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Règlement de l’allocation de recherche AFHE en l’honneur de Jean Heffer

Objet

L’AFHE a décidé d’offrir une allocation de recherche à hauteur de 1000 euros pour financer une mission de dépouillement en archives pour son congrès 2019.

L’allocation est dédiée cette année à la mémoire de Jean Heffer.

Critères d’éligibilité

Peuvent candidater les étudiants inscrits en Master 2 et en doctorat, en France ou dans un pays francophone, et travaillant sur un sujet d’histoire économique, sans restriction de période.

Les pièces à fournir sont :

  • une lettre du directeur de recherches justifiant l’intérêt de la mission.
  • un projet de recherche (6 000 signes)
  • une liste détaillée des archives à consulter

Les candidats doivent être adhérents de l’association à jour de leur cotisation.

Calendrier

Les propositions sont à envoyer à l’adresse de la secrétaire générale de l’AFHE : anne.conchon@univ-paris1.fr en indiquant dans l’objet du message “Allocation Archives AFHE 2019” jusqu’au 30 novembre 2019.

Jury

Le lauréat sera désigné par le comité directeur de l’AFHE

Conditions

Le lauréat, s’engage à :

  • présenter son projet de recherche dans le cadre du congrès de l’AFHE en quelques minutes.
  • rédiger un compte-rendu de sa mission dans un délai de trois mois après la fin de sa mission pour diffusion sur le site de l’AFHE
  • participer au congrès suivant de l’AFHE pour exposer le résultats de ses recherches.

Le versement s’effectuera sur présentation du titre de transport. L’allocation couvrira le billet de train ou d’avion et des per diem (groupe 1 de http://pauillac.inria.fr/~leifer/ijeuro/#info) calculés en fonction de la longueur du séjour, pour un maximum de 1000 euros.  Elle sera versée avant le début du séjour.

Bien que l’allocation soit cumulable avec une autre subvention, le lauréat s’engage à ne pas demander un double remboursement pour les mêmes dépenses.

 

Plus de détails sur le congrès : https://afhe.hypotheses.org/11738
L’inscription est obligatoire : https://forms.gle/rECXZH8hjNQTKbqu6
Pour adhérer à l’AFHE : https://afhe.hypotheses.org/category/actualite-de-lafhe/adherer

Autour d’Alain Dewerpe 30 janvier 2017

 le lundi 30 janvier à partir de 9 h 30, salle des Conseils A et B, au 1er sous-sol de l’EHESS, 190 avenue de France, 75013 Paris. En voici le programme.
 Autour d’Alain Dewerpe
30 janvier 2017

 

Accueil du Centre de recherches historiques
Les mondes de l’industrie
Maurice Aymard : Entre histoire économique et histoire sociale : la protoindustrialisation.
Atelier François Simiand : Alain Dewerpe au travail.
Patrick Fridenson : Mutations de la grande entreprise en contexte italien : Ansaldo.

Prolongements
Caroline Moriceau : La santé au travail : un enjeu de société au croisement des savoirs dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Déjà.
Elisabeth Weinberg de Touchet : De l’Ansaldo à Yokosuka : naissance d’une grande industrie au Japon.

Le traitement de l’espace
Jean Boutier : L’anthropologie historique spatialisée d’Alain Dewerpe.
Marie-Vic Ozouf : Maîtriser l’espace public. Chrono-topographie anthropologique d’un affrontement, Charonne (8 février 1962).

Anthropologie de l’Etat
Pascal Engel : Alain Dewerpe et l ‘histoire dormante du secret.
Jacques Revel : Charonne. La violence d’Etat.

Le mercredi 12 octobre 2016 à 19 heures se tiendra à l’Institut culturel italien de Paris, 50 rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris une rencontre en hommage à la mémoire d’Alberto Tenenti.
Y sera présenté le volume des Actes du Colloque international organisé par le Collège de France les 9 et 10 novembre 2012 à l’occasion du 10ème anniversaire de sa disparition, le 11 novembre 2002, à Paris :
“La Renaissance d’Alberto Tenenti (1924-2002). Portrait intellectuel d’un historien franco-italien”, Essais réunis par Maurice Aymard, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles et Carlo Ossola, Studi Veneziani, N.S. LXXII (2015).
Interviendront Maurice Aymard, François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, Yves Hersant et Carlo Ossola

