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Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is hosted by historians of economic thought Jennifer Jhun, François Allisson, and Çınla Akdere. Each month, the hosts discuss themes related to economics, its history and methodology, and its relevance to contemporary affairs.

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42:39

Episode Ninety Five

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/11/15

François, Jennifer, and Çınla discuss a few recent additions to the literature. If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls): Freedom, State, and Market: The Real Worlds of Economic Planning Angus Hebenton and Martin O'Neill To Change or Not to Change. The Evolution of Forecasting Models at the Bank of England Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi, Béatrice Cherrier, Juan Acosta, Clément Fontan, and François Claveau

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01:20:44

Episode Ninety Four

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/10/17

The co-hosts are joined by three Junior Fellows at Duke University's Center for the History of Political Economy, Benjamin Brisson, Eva Jacob, and Raphaël Orange-Leroy, to discuss their interests in the history of economic thought, their experiences in graduate school, and their research projects.

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01:03:37

Episode Ninety Three

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/09/15

François and Jennifer are joined by Peter Boettke, Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University (among other titles), to discuss his unique and influential teacher, Kenneth Boulding, the history of the Socialist Calculation Debate, and the possible significance of artificial intelligence for the future of political economy.

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01:23:20

Episode Ninety Two

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/07/15

The hosts meet with Harro Maas, Professor in the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought at the University of Lausanne, to discuss several of his contributions to the literature.

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54:06

Episode Ninety One

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/06/16

In this month's episode, Jennifer, Çınla, and François interview Giandomenica Becchio, Professor in the Department of Economics, Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Statistics at the University of Torino, about her 2024 book Political Economy and Economics: Gender Equality and Classical Liberalism (Palgrave).

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58:34

Episode Ninety

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/05/15

François, Jenn, and Çınla speak with Jennifer Burns, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions in the History Department at Stanford University, about her book Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (2023).

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01:20:03

Episode Eighty Nine

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/04/15

Çınla, François, and Jennifer are joined by Alexander Linsbichler, Senior Postdoc with the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and Lecturer of Philosophy and Economics at the University of Vienna, to discuss his work on rational reconstruction as a philosophical method, Austrian Economics, and the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivism.

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01:23:21

Episode Eighty Eight

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/03/15

Jennifer, Çınla, and François talk with André Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of the History of Economic Thought in the Laboratoire PHARE at University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, regarding his work on David Hume, the history of ideas about usury, and economic historiography.

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01:16:12

Episode Eighty Seven

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/02/15

The co-hosts are joined by Professor Sandra Peart to discuss her many and varied contributions to the history of economic thought. Professor Peart is Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President of the Jepson Scholars Foundation at the University of Richmond. She is also the most recently named Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, which the Society confers on those who have contributed a lifetime of study to the history of economics

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39:46

Episode Eighty Six

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2025/01/15

Jennifer, François, and Çınla talk with Professor Kayoko Misaki, Professor of Economics at Shiga University in Hikone, Japan, about her recent book, Léon Walras’s Economic Thought: The General Equilibrium Theory in Historical Perspective.

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49:00

Episode Eighty Five

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/12/15

Çınla, François, and Jennifer discuss a number of recent additions to the literature. If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls): Today’s economics: one, no one and one hundred thousand Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini & John B. Davis Neither Populist nor Neoclassical: The Classical Roots of the Competition Principle in American Antitrust Law Nicola Giocoli Before NBER: Warren Nutter's Soviet Research at the CIA

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56:36

Episode Eighty Four

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/11/15

In another of our occasional early-career scholars episodes, Çınla, Jennifer, and François speak with Hannah Glasson and Dominic Walker, both currently fellows at Duke University's Center for the History of Political Economy, about their interests in the history of economic thought, experiences in graduate school, the academic job market, and their various research projects.

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37:46

Episode Eighty Three

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/10/15

In this month's episode of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar, François, Çınla, and Jennifer sit down with Marcel Boumans, Past President of the History of Economics Society, and Professor of History of Economics and Head of Section of Applied Economics at Utrecht University School of Economics. Topics include Professor Boumans' work on the historiography of mathematical economics and the meaning of art for the history of economics.

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42:07

Episode Eighty Two

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/09/15

Jennifer, François, and Çınla are joined by Laetitia Lenel, Professor of Cultural History of the Economic in the Institute of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, to discuss some of her recent work on the role of narratives in economics.

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50:42

Episode Eighty One

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/07/15

In this month's episode, Çınla, Jennifer, and François speak with Professor Cheryl Misak, University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Canadian Royal Society, and Guggenheim Fellow, about Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, her highly regarded biography of the influential mathematician, philosopher, and economist. Other topics include Professor Misak's work on Charles Sanders Peirce and the pragmatist tradition at the University of Cambridge.

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45:04

Episode Eighty

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/06/15

François, Çınla, and Jennifer interview Till Düppe, Professor of Economics at Université du Québec à Montréal, about his work on lived epistemology, Gérard Debreu, Sidney Weintraub, and other topics.

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01:25:50

Episode Seventy Eight

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/04/15

Jennifer, Çınla, and François are joined by Spencer Banzhaf, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Environmental & Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University, to discuss the history of environmental economics and, especially, his new book Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics.

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01:26:50

Episode Seventy Seven

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2024/03/15

Çınla and François are joined by Kseniia Lopukh, Associate Professor of Economics at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, to discuss her work on the famous Ukrainian economist, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, as well as the economic history of, and history of economic thought in, Ukraine.

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01:20:06

Episode Forty Six

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2021/07/15

Jenn and Scott are joined by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Research Associate at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, to discuss several of her recent research projects. Topics include economists and econometricians as expert witnesses in American court cases, Milton Friedman's controversial paper "Capitalism and the Jews," Tim Leonard's book Illiberal Reformers, and the history of CSWEP, the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of

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01:25:36

Episode Forty Five

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of... ·

2021/06/15

Scott, Carlos, and Jenn are joined by Michele Alacevich of the University of Bologna to discuss his new book, Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/albert-o-hirschman/9780231199827 Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org

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