The Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) is an non-profit academic organization dedicated to promoting teaching, research and the dissemination of knowledge related to the history of economics in Latin America. On this webpage, you will find information on the structure and functioning of ALAHPE and the events promoted by the association, as well as a series of useful electronic resources related to the history of economics.
Since its creation in 2015, ALAHPE has been dedicated to the pursuit of three main goals: 1) to promote teaching, research and the dissemination of knowledge about the history of economics in Latin America; 2) to encourage cooperation with other scientific organizations that share an interest in the history of economics; and 3) to foster communication and the exchange of ideas between professionals dedicated to the history of economics.
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ALAHPE runs a mailing list for the dissemination of information and discussion of subjects relevant to the history of economics. Use the link below to join the conversation.
President
Full Professor of Economics, Université Lyon 2 - Triangle, France
rebeca.gomez-betancourt@univ-lyon2.fr
Vice President
Investigador Asociado, IIS, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
mataripierre@gmail.com
Secretary
Professor Associado, Depto. Economia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil
felipe.almeida@ufpr.br
Treasurer
Profesor Auxiliar, Economics Department, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
jcaacostamacia@gmail.com
Elected Member
Professora Associada, Departamento de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
lauramattos@usp.br
Elected Member
Investigador Asociado, Centre for Labour Studies and Research, Conicet, Argentina
ndvoskin@gmail.com
Elected Member
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University, Netherlands
vergarafernandez@esphil.eur.nl
Webmaster
Associate Professor, The American University of Paris, France
csuprinyak@aup.edu
Medellín, 16-18 November 2023
MoreSome documents related to the founding of ALAHPE
The Latin American Association for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) was created in November 2015, in Santiago, during the activities of the 5th Latin American Conference on the History of Economic Thought – ESHET Chile 2015. The event was part of a series Latin American conferences promoted since 2011 with the support of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), with previous editions in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil. These conferences played a fundamental role in reinforcing the sense of community among professionals dedicated to the history of economics who shared multiple ties, both personal and academic, with Latin America.
As this spirit matured, the decision was made, in Santiago, to create an autonomous association dedicated to cultivating a common space for the Latin American community of historians of economics. The founding document of ALAHPE was signed by 37 participants at the Santiago meeting, with the express support of 65 other professionals, together representing ten different Latin American countries.
Since then, ALAHPE has been working to put into practice the different aspects of its institutional mission. Its main instruments, so far, are the academic events organized by the association. Every two years, ALAHPE promotes the Latin American Conference on the History of Economic Thought, which quickly established itself as the main forum for academic exchange between scholars working in the region. The association is also responsible for organizing HESSLA, a summer school dedicated to young researchers with an interest in the field. Finally, we also manage an electronic mailing list, which provides a space for disseminating news, publications, works in progress, and other relevant discussions.
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One of the aims and interests behind the creation of a Latin American association for the history of economic thought was to attract attention to ideas and authors coming from the periphery. From the beginning, our society aimed to improve diversity in the history of economic thought by giving more space to scholars who come from the global South, especially Latin America. It also purported to strengthen the history of economic thought community within the region.
We know, however, that much remains to be improved regarding diversity and inclusion within ALAHPE. The challenges are even greater considering the particularities of this region: great income inequality and high discrimination toward certain groups and minorities. This is why the first Executive Committee has already created a diversity and inclusion sub-committee responsible for studying and addressing related issues.
We are committed to advancing the approval of a code of conduct and a guide for scientific events at our forthcoming Montevideo conference. Moreover, the diversity and inclusion committee has begun to elaborate some initiatives that could be put in practice already for the Montevideo conference. These initiatives aim to identify the current situation of ALAHPE concerning diversity and inclusion, and consider means to improve it. These and other related contents will be uploaded to this space once they are available.
The current diversity and inclusion committee is composed of Julia Fleider Marchevsky and Rebeca Gomez Betancourt. Please feel free to contact us.
