 Event Dates

October 28-29, 2025

📍 Venue

School of Economics, University of Hyderabad

💼 Organized By

ISHET Committee

Keynote

To mark the formal establishment of ISHET and to deliver the inaugural keynote lectures, we will be joined by two distinguished historians of economic thought: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon 2) and Richard van den Berg (Kingston University London). 

Betancourt was the first president of The Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) and van den Berg is a former president of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). Betancourt’s current research is in the area of feminist economic thought and van den Berg works on 18th century French and British economic thought. 

📄 Call For Papers

We welcome papers on all topics related to the History of Economic Thought (HET). Below is an illustrative list of themes and areas of focus.

1. Economic Thought of Individuals

Kautilya, William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Harriet Taylor Mill, Augustin Cournot, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx, Dadabhai 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, Japanese, Russian, French, African, American, Latin American, and 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 and Externalist Approaches, Textual Analysis, Historical Reconstruction, Oral History

📚 For sample articles in HET journals, visit this resource page.