CfP: Economic Rationalities
Call for Papers: Economic Rationalities
26-27 January 2014
Aarhus University
Denmark
Regimes of thought and legitimizations of action draw
upon systematized authorities of religious, juridical, moral, scientific and
increasingly economic reasoning. These authorities interrelate in various ways.
They compete to be the prime, societal authority; they supplant each other;
they borrow metaphors, concepts, practices; they subvert and change existing
languages. To address these interrelations ECORA invites interested scholars to
submit paper proposals on the historical study of economic rationality and the
struggles for authority between economic reasoning and other claims for
knowledge- and practice-authority in Western modernity.
Abstracts must be submitted to one of three parallel
streams:
The Renaissance
The
Enlightenment
American and Western European Capitalism
We invite scholars with an interest in the
history of economic thought to submit a paper proposal. We particularly
encourage scholars working with the interrelations between economic, religious
and/or scientific reasoning to participate as well as people understanding
their work as, or related to, what could called the history of economic
thought, intellectual history of capitalism, history of economic ideas, and
history of science and science studies.
Submission Guidelines
Please indicate which stream your proposal
refers to.
Deadline for paper proposal: September 1st
2013 (feedback on paper proposals September 15 2013).
Organizers
The conference is organized by the research
project ECORA ([
http://ecora.au.dk/)
located at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University funded by
the Velux Foundation.
Suggested stream topics
The Renaissance (1400-1750)
Early Modern Entrepreneurship; Trust and
Trade, From credito to gentlemanliness; Techniques and Practices; Financial
Philosophies; From Households to Powerhouses; Finances and Statesmanship; Lady
Credit; Virt˙ and Money; natural philosophy and economy; the role of
mathematics; usura and debt, medicine and money
The Enlightenment (ca. 1700-1840)
Political contexts of key economic theories;
changing discourses and meanings of money, credit, finance; strategies for
changing the role of states in commerce and finance; conceptions of ëfriendsí
and ëenemiesí of mankind; Changing patterns of consumption; Theories and
arguments on global economic orders; Conceptions of free (or unfree) markets;
The valuation of human life in economics; Insurance systems.
American and Western European Capitalism (ca.
1870-2000)
Key economic, social and political thinkers;
ideas about the market; the economist as public intellectual; economic
textbooks; ideas of the corporation; financialization; interest organizations
and their role in the production and spread of economic thinking;
legitimisation of economic action; changing discourses and meanings of money,
credit, finance; neoliberalism; financial crisis; comparative studies.
Please see the conference website for additional
information:
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Jakob Bek-Thomsen, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute of Culture and Society
Philosophy and History of Ideas
Aarhus University
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7
Building 1465, room 630
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Phone: +45 871 62285
Mobile: +45 26179655
Email: idejbt@hum.au.dk
Skype ID: jakobbekthomsen