Rappelons, parmi les ouvrages d’histoire économique et sociale d’Alberto Tenenti:

Naufrages, corsaires et assurances maritimes à Venise (1592-1609), Paris, Bibliothèque générale de l’École pratique des hautes études, 1959
Venezia e i corsari, 1580-1615, Bari, Laterza, 1961
L’Italia del Quattrocento : economia e società, Laterza, 1996

Rolande Trempé (1916-2016)

Les mineurs de Carmaux 1848-1914 (Editions Ouvrières, 1971),  Les trois batailles du charbon 1936-1947 (La Découverte, 1989) ou encore son chapitre de  La France ouvrière, tome 1 : Des origines à 1920 (Editions sociales, 1993) sont des textes qui ont marqué l’histoire économique.

Rolande Trempé, historienne des mondes du travail, historienne de Jaurès, historienne des femmes, Résistante et historienne de la Résistance, militante encore et toujours, est décédée subitement hier. Elle allait avoir cent ans le 31 mai.

Au-delà de la grande tristesse qui est celle de ses amis de l’Université de Toulouse et d’ailleurs, qui est aussi la mienne (étudiant, j’avais été plongé par Jean Bouvier dans les mines de charbon, ce qui m’avait valu de rencontrer Rolande Trempé et d’être ébloui par elle), je voudrais signaler que l’on peut l’entendre ou la voir sur le web, dans des programmes passionnants.

Par exemple :

 

Et vous indiquer deux autres manières de connaître la vie et l’étendue de l’oeuvre de Rolande Trempé :
– l’entretien que Rolande Trempé avait accordé fin janvier à Marianne Debouzy, Ingrid Hayes, Michel Pigenet et moi paraîtra dans le numéro d’avril-juin 2016 du Mouvement Social ;
– la notice biographique que le Dictionnaire créé par Jean Maitron avait choisi de lui consacrer, oeuvre de Michelle Perrot, paraîtra prochainement dans le dernier tome de la série 1940-1968 du Maitron aux Editions de l’Atelier.

Patrick Fridenson

Disparition de Douglass C. North

A la suite de  la disparition de Douglass North,  qui reçut avec Robert Fogel en 1993 le Prix de la Banque de Suède en sciences économiques en mémoire d’Alfred Noble – dit Prix Nobel
d’économie –, de nombreux hommages ont été rendu à celui qui a marqué l’histoire économique et l’histoire de la pensée économique par ses travaux et ses méthodes d’analyse. Ci-dessous une nécrologie parue sur E.H.net.

Douglass C. North passed away at the age of 95 at his home
in Benzonia, Michigan. He was among the most important and influential economic historians and economists of the late 20th century. He will be deeply missed by his family, friends, colleagues, and students. Douglass Cecil North was born on Nov. 5, 1920, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of three children. He attended the University of California-Berkeley, graduating in 1942. He received his PhD from Berkeley in 1952. He began teaching at the University of Washington Seattle in 1950, and in 1983 moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where he remained a professor for the rest of his career. He was co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert Fogel. He is survived by his wife Elisabeth Case and his three sons Douglass, Christopher, and Malcom.
The following description of his intellectual accomplishments are taken from John Wallis “Persistence and Change: The Evolution of Douglass C. North,” in Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North.” Edited by Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened. Cambridge University Press, 2014. North long emphasized the importance of history and of neo-classical economics. He criticizes both disciplines for their complacency about the adequacy of the current conceptual and methodological consensus on how history or economics should be done. He always operated within a framework of individuals who act intentionally (neo-classical economics matters) and who perceive the world through cognitive lenses that are part inherited from their culture and part derived from their own experience (history matters). Individual actions are governed by interests shaped by relative prices, endowments, and constraints (institutions) as well as by perceptions of how the world around us works (cognition and beliefs). Social outcomes are the sum of individual actions, but the summation process is not a simple adding up, since interactions between individual decisions and beliefs critically influence the behavior of everyone.

