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Second Annual Conference of ISHET (2025)

This is the second annual conference of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET). ISHET has been established to revive teaching and research in the sub-field of history of economic thought (HET) in India. 

Venue

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D)

Date

October 11, 2025 to

October 12, 2025

Contact

ishet2025@gmail.com

Keynote  Lecture

Prof. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza", Italy and Fellow and Foreign Secretary of the Italian Academy of Lincei. Former President of the European Society for the History of Economic and the Italian Society for the History of Political Economy and presently she is Distinguished Fellow and Vice-President of the History of Economics Society (USA). She has been Visiting Professor in several universities in Europe, Japan, Mexico and United States She has worked on classical monetary theory, the Cambridge School of Economics, and Keynesian economics. She has published more than 110 articles in journals and books, plus authoring or editing 25 books. Collections of her essays have been published by Routledge (Fighting market failure, 2012) and by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Essays in Keynesian Persuasion, 2019) and Palgrave Macmillan (Economics Theories, Protagonists and Facts, 2025)

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Themes

The conference welcomes research papers on topics related to the history of economic thought. An illustrative list of the themes is provided below: 

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Indian Economic Thought

Kautilya, Khaldun, William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Harriet Taylor Mill, Augustin Cournot, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx, Dadhabhai Naoroji, B. R. Ambedkar, Wassily Leontief, Piero Sraffa, Krishna Bharadwaj 

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Teaching the History of Economic Thought

Integrating HET in micro and macro, pluralism and HET, HET and critical pedagogy

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Economic Thought of Individuals

Feminist, Ecological, Labour, Caste, Finance, Money, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Inequality, Mathematics in economics

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Methods in the History of Economic Thought

Archival strategies, internalist approach, externalist approach, textual analysis, historical reconstruction, oral history

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Regional Economic Thought

Indian economic thought, Japanese economic thought, Russian economic thought, French economic thought, African economic thought, American and Latin American economic thought, British economic thought

Important Dates

 Call for papers

open

May 15, 2025

Deadline for paying the registration fees

Aug 15, 2025

Deadline for abstracts submssions

Jun 30, 2025

Deadline for submitting full papers

Sep 30, 2025

Notification of acceptance

Jul 15, 2025

ISHET 2025

Conference

Oct 11-12, 2025

Registration Fees

These are being collected to partially defray the costs of food, venue and conference collateral. In the event of a surplus, it will be transferred to ISHET's fund. ​

  1. Associate Professors & Professors: Rs. 4000

  2. Assistant Professors & Working Professionals: Rs. 3000

  3. PhD candidates & Retired academics: Rs. 2000

  4. BA/MA students: Rs. 1000

Tentative Schedule

Oct 11, 2025 (Day 1)

9:00AM–11:00AM
Inauguration and keynote lecture
11:00AM–11:15AM
Tea Break
11:15AM–1:00PM
Parallel sessions - 1
1:00PM–2:30PM
Lunch Break
2:30PM–4:00PM
Parallel sessions - 2
4:00PM–5:00PM
Panel Discussion

Oct 12, 2025 (Day 2)

9:00AM–11:00AM
Parallel sessions - 3
11:00AM–11:15AM
Parallel sessions - 4
11:15AM–1:00PM
Panel Discussion
1:00PM–2:30PM
Lunch Break
2:30PM–4:00PM
Parallel sessions - 5
4:00PM–4:15PM
Tea Break
4:15PM–5:00PM
Valedictory Session

Committee

Organising Committee

Convenor: Ishan Anand (IIT-Delhi)

Scientific Committee

Ishan Anand (IIT-Delhi)

R. Ashwath (ISHET)

Sharmin Khodaiji (Jindal Global University)

Alex M. Thomas (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)

Additional Information

  1. We expect around 150-200 participants from India and abroad to present papers at the conference.

  2. We expect to accommodate about 150 outstation participants in and around IIT Delhi. 

  3. Select papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.

For any general queries, contact the website officer: thairahmad999@gmail.com

ISHET was informally established in 2023 and formally registered as a society in Bengaluru on 31st August 2024.
Registration number: DRB3/SOR/238/2024-2025.

Patrons

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