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• Guest: Srishti Yadav (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne)

In this episode Maria talks to Srishti about her heterodox economics studies, her work on Paradigms in Economics and her book project on the agrarian question in India.

Check out the following links to Srishti’s research:

1. Yadav, S. (2022) ‘Caste, diversification, and the contemporary agrarian question in India: A field perspective’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(4), pp. 651–672.
2. A video presentation of the above article for the Foundation of Agrarian Studies seminar series.
3. Yadav, S. (2022) ‘Reviewing Petty Commodity Production: Toward a Unified Marxist Conception’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 54(4), pp. 411–419.

To check out the Indian Society of History of Economic Thought established in 2023, click here.

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• Guest: Cecilia Lanata-Briones (Warwick University)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, Maria talks to her co-author and team member of a new project on the history of national accounting in what we call the Global South today. Cecilia talks about her thesis on the history of the cost-of-living index in Argentina, a recent co-edited book and our new project.

To check out some of Cecilia’s work, see two of her articles linked below:

1. Lanata-Briones, C.T. (2021) ‘Constructing Cost of Living Indexes Ideas and Individuals, Argentina, 1918–35’, History of Political Economy, 53(1), pp. 57–87.
2. Lanata-Briones CT. (2023) ‘RECONSTRUCTING OFFICIAL STATISTICS: A NEW ESTIMATE OF THE ARGENTINE COST OF LIVING INDEX‘, 1912-1943. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. 41(1):39-82.

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• Guest: Nestor Lovera (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, Maria interviews Nestor Lovera from the Université of Reims Champagne-Ardenne about his thesis and latest projects. For a summary of Nestor’s thesis, click here.

Check out Nestor’s new podcast (in French) on the history of economic thought: https://l-heure-d-unepauseconomique.fr/

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• Guests: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna), Justine Loulergue (PhD Student, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 & Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), María Gutiérrez Ruan (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), Tatiana Fauconnet (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil) and Biancamaria Fontana (Emeritus Professor, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

We’re back with a second episode with existing and former members of the Walras Pareto Centre. If you didn’t listen to part I, I recommend listening to part I first.

This time we will hear about what they like and dislike about their work. And about any regrets they may have about their choices or trajectories.

If you want to join an online writing group on Thursdays at 10.15-12.15 CEST, contact Maria Bach via Twitter or email.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Loop of Life – V01 by RAME (RAMEofficial.com) via FreeSound (freesound.org/people/RokZRooM) under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-ND license.

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• Guests: Maxine Berg (Professor, Warwick University) and Pat Hudson (Professor, Cardiff University)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, I interview Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson about their recent book on the role of slavery in capitalist development and the British industrial revolution.

To check out Eric Williams book on slavery and capitalism, click here.

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• Guests: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna), Justine Loulergue (PhD Student, Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris 1 & Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), María Gutiérrez Ruan (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil), Tatiana Fauconnet (PhD Student, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil) and Biancamaria Fontana (Emeritus Professor, Centre Walras Pareto, Unil)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, I share some conversations I had with some existing and old members of the Walras Pareto Centre (CWP) in Lausanne. These are raw conversations from researchers in the history of economics and political science that may help you feel less alone and might just help you figure some things out. Who knows?

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Loop of Life – V01 by RAME (RAMEofficial.com) via FreeSound (freesound.org/people/RokZRooM) under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-ND license.

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• Guests: Johan Östling, LUCK’s director, the two deputy directors Anna Nilsson Hammar and David Larsson Heidenblad, as well as a PhD student at the centre, Evelina Kallträsk.
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, I spoke to several members of the History of Knowledge Centre at the University of Lund, or LUCK for short.

We discuss what is the history of knowledge and how its approaches might be useful for historians of economics.

To check out their publications, as well as other opportunities that the centre has to offer, go here.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sounds by Alyonka and Sonically Sound, Retro Funk.

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• Guest: Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Bologna)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, I invited Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche to talk about her new book project on the history of discrimination in economics, partly based on her PhD thesis.

If you’re interested in her work, check out her website here.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sound by Alyonka.

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• Guest: François Allisson (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

In this episode, I invited François Allisson to talk to us about a game he made with some of his students called Sortons du capitalisme ! or Exit Capitalism! in English.

Thanks to Justine Loulergue, Thomas Bouchet, Etienne Furrer and Sina Badiei for agreeing to be recorded when we played the game at the Walras-Pareto Centre at the University of Lausanne.

The other games referred to in the podcast are KAPITAL and Class Struggle. To check out the history of Monopoly referred to at the end, listen here.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sounds by Sonically Sound, Retro Funk and Melokocool, Game Over.

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• Guests: Erik Bengtsson (Lund University), Pat Hudson (Cardiff University) and Keith Tribe (Tartu University)
• Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

As we heard in part one of our series on inequality, researchers looking at inequality urge people to look more on the micro level because the trends and causes are not universal across time and space. So in this second part, we look at why and how inequality goes up and down depending on where you look.

All the examples you will hear, in some way, critique and build upon Thomas Piketty’s comparative approach. We will hear from Erik Bengtsson, who studies the trends of inequality in Sweden. To check out Erik’s work, click here. We will also hear from Keith Tribe and his co-editor Pat Hudson talk about their collected work called The Contradictions of Capital in the 21^st century in which they build upon the renewed interest in the long run global development of wealth inequality stimulated by the publication of Piketty’s book Capital in the 21^st Century.

To watch the TED talk video on inequality featured at the beginning, go here.

Featured music (apart from the usual intro and outro music): Sounds by Dave JF, Atmosphere 12, and Jordan Powell, Erokia.

Finally, thanks to David Philippy for helping with production.