Mexico City, November 26-28, 2025. More information coming soon.
MoreMexico City, November 26-28, 2025. More information coming soon.
MoreIn a collaboration between the Latin American Association for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE), the History of Economics Society (HES) and the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), the 4th Winter School for the History of Economic Thought in Latin America will take place at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile, from July 12 to 14, 2024, as a pre-meeting for the HES Conference, which will take place in the same location from July 14 to 18. The theme of the Winter School is "Research on history of economic thought in Latin America: present consolidation and future challenges".
MoreMedellín, 16-18 November 2023
MoreMontevideo, April 20-22, 2022
MoreCuritiba, November 20-22, 2019
MoreCiudad de México, February 13-16, 2019
MoreBogotá, November 29 to December 1, 2017
MoreOuro Preto, February 07-10, 2017
MoreBogotá, February 02-06, 2015
MoreSantiago, November 25-27, 2015
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MoreCiudad de México, November 9-12, 2011
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The Winter School aims to bring together young scholars interested in expanding their knowledge of the history of economic thought and improving their research skills. As part of a Latin American effort to strengthen the HPE community, the Winter School will emphasize the regional and national traditions of economic thought, as well as the interaction between ideas and policies in Latin American countries. However, the target audience should not be restricted to the region. On the contrary, the goal is to include researchers, both young and experienced, from many different parts of the world. The same applies to the academic themes to be addressed. The idea is to encourage debates not only on Latin American issues in a narrow sense but also on interconnections and dissemination processes. In other words: on articulations between Latin America and the rest of the world.
To apply, please fill out the application form by March 15, 2024:
https://forms.gle/ujUWh7tpCdvAaCv99.
There are limited travel and accommodation stipends available upon request for both the Winter School and the HES Conference. Selected participants must submit an extended abstract (between 2 and 3 pages) of their research project by June 15, 2024. Additionally, participants must register as presenters or attendees at the HES Conference (it’s a different registration: to present a paper, the deadline is March 1, 2024 – more information: link). Both written extended abstracts and oral presentations at the Winter School can be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, but visual presentations (such as PPT) must be in English. For any inquiries, please contact us: histeconws@gmail.com.
Organizing team: Melissa Vergara Fernández, Nicolás Dvoskin, and Luiz Felipe Bruzzi Curi
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín November 16, 17 and 18, 2023
Local organizer: Alexander Tobón
E-mail: alahpe@udea.edu.co
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE CONFERENCE’S WEBPAGE
Registrations for the 9th ALAHPE Conference are now open (see links at the end of this page)
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:
Edith Kuiper (State University of New York at New Paltz)
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 May 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!
REGISTRATIONS (two-step process)
Professor Maurício has a degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1974), a master's degree in Economic Science from the State University of Campinas (1979) and a PhD in Economic Science from the State University of Campinas (1984). He held a postdoctoral degree at the University of London (1994-95). He is a full professor at the State University of Campinas. He has experience in the area of Public Sector Economics, with an emphasis on Brazilian Public Finance, including Social Security. He researches and publishes in the area of History of Economic Thought. Since 2005, he has been carrying out research on Brazilian economic thought (Celso Furtado, Cairu) and the formation of economic thought in the period 1650-1780, particularly monetary economics. Studies on the formation of the monetary economy include authors such as Barbon, Locke, Law, Cantillon, Hume, Turgot, Smith and, particularly, James Steuart. He also develops studies on the diffusion of economic thought in the Portuguese-Portuguese world in the period 1750-1830 and on the work of José da Silva Lisboa (Cairu). These studies include the analysis of the first edition of Wealth of Nations in Portuguese (in 1811). Starting in 2018, in connection with the International Adam Smith Society (IASS), new studies on Smith, involving topics such as currency, capital (stock x capital), income (revenue), product (produce).
The 8th Latin American Conference on the History of Economic Thought will be hosted by Universidad de la República, in Montevideo (Uruguay), between April 20 and 22, 2022.
Click here to access the conference dedicated website.
Universidad de la República is the main public university in Uruguay, and its Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administración is the oldest and most prominent center for the training of economists in the country.
Given the uncertainty of the present circumstances, the meeting will have a combined virtual and in- person structure. Nonetheless, the organizers will monitor the situation attentively and the exact format will be broadly communicated by December 2021.
Doing HET from LAC: superiorities, empires, and all the rest
We seek to encourage scholars dedicated to the study of economic ideas in Latin America to connect the literatures on imperialism and the superiority of economists — expanding, criticizing or enriching them, and also assessing their implications for theoretical, empirical, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. We are also interested in receiving contributions reflecting a wide scope of approaches to the history of economic thought and to social studies of science. Contributions exploring the diffusion of economic ideas through the work of leading scholars, politicians or other relevant actors are particularly welcome (for example, addressing the long run impacts of the Chicago School). As usual, papers addressing the broad spectrum of topics associated with the history of economics are also welcome.
