Activities

Manuela Mosca, President of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia del Pensiero Economico (AISPE), Saverio Maria Fratini President of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (STOREP), Marco Doria, President of the Società Italiana degli Storici Economici (SISE) Giuseppe De Luca, President of the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Storia Economica (ARiSE) have sent a letter to CRUI and MUR for a Doctorate in Historical-Eco…

AISPE is pleased to announce that Duke University Press offers its members discounted subscriptions to History of Political Economy at a rate of $70 for regular members and $35 for students and young scholars. AISPE Board is very grateful to HOPE Editors for this generous offer: a great opportunity for our AISPE community of scholars/historians of economics/economic thought. During the process of subscription you just need to let Duke University Press know that you are an AISPE memb…

The PRIN The Economic Thought of Italian Women (1750-1999): Methodological Issues, Ideas, Impact, International Connections, a Census and an Online Database has been funded. Manuela Mosca (University of Salento), President of AISPE, is the Principal Investigator. Giandomenica Becchio is head of the research unit at the University of Turin and Marcella Corsi is head of the research unit at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome.

AISPE supports and promotes research on Italian women who, throughout history, influenced and engaged in debates on various economic issues, not only in academia and economic institutions, but also in salons, among philanthropists, in political, emancipationist and underground movements, in women’s associations and magazines, and entrepreneurial circles. Final workshop_Women between economic facts and ideas in Italy (1750-1950). Online, November 20, 2023 Second workshop_Women between eco…

The Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa, in partnership with the Interuniversity Centre for Documentation on Italian Economic Thought (CIPEI, https://cipei.unipi.it/), offers students from Italian universities the opportunity to carry out curricular internships within the “LexEcon” research project of relevant national interest (PRIN), organised by the Universities of Pisa, Padova and Palermo. Please find more details in the attached file prin_2022_stage_…

AISPE invites scholars to participate in the initiative with self-produced video lessons on the themes of the History of Economic Thought, by choosing (or adding) one or more topics from those not covered yet: 00. Introduction by A. Magliulo 01. Greco-Roman thought 02. Judeo-Christian thought by M. Bianchini 03. Islamic thought by M. Bianchini 04. Continuity between Aristotle and Plato by M. Bianchini 05. Mercantilism and economic nat…

AISPE is pleased to announce the fourth series of the presentation of new member volumes. The calendar is available here Presentation Becchio Presentation Avallone-Strangio Presentation Alberti Presentation Zappia Presentation Simon Presentation Tedesco Presentation Lampa Presentation Gioia Presentation Pisanelli Presentation Mosca

The Colloquia doctoralia will resume on 29 May 2025 at 18:00. The full calendar is available here. The link to participate will be sent out as each session approaches.

Barucci on PhD in EHHE Co-signers: Giuliano Amato, Pierluigi Ciocca, Claudio de Vincenti, Elsa Fornero, Giorgio La Malfa, Romano Prodi, Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Paolo Savona, Ignazio Visco Individual subscriptions 1. Angus Deaton, FBA HonFRSE, 2015 Nobel prize in economics 2. Juan Acosta, Assistant professor, Universidad del Valle 3. Michele Alacevich, Professore ordinario di Storia del Pensiero Economico, Università di Bologna 4. Manfredi Alberti, Ricercatore in Storia Economica, Istit…

AISPE is inviting nominations for the Awards that will be announced at the next AISPE Conference, to be held on October 3-5 2024, in Rome during our General Assembly. The winners will receive 500 euros and a diploma. Nominations should be sent as soon as possible, and not later than May 31, 2024 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The BEST BOOK AWARD for the best book in the history of economic thought published during 2022 or 2023. Self-nominations are accepted. The BEST ARTIC…

AISPE is pleased to announce the third series of the presentation of new member volumes. The calendar is avalaible here Presentation Baranzini-Besomi Presentation Giocoli Presentation Tedesco Presentation Misiani Presentation De Marco Presentation Morselli Presentation McCloskey Presentation Timponelli

In the first annual webinar series on the Global History of Economic Thought, we sought to explore Europe as a whole, rather than as the sum of 27 or more nation-states, in search of some key features of her ‘unity in diversity’. In the next annual series, we would like to go beyond Europe while maintaining the two basic assumptions of our approach to global history, namely: 1. The history of economic thought is much more than a pure history of economic theories. It also shows how theories are…

