Athens in the Alps
Meeting Direct Democracy at the Landsgemeinde of Glarus (4th May 2025/3rd May 2026) As historians of political thought, we stretch our imagination to figure out from remote sources how direct democracy might have worked...
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Kumarappa – The Economist from Tamil Nadu
January 4, 2025, marked the birth anniversary of J. C. Kumarappa – an economic thinker from Tamil Nadu (India) who extensively focused on the village economic development and economics of peace. An original thinker,...
The endless labour of democracy. In memory of Bernard Manin (1951-2024)
On the 10th December 2024 the University of Lausanne celebrates the life and work of the French political philosopher Bernard Manin, who died on the 1st November last. Manin had a special connection to...
Dialogisme et Analyse Positive du Discours
Une boîte à outils méthodologique pour les doctorant.e.s en histoire de la pensée économique et politique. Nous organisons un atelier mensuel sur les méthodes en histoire de la pensée économique et politique au Centre...
Shooting the Emperor: Historical Narratives and Contemporary Imagination
The release in November 2023 of Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon has attracted a considerable degree of attention and generated a flood of controversies in the media. Given the director’s reputation, any new production by...
The New Economics Nobel Laureate, Claudia Goldin!
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 goes to Claudia Goldin – the first women ever to get tenure at Harvard’s Economics Department in 1990 and the first...
Un manuel indien de macroéconomie à l’Unil
Une classe lausannoise de politologues a été initiée à la macroéconomie avec un manuel indien. Macroeconomics: An Introduction d’Alex M. Thomas, publié en 2021 chez Cambridge University Press, s’est avéré un manuel très innovant...
Doing Interviews with Alexandra Quack
A tool kit for PhD students in the History of Economics and Politics: Exploring Methods. We regularly organise workshops on different methods in the history of economics and politics at the Walras-Pareto Centre in...
Un travail passé sous silence : l’invisibilisation du travail féminin, de la cuisine aux institutions internationales, petit extrait du fonds d’archives de Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont
Qui a déjà entendu parler de Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont ? Cette chercheuse a travaillé dès les années cinquante jusqu’au début des années deux-mille sur la mesure du travail domestique non-marchand et sa prise en considération...
Vaccinating the Nation: the First Consul, Dr Guillotin and the No-Vax
In the light of present disputes over the anti-covid-19 vaccination, this remote historical episode, with its trail of propaganda, political opportunism, and ideological controversies, shows an oddly familiar landscape. But was vaccinating a whole...