Continuer la lecture de Disparition de Douglass C. North

Hommages à Alan S. Milward

Alan Steele Milward. Historian, Economist, and Political Theorist
Multidisciplinary Research Workshop jointly organised by the Max Weber Programme and the Alcide De Gasperi Centre

16 December 2015, 5-7 pm

Max Weber Common Room, Badia Fiesolana, European University Institute, Florence. Luc-André Brunet (HEC), Emmanuel Comte (RSCAS), Ricardo Estrada (ECO)

Abstract:
This workshop investigates the interdisciplinary dimension of the work of Alan Steele Milward (1935-2010), who has shaped decisively the historiography of European Integration. The workshop intends to improve our understanding of key social science issues and methods through better knowledge of the work of Alan S. Milward. Considering that we can hardly learn from our predecessors, because the issues we research and the methods we use are changing fast, is widespread, but misleading. Continuer la lecture de Hommages à Alan S. Milward

Journée d’hommage Louis Bergeron 23 octobre

Journée d’hommage à Louis BERGERON –

Vendredi 23 octobre 2015  

EHESS – Amphi du 105, bd Raspail 75006-PARIS

Il y a tout juste un an, disparaissait brutalement Louis Bergeron. Certains de ses collègues, de ses élèves ou des personnes l’ayant connu dans le cadre de ses travaux de recherche, de ses séminaires à l’EHESS ou de ses activités internationales ont souhaité qu’un hommage lui soit rendu, hommage mémoriel de reconnaissance humaine mais aussi hommage scientifique.

Le Centre de recherches historiques de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (CRH : UMR 8558 CNRS-EHESS) a décidé de consacrer le vendredi 23 octobre 2015 une journée à la mémoire de Louis Bergeron. Celle-ci se tiendra dans l’amphithéâtre du 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris.

 

La matinée – de 10h00 à 12h30 –  sera introduite par Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Président de l’EHESS et par les Directeurs du CRH. Elle prendra la forme d’une table ronde, autour de la carrière scientifique de Louis Bergeron, de ses premiers travaux sur la Révolution et l’Empire à l’enquête sur les Grands notables, de l’histoire urbaine de Paris aux élites sociales de la banque et du patronat. Ses fonctions de direction à la tête du CRH et son rôle dans la vie de l’EHESS ne seront pas oubliés. Elle réunira notamment Patrice Bourdelais, Serge Chassagne, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret, Jean Ehrard, Mathieu Marraud, Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier, Denis Woronoff. La parole sera également donnée aux amis et collègues de Louis Bergeron présents dans la salle.

L’après-midi – de 14h15 à 17h30 – s’attachera, toujours sous la forme d’une table ronde, au rôle joué par Louis Bergeron d’abord dans l’émergence, en France, du concept d’archéologie industrielle, puis secondement à son influence essentielle dans la structuration du mouvement international en faveur de la préservation du patrimoine de l’industrie, notamment au travers de ses deux mandats de Président du TICCIH.

La table ronde rassemblera quelques Français qui l’ont accompagné notamment autour du CILAC – Bernard André, Gracia Dorel-Ferré, Geneviève Dufresne et Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois – mais aussi des personnalités européennes de premier plan dans le domaine de l’archéologie industrielle, Eusebi Casanelles, Luigi Fontana, Franco Mancuso, Massimo Preite et Guido Vanderhulst.

S’il s’agit, durant cette journée, de rendre l’hommage légitime que doivent d’anciens collègues, doctorants et élèves à une personnalité les ayant profondément marqués, il conviendra surtout de dégager, par le témoignage de ceux qui l’ont connu, la logique et les incertitudes de son parcours intellectuel et scientifique mais aussi engagé dans la société.

L’entrée sera libre et gratuite

Comité d’organisation :

Bernard ANDRE, Geneviève DUFRESNE, Marie-Vic OZOUF-MARIGNIER, Denis WORONOFF

Centenaire Pierre Goubert

Madame, Monsieur,

En cette année 2015, Pierre Goubert (1915-2012) aurait eu cent ans. Eminent spécialiste de l’histoire moderne, fondateur du Centre de recherche en histoire moderne à Paris 1, il reste par son œuvre et son héritage “un des très grands historiens du XXe siècle” comme l’a écrit Maurice Garden.

Le 13 octobre prochain, de 14h à 17h30 à l’ENS de Lyon (site Descartes, salle F 08), se tiendra une journée d’études intitulée “Comprendre, faire comprendre et faire revivre” : Pierre Goubert ou comment faire œuvre d’historien.