The winner of the AISPE Research Grant 2023 is Mirek Tobiáš Hošman. AISPE invites applications for early career scholars research initiatives. Applications are open to AISPE members only. Early career scholars are intended as PhD students young scholars who completed their PhD between the previous seven years and the date of the deadline which is 15 November 2023. One research project will be funded up to an amount of € 1000. The duration of the research project…

The aim of this webinar series is to initiate a reflection on the contribution that the history of economic thought can give to the global history. We shall start by exploring Europe as transnational community with the intention to extend the  investigation to other supranational communities living in Africa, America, Arab world, Asia. More information and programme: Towards-a-Global-HET_ A webinar series

AISPE invites applications for early career scholars research initiatives. Applications are open to AISPE members only. Early career scholars are intended as PhD students young scholars who completed their PhD between 2017 and the date of the deadline which is 15 September 2024. One research project will be funded up to an amount of € 1000. The duration of the research project is one year: projects must be completed by 30 October 2025. A final report is required. Proposals (up to 1500 words…

AISPE presents members’ new volumes. The full calendar of the second series is available in the attached poster: Second series of presentations List of videos: Presentation Barucci Presentation Mattei Presentation Masini Presentation Bellino-Nerozzi Presentation Marcuzzo-Paesani Presentation Magliulo Presentation Alacevich-Asso Presentation Maes-Pasotti Presentation Bruni

Endorsing the initiative of the Network of Italian Universities for Peace, AISPE expresses its closeness and solidarity with female students of Iranian nationality enrolled at Italian universities. More generally, solidarity is extended to all Iranian women and men who are courageously protesting. runipace for Iranian women

Considering the events that are taking place in Ukraine, AISPE endorses the attached document signed by numerous members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other intellectuals who strongly condemn the military aggression. Anti-war statement by Russian scientists

AISPE and STOREP invite members of the two societies to submit papers related to the theme of the WINIR conference, which will take place in Catania on 20-23 September 2023. Proposals should be submitted by 18 May 2023. All information is available here: WINIR Conference AISPE-STOREP Joint Session CfP Def. (1)

In cooperation with Aispe, MinervaLab (Sapienza University of Rome) presents the book A Herstory of Economics of Edith Kuiper (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Herstory+of+Economics-p-9781509538430). Manuela Mosca and Rebeca Gomez Betancourt dialogue with the author. The registration of the event, which took place online on 13 October 2022, 5pm, is avalaible here: A Herstory of Economics – Edith Kuiper

At the General Assembly, held online on 14 October 2022, AISPE announced the winners of the following awards: Best Book Award: Ivo Maes, Robert Triffin. A life, Oxford, OUP, 2021 Committee: Antonio Magliulo (President), Fabio Masini, Claudia Sunna Best Article Award: Bruce Caldwell, The Road to Serfdom After 75 years, Journal of Economic Literature, 58:3, 2020, 720-748 Committee: Pier Francesco Asso (President), Giandomenica Becchio, Gianfra…

25th ESHET Annual Conference will take place on 9th-11th June 2022 in Italy at the University of Padua. Theme of the Conference: Markets, Productivity and Happiness in a Historical Perspective https://www.eshet-conference.net/padova AISPE will present the session “Women and economic thought in Italy (1850-1950)” Monika Poettinger, Emilia Peruzzi (1827-1900) Manuela Mosca and Elena Laurenzi, Maria Pasolini Ponti (1856-1938) Francesca Dal Degan,  Iris Cutt…

The 19th STOREP Annual Conference will take place at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy)  from the 26th to the 28th of May 2022. Topic “Economics and the Economic System: The Ecological Transition”. https://www.storep.org/wp/19th-annual-storep-conference-26-28-may-2022/ AISPE will present the session “Liberal democracy and economics in the Italian tradition” Manuela Mosca – Giovanni Pavanelli, The German Translation of De Viti de Marco’s “P…

The Società Italiana Storia dell’Economia (SISE) and the Associazione Italiana Storia del Pensiero Economico (AISPE) invite post-doc researchers and scholars in History of Economics and Economic History to propose a paper presentation, which would be discussed during the Colloquia Doctoralia/ Post-doc Webinars organized within our scientific community. Meeting schedule is under preparation. The webinars will be held in two sessions: May–Ju…

The research project LexEcon, led by AISPE Board member, Marco Guidi, has been granted by Italian Research Project. LexEcon project had scored 97.3 out of 100. Congratulations to Marco and other members involved!

From October 2021 AISPE has adopted a code of conduct. It can be found on the menu, under the heading “About us”.