The ALAHPE Executive Committee
May 21, 2021
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Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín November 16, 17 and 18, 2023
Local organizer: Alexander Tobón
E-mail: alahpe@udea.edu.co
The Ninth Latin American Congress of History of Economic Thought will bring together historians of economic thought with the purpose of discussing the theoretical problems, methods, controversies, and historical contexts that explain the evolution of the economic discipline and its place in society.
This academic space seeks to broaden the spectrum of research topics in the history of economic thought. The aim is to promote new approaches, perspectives, methods and bibliographic sources, which in turn favor the growth of networks of researchers and has a greater incidence of their production in the media of scientific dissemination.
This space also seeks to contribute to the revitalization of teaching in the history of economic thought in undergraduate and graduate studies, so that new generations of professionals can continue to take advantage of the enormous intellectual wealth of this area of university education.
The conference wishes in particular to receive proposals on the following topics:
1. The teaching of the history of economic thought (syllabus, digital education platforms, manuals).
2. The current state of economics discipline from the perspective of the history of economic thought.
3. The history of economic thought from a gender perspective.
4. The contribution of the new generation of historians of economic thought.
5. History of the relations between economics and political regimes.
6. Relationship between historians of economics and historians of other sciences.
7. Evolution of the boundaries between economics and other disciplines (sociology, anthropology, political science, law, physics, psychology).
8. Economic thinking (ideas, practices and institutions) facing problems such as climate change, inequality, degrowth, etc. in the history.
9. Making history of economic thought in the digital era.
10. Political activism and history of economic thought.
As in previous ALAHPE conferences, papers addressing any other topics, episodes and periods covered by the history of the discipline and related topics are also welcome.
Keynote speakers:
Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Juan Flores Zendejas (Université de Genève)
Subercaseaux Lecture:
Mauricio Coutinho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Presidential address:
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université Lyon 2-Triangle)
Scientific committee
Eduardo Angeli (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
Juan Acosta (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)
Luiz Felipe Bruzzi (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Luis Cáceres (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
Rebeca Gómez Betancourt (Lumiere Lyon 2 University, France)
Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, United States)
Matari Pierre (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Monika Meireles (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
José Manuel Menudo (Pablo de Olavide University, Spain)
Simona Pisanelli (University of Salento, Italy)
Alexander Tobón (University of Antioquia, Colombia)
Melissa Vergara Fernández (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Local organizing committee (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
Alexander Tobón
Maria Isabel Restrepo Estrada
Danny García Callejas
Juan Carlos Velásquez Torres
YSI Pre-Conference Workshop @ ALAHPE
The INET Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) group will organize a workshop on November 15, 2023, at the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia), one day before the beginning of this year’s ALAHPE Conference. For more information, see: https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/project/63c9a4619ed97f3757976fee/event/63d6bba28595f72c2af69520
Important dates
1. Launch of the call for papers: February 1, 2023
2. Submission of proposals:
– Individual papers: send an abstract of maximum 500 words and its respective title using the form below
– Organized sessions: send an abstract of maximum 1000 words and their respective title to the email alahpe@udea.edu.co
Abstracts may be written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. The deadline is April 15, 2023.
3. Acceptance of proposals:
The proposals accepted by the scientific committee will be communicated to their authors on June 15, 2023.
4. Submission of complete papers:
The complete works may be written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. They must be sent until October 15, 2023, to email alahpe@udea.edu.co.
5. Presentation of papers at the conference:
The oral presentation may be in Spanish, English or Portuguese, but the slides must be written in English. The conference will be entirely in-person.
6. YSI Pre-Conference Workshop @ ALAHPE
In the following weeks, a call for papers will be issued for the Young Scholars Initiative Pre-Conference Workshop @ ALAHPE. The workshop will take place on the eve of the ALAHPE Conference. Its title is “Challenges, prospects, and pitfalls of the research on recent topics in HET.” Partial Funding for young scholars to attend the workshop will be available.
See you in Medellin November 16- 18!