Nous aurons le plaisir d’entendre Daniel Roche (Collège de France), Maurice Garden (Lyon 2/ENS Cachan), Guillaume Garner (ENS de Lyon), Françoise Dartois-Lapeyre (Paris IV/ESPE Paris), Nicolas Schapira (UPEM) et Igor Moullier (ENS de Lyon).

Veuillez trouver le programme de cette journée avec ce lien http://calenda.org/334391

Vous en souhaitant bonne lecture, recevez, Madame, Monsieur, mes très respectueuses salutations,

Thibaut Poirot
Agrégé d’histoire, DCE
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
IHRF/IHMC (UMR 8066)

Décès d’Alice Teichova

Dans une triste série, je me permets de signaler avec beaucoup de retard le décès à 94 ans au mois d’avril, passé sauf erreur inaperçu en France, d’une grande historienne de l’économie, Alice Teichova, une référence incontournable pour qui s’intéressait à l’histoire de l’Europe centrale de l’entre-deux-guerres, restée très active jusqu’à ces dernières années, qui formait avec son mari également historien, Mikulas Teich, un couple extraordinaire dont la trajectoire entre la Tchécoslovaquie et la Grande-Bretagne incarnait une grande partie de l’histoire du XXe siècle. Vous trouverez sous ce lien une nécrologie du Guardian qui résume mieux que je ne pourrait le faire son parcours.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/alice-teichova

bien cordialement

Hervé Joly

Hommage à Nathan Rosenberg

Je reproduis ci-dessous l’hommage à notre collègue américain Nathan Rosenberg qu’a publié hier soir la lettre d’information des historiens économistes américains et qui est dû à Joel Mokyr.

Patrick Fridenson

From: EH.net Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 4:32 PMSubject: An obituary for Nathan Rosenberg

 

 

Nathan Rosenberg, 1927-2015/Joel Mokyr

 

The economic history profession has lost one of its most original, creative, and wide-ranging minds in the passing of Nathan
Rosenberg on Aug. 24, 2015. Rosenberg was one of the founding fathers of Cliometrics, a member of the first group of Cliometricians that with coining the term “congregated at Purdue University in the late 1960s, and which included other luminaries among them
Lance Davis, Jonathan Hughes, and Stanley Reiter (who is widely credited Cliometrics”). By 1970, this group had moved away from West Lafayette and dispersed to institutions such as Northwestern and CalTech. Rosenberg was hired by the University of Wisconsin,
and was a member of a different group of influential and distinguished economic historians in Madison, including at one time or another Jeffrey Williamson, Peter Lindert, Morton Rothstein, Rondo Cameron, and Claudia Goldin. While at Wisconsin, Rosenberg was
the editor of the Journal of Economic History
and instrumental in its growing focus on the new economic history that was theoretically informed by economics and quantitatively more sophisticated — the very essence
of the Cliometric Revolution.

In 1974, Rosenberg moved to Stanford, where he taught for more than a quarter century until his retirement in 2002. As department chair
at Stanford between 1983and 1986 he helped build the department and maintain its position as one of the top economics departments in the country. Moreover, his leadership guaranteed that economic history remained an integral part of the undergraduate and Ph.D.
programs and includes some of its most distinguished practitioners such as Gavin Wright and Avner Greif, as well as younger and promising scholars. Today, thanks to Rosenberg’s initiative and entrepreneurship, the Stanford department is housed in a gorgeous
building named after Ralph Landau, whose support for research and teaching in economics was first stimulated by a fortuitous meeting with Rosenberg. The partnership with Landau, a chemical engineer and entrepreneur fascinated by economics, led to a fruitful
scholarly collaboration between him and Rosenberg, especially in two well-regarded collections they edited together. Thanks in large part to Rosenberg’s resourcefulness, the graduate program at Stanford has thrived and produced many distinguished members of
the economic history profession and applied economists working on innovation. While not all of them worked with him directly, his influence on the flourishing of economic history at Stanford was undeniable. Many of the former graduate students he trained and
inspired co-authored and co-edited papers and books with him, such as David Mowery with whom he wrote
Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth
(Cambridge University Press, 1989). Without exception these young economists admired and adored him; two of them, Scott Stern and Shane Greenstein, were my former
colleagues, and the three of us were instrumental in Northwestern awarding him an honorary doctorate in 2006, in the same class of honorary degrees as the then little-known junior senator from Illinois. If ever there was an academic conspiracy that can be
called a true labor of love, this was it.

