The ESHET Council offers honorary membership to distinguished scholars in the field of the history of economic thought. The list of Honorary Members is at https://www.eshet.net/honorary-members/.
Tony Aspromourgos has been nominated Honorary Member in 2024, and will give his lecture at the ESHET Annual Conference in Torino.
Intellectual History as a Mode of Social Science
Partly by reference to elements from my own body of research over four decades, the Lecture will consider how intellectual history can serve as a form of social science, via two channels: the (almost) inescapable ethical element in social science and the pursuit of alternatives to contemporary economic orthodoxies. The more important latter element is connected to the dependence of values upon facts. Behind all this lies the proposition that the relationship of social science to its intellectual history is qualitatively different from the relationship of (most) natural science to its intellectual history.
Tony Aspromourgos
University of Sydney, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)
Tony Aspromourgos is a graduate of the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne, Chicago and Sydney and lectured at the University of Sydney from 1985 to 2021.
He has been Emeritus Professor of Economics in the University of Sydney since 2019 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Professor Aspromourgos has published extensively in all the major history of economic thought journals, as well as in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Metroeconomica and Review of Political Economy, among other journals.
He is also the author of On the Origins of Classical Economics: Distribution and Value From William Petty to Adam Smith (Routledge, 1996), The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the Framing of Political Economy (Routledge, 2009) and most recently—building upon his decades of research into classical and Keynesian economics—Nature and Economic Society: a Classical-Keynesian Synthesis (Routledge, 2024).