International relations

AISPE aims to create and reinforce its partnership with the other HET societies by promoting sessions during their international conferences, hosting their sessions in the AISPE conferences, and boosting the mutual exchange of ideas amongst their members.

AISPE session presented at the 20th Charles Gide Society Conference. June 20-22,  2024

Interpretative paradigms on the labor market in 19 th century
Chair: Letizia Pagliai (University of Torino)

Alfonso Giuliani, CES and PHARE (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Civil Economy and Labor Market in Melchiorre Gioia
Letizia Pagliai (University of Torino), Solidarity and Labor Market in J.-C. L. Sismondi
Alessandro Le Donne (University of  Genova) and Riccardo Soliani (University of Genova), Welfare, equity, distributive justice: the thought of J-B Say from Olbie (1800) to the Cours complet d’économie politique pratique (1828-29)
Filippo Pietrini (University of  Pisa), Where is Mauss’ Gift and Counter Gift Today?

AISPE session presented at the 27th ESHET Conference. May 9-11, 2024
Debates on welfare state

Elena Laurenzi (University of Salento) and Manuela Mosca (University of Salento), Before the welfare state. The social work of a women’s network in Italy
Claudia Sunna (University of Salento), Demographic decline and the women’s question: the synthesis of the Fabian Society towards a new model of welfare state
Cosma Orsi (University of Catania), Just and efficient distribution. The intriguing case of social dividend in the era of high theory
Paolo Silvestri (University of Catania), “Afraid to be free”, or (Welfare) “dependency as desideratum”. On Buchanan’s challenge to liberal thought

AISPE session presented at the annual Conference  of the American Economic Association.  January 5-7, 2024
Gender issues, feminism and economics in the history of economic thought
Chair: Manuela Mosca (University of Salento)
Edith Kuiper (State University of New York, New Paltz), Towards Feminist Histography of Economics
Kirsten Madden (University of Millersville) and Joseph Persky (University of Illinois, Chicago), Anna Doyle Wheeler on the Conditions and Consequences of Gender Equality
Ann Mari Mai (Lincoln University of Nebraska), Gender, the ‘Old Boy Network’ and the American Economic Review in the Early Years
Giandomenica Becchio (University of Torino) and Manuela Mosca (University of Salento), Rethinking the History of Economics from a Gender Perspective: The Italian Case

AISPE-STOREP Joint Session Institutionalim & the History of Economic Thought presented at 8th Conference Winir. September 11, 2023
Convenor: Paolo Silvestri (University of Catania, Italy)
Chair: Maria Lissowska (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
Stefan Kesting* (University of Leeds, UK), What are the Moral and Ontological Foundations of Heterodox Schools in Economics? Normative Tensions or Overlapping Value Systems?
Michael Jacobs* (University of Sheffield, UK), On the Post-Neoliberal Paradigm Shift: Polycrisis, Institutionalism and the Unification of Heterodox Economics
Salvatore Spagano* (University of Catania, Italy), Institutionalist Clues in Celso Furtado
Maurizio Caserta* (University of Catania, Italy), The Right to Work and the Obligation to Contribute: Allocating the Responsibility

AISPE session presented at 26th annual Conference ESHET. June 1-3, 2023
From Invisibility to Epistemological Subjects: Women in Economic Thought
Chair: Mosca Manuela, University of Salento
Mosca Manuela (University of Salento), Pareto and the woman question
Claudia Rotondi (University Cattolica of Milano), In the name of equality. Women and Work in the Italian Constituent Phase
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt,  Do feminist economists form a unified community? A history of IAFFE presidents cognitive interactions and trajectories

AISPE session presented at the Charles Gide Society Conference, Paris, July 7-9, 2022
Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Sergio Cremaschi, The argumentative structure of The Wealth of Nations
Fabrizio Simon, Adam Smith and the reforming spirit of the 18^th century
Stefano Fiori, Metaphors of Imagination in Smith and Hume

AISPE session presented at the HES Conference,  Minneapolis, June 18, 2022
Women and Economics during the Progressive Era
Chair: Manuela Mosca, University of Salento, AISPE President
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt and David Philippy, American Home Economists’ Progressive Science of Consumption and the High-Cost-of-Living Problem
Guillaume Vallet, Prostitution as an “androcentric” economic institution of capitalism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s thought
Giandomenica Becchio, The debate on women’s enfranchisement among women economists of the Progressive Era

AISPE session presented at the  ESHET Conference, Padua, June 10, 2022
Women and economic thought in Italy (1850-1950):
Monika Poettinger, Emilia Peruzzi (1827-1900)
Manuela Mosca e Elena Laurenzi, Maria Pasolini Ponti (1856-1938)
Francesca Dal Degan, Iris Cutting Origo (1902-1988)
Simone Misiani, Angela Zucconi (1914-2000)