As a scholar, much of Rosenberg’s most important and influential work is captured by the title of his
Inside the Black Box, a collection of essays on the nature
of technology (Cambridge University Press, 1982). In it, he stated from the onset that “economists have long treated technological phenomena as events transpiring inside a black box…the economics profession has adhered rather strictly to a self-imposed ordinance
not to inquire too seriously into what transpires inside that box. The purpose of this book is to break open and to examine the contents of the black box” (p. vii). That metaphor captures the central theme of Rosenberg’s career.

What, then did Rosenberg find inside that black box? In his typical self-deprecating way, he once remarked to me that once you open the
big black box of technology, you find inside a smaller black box, and so on, much like Russian
matryoshka
dolls. Maybe, he reflected, in the end this is what scientific progress
really
consists of? But of course, opening the black box led Rosenberg to considerably more important insights on the nature of technological change. I will list only
a few that I find the most insightful — others can have other preferences. One is his emphasis on the subtle and complex interplay between science and technology stressed in his magnificent essay “How Exogenous is Science?”. In it he points out the many feedback
effects that run from technology to science, and debunked the “linear model” that draws the main arrow of causality from Science to Applied Science to Technology. Since Rosenberg’s work, historians of technology have heaped scorn on the linear model. Technology
in his view is not the mechanical “application of science” to production; it is a field of knowledge by itself, quite different in its incentives, its modes of transmission, and its culture. It is affected by science, but in turn provides “pure research” with
its instruments and much of its agenda. In many cases, he noted, scientists were confronted by the fact that things they had previously declared to be impossible were actually carried out by engineers and mechanics and had to admit somewhat sheepishly that
were possible after all. More than a decade later, in his later book Exploring the Black Box,
he returned to the important but often-neglected link between technology and scientific progress, provided by scientific instrumentation.

A second item Rosenberg found inside his black box early on was the importance of the machine industry in the generation of technological
change and economic growth, a topic he explored early in his career in his influential 1963
Journal of Economic History
paper, “Technological Change in the Machine Tool Industry” reprinted in his
Perspectives on Technology
(Cambridge University Press, 1976). The paper stressed the crucial importance of machine tools in creating the mechanization that was at the heart of the Industrial
Revolution in the United States and Britain, and showed that without the improvements in lathes, planers, milling machines and precision grinders, much of the growth of modern manufacturing could not have happened. In his later book
Technology and American Economic Growth
(Harper & Row, 1972) he explained how the ever-growing specialization, and not just the quality improvement and lower prices of these precision metal-cutting
and shaping devices, stimulated and supported the rise of modern industry. In his citation for the Leonardo Da Vinci medal that the Society for the History of Technology awarded Rosenberg in 1995, David Hounshell wrote that “His 1963 article remains to this
day perhaps the single most influential essay ever written in our discipline. In it, Rosenberg grasped the essential nature of the technical knowledge embedded in the machine tool industry and recognized how that knowledge would not fit easily into existing
economic models.”

A third item that many historians of technology, whether economists or not, have found extremely insightful in Rosenberg’s black box
is his concept of “focusing devices,” first enunciated in his 1969 Economic Development and Cultural Change
paper “The Direction of Technological Change,” (reprinted in
Perspectives on Technology).
It is an intuitively powerful concept that essentially proposes that much of technological progress occurs because a firm, a group, or the government realizes
that there is an urgent need for a clear solution to a pressing and well-defined social issue or bottleneck in production. The solution is not always forthcoming of course — Rosenberg cited with great glee Hotspur’s decisive riposte to Glendower’s claim that
he could call the spirits from the vastly deep: “why, so can I, so can any man; but will they come when you call for them?” (see his
Technology and American Growth,
p.51). But when the solution is arrived at, it often solves far more than it was intended for and overshoots its target, and thus it creates a new bottleneck.
This leapfrogging or “compulsive sequences” phenomenon was used to describe the eighteenth century cotton manufacturing, but in fact it applies to much of the rest of the technological revolutions of the eighteenth century. At the start of the century, British
society knew well that it faced a number of hard but well-defined problems: finding longitude at sea, pumping water out of deep-shaft coal mines, ridding society of smallpox, and turning pig iron into wrought iron cheaply and rapidly. By 1800 these problems
had all been solved. Rosenberg’s essay deals with firms and their recognition of an opportunity for profit, but one can easily add other motives, from the altruism of Jonas Salk, the driving ambition of James Watson to the political ideology of the men and
women working on Project Manhattan.

