Discussing Methods: The History of Economic Thought as the History of Practices with Thomas Stapleford, Episode 2

Guest: Thomas Stapleford, University of Notre Dame Hosted and produced by Maria Bach Additional interviewer: Christina Laskaridis Additional guests: Gonçalo L. Fonseca and Peter H. Bent In this episode, we briefly talk about methods in the History of Economic Thought, before discussing with Thomas Stapleford his paper Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views Through the Lens of Practice. In this paper, Stapleford argues for approaching the history of economic thought as a history of practices. This paper was also on of the topic of a one-day workshop for young scholars organised this May by Maria and Reinhard before the annual conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Information about the workshop can be found here. A list of the literature mentioned and discussed in the episode: Bakhtin, M. 1986. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Trans. Vern W. McGee. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Bakhtin, M. 1992. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, Austin: University of Texas Press. Dalston, L. and Galison, P., 2007. Objectivity. MIT Press. Link Foucault, M. 1982. The archaeology of knowledge. (A. M. Sheridan Smith, Trans.). New York: Pantheon Books. Foucault, M. 1988. Politics, philosophy, culture: interviews and other writings, 1977-1984. (L. D. Kritzman, Ed.). New York: Routledge. Holquist, M. 1990. Dialogism: Bakhtin and his World. London; New York: Routledge. Stapleford, T.A., 2017. Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views Through the Lens of Practice. In Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: Including a Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of Economics (pp. 113-145). Emerald Publishing Limited. Link Warwick, A. 1992. Cambridge mathematics and Cavendish physics: Cunningham, Campbell and Einstein’s relativity, 1905-1911. Part I: The uses of theory. Part II: Comparing traditions in Cambridge physics. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A, 23, 625–656. Wylie, A., 1992. The interplay of evidential constraints and political interests: recent archaeological research on gender. American antiquity, 57(1), pp.15-35.