After many distinguished years in the LSE Economic History Department, Professor Mary Morgan is retiring this year. To celebrate Mary’s accomplishments and contributions to the LSE, we are hosting a ...

The study of the History of Economic Thought traces the evolution of economic ideas across centuries, from classical analyses of market dynamics and moral philosophy to contemporary methodological ...

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...

1. For several years, I have been teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard. I always start with this book, and the students always love it. Most economics books are bloodless. They give us ideas, but ...

Australian economics has lost one of its most internationally renowned scholars with the passing of Geoffrey Harcourt AC at the age of 90. He was also one of its most prolific. He wrote more than 30 ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...