About

Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast covers diverse topics from the history of economics, economic thought, and economic ideas such as new research and methodological questions.

The podcast hosts are Reinhard Schumacher, Maria Bach, Juan C. A. AcostaChristina LaskaridisCamila Orozco Espinel, and Erwin Dekker.

  • Reinhard Schumacher earned his PhD in economics in 2016 from the University of Potsdam. His research interests include the history of economic ideas, international political economy, trade theory and policy, and development economics. His publications in the history of economic thought deal with the history of trade theory, Scottish Enlightenment, the early Austrian School of Economics, and American Institutionalism. In his PhD thesis he deals with Adam Smith’s theory of foreign trade and economic development. He was a Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University in 2014 and a visiting professor at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in 2017.
  • Maria Bach did her PhD at King’s College London in International Political Economy and is currently a Post-doctoral researcher at the Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris. Her thesis analysed how Indian Political Economists constructed an idea of development at the turn of the 19th century. Before starting her PhD, Maria was a consultant at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris working on a project entitled New Approaches to Economic Challenges. Maria completed her MSc in Development Economics in 2012 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and her BA in International Economics and Applied Mathematics at the American University of Paris in 2011.
  • Juan Acosta is a postdoctoral researcher a the economics department of Universidad de los Andes, where he teaches 20th century history of macroeconomics and carries out research on the history of macroeconometric modeling and the evolution of economic analysis at the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. He finished his PhD in economics at the University of Lille in 2019 and was a Research Fellow at Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy in 2016 and 2019.
  • Christina Laskaridis is a PhD candidate in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her PhD analyses the theory and practice of debt sustainability within the International Monetary Fund; her research interests include the history of monetary and debt debates. Christina enjoys engaging students with economics through an appreciation of its historical development and evolving controversies, and has held a Senior Teaching Fellow post at SOAS and taught at UCL. Christina completed her MSc in Political Economy of Development at SOAS and her BA in Economics and Politics at the University of York.
  • Camila Orozco Espinel is an interdisciplinary scholar. She has five years economics degree with an emphasis in mathematics from the National University of Colombia, and a Master’s degree in history of economic thought and philosophy of economics from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Camila is currently a doctoral candidate in sociology at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). Her research focuses on 20th Century history of economics, primarily the post-Second World War quest of the discipline for scientific authority. She recently published in the Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines “Homogenize the profession to do science? Economics in the United States after World War II”. She also pursues research on women economists in Latin America and careers determinants of undergraduate and graduate female students in economics.
  • Erwin Dekker is a post-doctoral researcher at the Erasmus School of Economics where he is working on the intellectual biography of Nobel laureate and Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen. He is also assistant professor in cultural economics at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication and has been post-doctoral fellow at the Economics Department of George Mason University. He has recently published ‘The Viennese students of Civilization’ (2016) with Cambridge University Press. His research focuses on the intersection of art and culture with economics. He has published in the fields of cultural economics, economic methodology and intellectual history, and he is currently working on the moral frameworks which sustain markets.

The intro since episode 11 features Paul Krugman’s Nobel Banquet speech in 2008. © Nobel Media AB For full speech, see https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economics/2008/krugman/speech/

The feautred music since episode 11 onwards is “Knowing Nothing” by Mid-Air Machine. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/AskAgain/Drama_King_Action_Orchestra/Knowing_Nothing

The featured music in episodes 1-10 in this podcast is Tambourins by Philippe Rameau.