Deadline for submission of proposals for individual papers (500 words) or sessions (1000 words): November 15, 2021
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 2021
Deadline for submission of full papers: March 30, 2022
Proposals for individual papers should be submitted using the form below. If you wish to submit a proposal for a whole session, please contact alahpe2021@fcea.edu.uy
Confirmed speakers and panelists:
Beatrice Cherrier (CREST, CNRS and ENSAE / Ecole Polytechnique)
John Davis (Marquette University and University of Amsterdam)
Subercaseux Lecturer:
Verónica Montecinos (Penn State University)
Scientific committee:
Felipe Almeida (Universidade Federal de Paraná)
Rebeca Gomez-Betancourt (Université Lyon 2)
John Davis (Marquette University and University of Amsterdam)
María Inés Moraes (Universidad de la República)
Matari Pierre (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Andrés Rius (Universidad de la República)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (American University of Paris)
Luis Cáceres (Universidad de la República)
Mauricio De Rosa (Universidad de la República)
Pablo Marmissolle (Universidad de la República)
Pablo Messina (Universidad de la República)
María Inés Moraes (Universidad de la República)
Andrés Rius (Universidad de la República)
Andrea Vigorito (Universidad de la República)
Schedule Photo GalleryDistinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology and Program Coordinator, Teaching International, Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are centered in the cociology of economics, democratization, technocratic politics in Latin America, gender and pensions, gender and politics. She is the author of Economists, Politics and the State, Chile 1958–1994 (CEDLA, 1998), co-editor of Economists in the Americas (Edward Elgar, 2009), and editor of Women Presidents and Prime Ministers in Post-Transition Democracies, Palgrave (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Her research articles have been published in journals such as the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Latin American Research Review and Studies in Comparative International Development. She received her doctorate in Sociology from Pittsburgh University.
The 7th Latin American Conference on the History of Economic Thought was hosted by the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba (Brazil), between November 20 and 22, 2019. With the theme “Promoting the History of Economic Thought in Latin America: Richness, Limits and Challenges”, the event featured Jeremy Adelman, Mauro Boianovsky and Marianne Johnson as keynote speakers.
On November 19, the eve of the official opening of the conference, the INET Young Scholars Initiative also promoted the workshop “Women in the History of the Latin American Economics”, where young researchers had an opportunity to present their research in progress and participate in a lecture by professor Verónica Montecinos on the theme of the meeting.
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Andrea Felippe Cabello (Universidade de Brasília, Brasil)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
Danielle Guizzo Archella (University of the West of England, England)
Eduardo Angeli (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil)
Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University, USA)
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université Lyon 2, France)
Virginia Laura Fernández (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, e Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil)
Felipe Almeida, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Eduardo Angeli, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Marco Cavalieri, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Marcelo Curado, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Virgínia Fernández, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Ivan Salomão, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Maríndia Brites, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Lucas Casonato, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Victor Cruz e Silva, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Gustavo Goulart, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Luís Gustavo de Paula, Universidade Federal do Paraná
Jeremy Adelman (PhD, Modern History, Oxford University) is Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University. His research interests cover economic history, imperial history, intellectual history and political history in Latin America and the Caribbean. Adelman received support from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the ACLS Frederick Burkhardt in recognition of his teaching activity at Princeton.
The 3rd History of Economics Summer School in Latin America (HESSLA) was hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México between February 13th and 16th, 2019, with the theme “The History of Economic Thought in and from Latin America”. The event was supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, through its Young Scholars Initiative.
Teresa Aguirre (UNAM)
Mónica Blanco (UNAM)
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université Lyon 2)
Elsa Gracida (UNAM)
Juan Odisio (CONICET/UBA)
Cecilia Rikap (CEPED, IRD/Université Paris Descartes)
María Eugenia Romero Ibarra (UNAM)
Ricardo Solís (UAM-I)
Carlo Panico (UNAM)
Jérôme Lange (Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid (UNAM)
María Eugenia Romero Sotelo (UNAM)
Florencia Sember (CONICET/UBA)
Enrique Semo (UNAM)
The 6th Latin American Conference on the History of Economic Thought was hosted by the Universidad de Los Andes, in Bogotá (Colombia), between November 29 and December 1, 2017. With the theme “The 21st Century Economy Illuminated by its Past”, the event featured Ana Maria Bianchi, Samuel Bowles, Michel de Vroey and Uskali Mäki as keynote speakers.
On November 28, the day before the official opening of the conference, the INET Young Scholars Initiative, through its working groups on the History of Economic Thought and Philosophy of Economics, also promoted a workshop on recent research methods in the history of economic thought, designed for young researchers participating in the conference.
