Just a heads up that I will be blogging less frequently these next few days as I will be travelling this weekend to attend the first-ever joint meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES), which will take place next week (May 26-29) on the Campus Saint-Jean d’Angély of the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice, France. For full reference, here is the complete program of this historic conference.

It will be a fun but busy week for me because I have been invited to join three panels during the conference. On Wednesday, May 27, I will be presenting an updated version of my paper on Ronald Coase’s “reciprocal harm” model (“Coase’s fable”, Session D9). Then, on Thursday, May 28, I will be presenting a chapter from my forthcoming book with Salim Rashid (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Beyond Das Adam Smith Problem (“Wealth, Liberty, and the Invisible Hand”, Session E12). And last but not least, on Friday, May 29, I will be presenting a work-in-progress I am writing with Alain Alcouffe (University of Toulouse) about Adam Smith’s visit to Geneva during his grand tour years (“Adam Smith’s Encounters in Geneva: 1765-1766”, Session J7).

In addition, I will be a discussant on three papers: How markets became organizations: the entangled history of two concepts by Edward Nik-Khah (Roanoke College); Errors in the early citations of Engel’s Law by Seri Raffaello (InsIDE LAB, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria); and The early political economy of Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria by Ferri Claudio (University of Siena). I will have more to say about the these sundry scholarly papers and post additional updates and details from the conference next week.