Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is hosted by historians of economic thought Jennifer Jhun, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, and Scott Scheall. Each month, the hosts discuss themes related to economics, its history and methodology, and its relevance to contemporary affairs.
Episode Eighty Two
Jennifer, François, and Çınla are joined by Laetitia Lenel, Professor of Cultural History of the Economic in the Institute of History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, to discuss some of her recent work on the role of narratives in economics.
9/15/2024 • 42 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode Eighty One
In this month's episode, Çınla, Jennifer, and François speak with Professor Cheryl Misak, University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Canadian Royal Society, and Guggenheim Fellow, about Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, her highly regarded biography of the influential mathematician, philosopher, and economist. Other topics include Professor Misak's work on Charles Sanders Peirce and the pragmatist tradition at the University of Cambridge.
7/15/2024 • 50 minutes, 42 seconds
Episode Eighty
François, Çınla, and Jennifer interview Till Düppe, Professor of Economics at Université du Québec à Montréal, about his work on lived epistemology, Gérard Debreu, Sidney Weintraub, and other topics.
6/15/2024 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode Seventy Nine
Çınla and Jenn chat with Helen McCabe, Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Nottingham, about John Stuart Mill and his attitude(s) toward socialism. Professor McCabe is author of John Stuart Mill, Socialist, published in 2021 by McGill-Queen's University Press.
5/15/2024 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode Seventy Eight
Jennifer, Çınla, and François are joined by Spencer Banzhaf, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Environmental & Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University, to discuss the history of environmental economics and, especially, his new book Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics.
4/15/2024 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode Seventy Seven
Çınla and François are joined by Kseniia Lopukh, Associate Professor of Economics at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, to discuss her work on the famous Ukrainian economist, Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, as well as the economic history of, and history of economic thought in, Ukraine.
3/15/2024 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode Seventy Six
François, Jennifer, and Çınla chat with George Tavlas about his new book The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960.
2/15/2024 • 57 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode Seventy Five
Çınla, François, and Jennifer discuss a number of recent additions to the literature. If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls): Macroeconomics under pressure: the feedback effects of economic expertise by Matthieu Renault Thorstein Veblen and Socialism by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Ukrainian Financial Reforms in 1917-1922 by Kseniia Lopukh