Felipe Almeida (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes)
Mauricio Coutinho (Unicamp)
José Edwards (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
Manuela Fernández (Universidad de los Andes)
Rebeca Gómez-Betancourt (Triangle / Université Lyon 2)
Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes)
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Cedeplar / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Matari Pierre (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México)
Erich Pinzón-Fuchs (Universidad de los Andes)
Florencia Sember (Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires)
Ricardo Solís (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Cedeplar / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes)
Manuela Fernández (Universidad de los Andes)
Andrés Mauricio Guiot (Universidad de los Andes)
Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes)
Claudia Milena Pico (Universidad de la Salle)
Erich Pinzón-Fuchs (Universidad de los Andes)
Andrés-Felipe Sierra (Universidad de los Andes)
ScheduleLive-streaming: Subercaseaux Lecture with Prof. Ana María Bianchi on “Challenges of doing research in the history of https://t.co/fUJziVvNl0
— SHoET (@Societies_HET) December 1, 2017
Ana Maria Bianchi (PhD Sociology, University of São Paulo) is Senior Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo. In addition to her extensive work in the history of economics, her research also deals with topics in economic methodology, economic sociology and behavioral economics. She has also published important works on the ideas of development economists such as Raúl Prebisch and Albert Hirschman.
The 2nd History of Economics Summer School in Latin America (HESSLA) was hosted in partnership by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), between February 7 and 10, 2017. Promoting the theme “State and Capitalism in the History of Economics”, the event featured Keith Tribe, Jimena Hurtado, Harald Hagemman, Mauro Boianovsky, Roberto Lampa and Roberto Monte-Mor as guest speakers.
Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes)
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Daniel do Val Cosentino (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Schedule Photo GalleryThe 1st History of Economic Summer School in Latin America (HESSLA) was hosted by Universidad de Los Andes, between February 02 and 06, 2015. Emphasizing themes related to the history of monetary and financial ideas, the event featured Perry Mehrling, Carl Wennerlind, Ludovic Desmedt, Jean Cartelier and Rebeca Gomez Betancourt as guest speakers.
Schedule Photo GalleryThe 5th conference promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in Latin America was hosted by Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, in Santiago (Chile), between 25 and 27 November 2015. With the theme “Historical Approaches in Economy: From Continental Europe to the Americas”, the event featured Alicia Bárcena, Osvaldo Sunkel, José Cademártori and Rolf Lüders as keynote speakers. The conference also held a day of activities at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
José Luís Cardoso (Universidade de Lisboa)
Annie L. Cot (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne)
José Edwards (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
Pedro Garcia Duarte (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Rebeca Gómez Betancourt (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound)
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Nicole Gardella (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
José Edwards (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
Andrés Estefane (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
Claudio Robles (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
ScheduleThe 4th conference promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in Latin America was hosted by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), between 19 and 21 November 2014. With the theme “Originality, Adaptation and Critique: The Place of Latin America in the History of Economic Thought”, the event featured Ricardo Bielschowsky, Joseph Love, Michele Alacevich, Mauro Boianovsky, Timothy Hochstrasser, José Luis Cardoso, Tamotsu Nischizawa, Anthony Howe, Maurício Coutinho and Nicholas Theocarakis as keynote speakers.
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasília)
Maurício Coutinho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
José Luís Cardoso (Universidade de Lisboa)
Cristina Marcuzzo (Universitá di Roma ‘La Sapienza’)
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
ScheduleThe 3rd conference promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in Latin America was hosted by Universidad EAFIT, in Medellín (Colombia), between November 20 and 22, 2013. With the theme “Path Dependence and Economic Development”, the event featured Jimena Hurtado, Adolfo Meisel, Annalisa Rosselli, Hans-Michael Trautwein and Miguel Urrutia Montoya as keynote speakers.
Mario García (Universidad Nacional)
Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de Los Andes)
Mauricio Ramírez (EAFIT)
Annalisa Rosselli (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”)
Alexander Tobón (Universidad de Antioquia)
Hans-Michael Trautwein (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)
Luis Guillermo Vélez (EAFIT)
ScheduleThe 2nd conference promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in Latin America was hosted by the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, in Buenos Aires (Argentina), between November 21 and 23, 2012. With the theme “Center and Periphery Countries: Lessons from Economic History and the History of Economic Thought”, the event featured Emanuel Agis, Cristina Marcuzzo, Mario Rapoport, Hans-Michael Trautwein, Eduardo Crespo, Roberto Frenkel, Franklin Serrano and Matías Vernengo as keynote speakers.
Martín Abeles (CEPAL)
Alejandro Fiorito (UNLU y UBA)
Rodrigo López (CEFID-AR)
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Sapienza, Università d Roma)
Mario Rapoport (UBA)
Hans-Michael Trautwein (University of Oldenburg)
ScheduleThe 1st conference promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) in Latin America was hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Ciudad de México, between November 9 and 12, 2011. With the theme “From the Colonial Era to Globalization: Approaches and Reflections in the History of Economic Thought”, the event featured Cosimo Perrotta, Jorge Mattar, Ricardo Bielschowsky, Julio López Gallardo, Cristina Marcuzzo and Carlos Tello as keynote speakers.
Harald Hagemann (University of Hohenheim)
María Eugenia Romero Sotelo (Facultad de Economía, UNAM)
Cristina Marcuzzo (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’)
Leonor Ludlow Wiechers (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM)
Annie Cot (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Francisco Suárez Dávila (Facultad de Economía, UNAM)
José Luís Cardoso (Universidade de Lisboa)
Pedro Pérez Herrero (Universidad de Alcalá)
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