The Venue

Aarhus University is one of Denmarks

two major universities, and located in
the capital of Jutland in mainland
Denmark. Despite being a relatively new
university (1928) it houses a wide range
of world-class research and has
produced two Nobel laureates.
Access is easy from the close-by
international airport Tirstrup with
transfers to both Copenhagen and
Billund.
Contact
Assistant Professor, Jakob Bek-Thomsen, PhD
Email: idejbt@hum.au.dk
Phone: +45 45 871 62285

ECORA History of Economic
Rationality
ECORA is an ongoing research project located at the University of
Aarhus and funded by the Veluxfonden. The overall theme of the
project is the historical study of economic rationality and the
struggles for authority between economic, religious and
scientific ideas in Western modernity. The ECORA project
seeks to strengthen humanities research into the role played by
economic ideas in society and their interplay with religion and
science. Its research methods and questions are mainly
derived from the discipline of intellectual history, combining
pragmatism, conceptual history, history of scientific thought and
economic sociology.
Economic Rationalities
!
Economic reasoning as
knowledge and practice authority

Friday 24
th
- Saturday 25
th
January, Aarhus
University, Denmark
2014



Submission guidelines
Please submit your abstract proposals (max 300 words) as a PDF file
to ecora2014@hum.au.dk
Please indicate which stream your proposal refers to.
EXTENDED deadline for paper proposal: September 20th 2013
(feedback on paper proposals October 1st 2013).
#CfP #Keynotes
Economic struggles in history
Regimes of thought and legitimizations of action draw upon
systematized authorities of religious, juridical, moral, scientific and
increasingly economic reasoning. These authorities interrelate in
various ways. They compete to be the prime, societal authority; they
supplant each other; they borrow metaphors, concepts, practices;
they subvert and change existing languages. To address these
interrelations ECORA invites interested scholars to submit paper
proposals on the historical study of economic rationality and
the struggles for authority between economic reasoning
and other claims for knowledge- and practice-authority in
Western modernity.
Abstracts must be submitted to one of three parallel streams:
Conference streams
The Renaissance (ca. 1400-1750)
Early Modern Entrepreneurship; Trust and Trade,; Techniques and
Practices; Oikonomia and Statesmanship; Virt and Money; natural
philosophy and economy; the role of mathematics; usura and debt;
etc.
The Enlightenment (ca. 1700-1840)
Political contexts of key economic theories; changing discourses and
meanings of money, credit, finance; conceptions of friends and
enemies of mankind; Changing patterns of consumption; etc.
American and Western European Capitalism (ca. 1870-2000)
Ideas about the market; the economist as public intellectual; ideas of
the corporation; financialization; interest organizations and their
role in the production and spread of economic thinking;
neoliberalism; financial crisis; etc.
Mark Bevir
Mark Bevir is a Professor of
Political Science and Director of
the Center for British Studies at the
University of California, Berkeley.
He has written extensively on
subjects ranging from the history
of political thought, to governance,
markets, and political science.
Richard Whatmore
Richard Whatmore is Professor of
Intellectual History & the History
of Political Thought and Director of
the Sussex Centre for Intellectual
History at the University of Sussex.
He has published numerously on a
wide range of related subjects from
commerce to political economy and
revolutions.
Catherine Secretan, Director of Research at the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique in France (CNRS)

Sophus A. Reinert, Harvard Business School

Alex Preda, Kings College London

# Confirmed Speakers