Academic work was the center of Rosenberg’s life. After his retirement, he continued to write and publish. Together with Bronwyn Hall,
he edited the massive two-volume Handbook of the Economics of Innovation
(Elsevier, 2010), which contains wonderful survey essays by every serious scholar working in the area. He also published a sparklingly original and creative paper
(jointly with Manuel Trajtenberg) in the Journal of Economic History
(2004) on the economic significance of the Corliss steam engine and its effect on American industrialization. The brand new
Handbook of Cliometrics
(2015) contains an essay by Rosenberg jointly with Stanley Engerman on “Innovation in Historical Perspective.”

There was much more to Rosenberg’s intellectual persona than his interest in innovation and technical knowledge. He was fascinated by
the “greats” of economics — especially Smith and Marx, on whom he wrote perceptive essays, as well as lesser but equally fascinating figures such as Charles Babbage. He published a collection of his essays on the History of Economics as he saw it (often from
the point of view of technology), entitled The Emergence of Economic Ideas: Essays in the History of Economics —
idiosyncratic, perhaps, but never dull. In the editors’ introduction to the first volume of the
Economics of Innovation
compilation, Rosenberg and Hall cite a long passage from Schumpeter’s preface to the Japanese edition of his 1937 book
The Theory of Economic Development.
Schumpeter recounted a debate he had with Walras on whether economics should concern itself only with statics or should also be concerned with the rapid changes
in the economy. These kinds of historical issues held endless fascination for Rosenberg. The first essay in his published Graz Lectures,
Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology: Some American Perspectives
(Routledge, 2000), was entitled “Joseph Schumpeter and the Economic Interpretation of History.” He cited at length and with almost palpable delight Schumpeter’s
statement that economic history was absolutely required for the scientific study of economics. Rosenberg was also interested in modern medical research and its place in the modern American research university. He surely was the only economic historian to have
published a paper both
in
The New England Journal of Medicine
and
The Energy Journal
(and probably the only one to have published in
either).

Rosenberg was one of the broadest and most intellectually curious minds I ever met. He was, as Ken Arrow remarked in his eulogy, an enormous
lover of books and owned many thousands of them — yet ironically his own preferred format was the short pointed essay or at most a short and summary book such as his brief
Technology and American Economic Growth. Having read
papers on science and technology his entire life, he may have adopted the scientist’s preferred mode of communication over the long and heavily-detailed books written by the typical economic historian. He never wrote a single-authored magnum opus on economic
history. The closest he ever came to a big-think ambitious “explanation of everything” was the set of Rosenberg’s lecture notes that L.E. Birdzell collected and then together published as a book
How the West Grew Rich. It is a lovely and often insightful
book, but it lacks the grandeur and sweep of a David Landes, Douglass North, or Eric Jones, who have written books with similar themes. Rosenberg’s comparative advantage was the brief essay, and the books he published were mostly collections of these essays.
These essays were, without exception, beautifully written: he had the gift of expressing a complex and nuanced economic relation in a short and elegant phrase. They are still read by students and scholars all over the world.

As a person, Rosenberg was deeply loved and admired by those who knew him well. He was urbane and erudite even by the high standards
of the great economic historians of his generation. He was witty to the point of being hilarious, and could be sarcastic and cutting when he wanted. He was also a deeply caring husband, father and grandfather, the emblematic Jewish father who knew that investment
in human capital and family cohesion were the essence of Jewish culture. He was a great colleague and a warm and wonderful friend. Of all the many senior economic historians of that generation whom I knew and admired over the years, he was the only one whom
I regarded as much as a relative as a colleague. I will never forget you, Uncle Nate.

Journée d’hommage à Maurice Lévy-Leboyer 1er octobre 2015

Journée d’hommage à Maurice Lévy-Leboyer 1er octobre 2015 Les organisateurs et organisatrices de cette demi-journée d’étude et d’hommage qui aura lieu un an après la disparition de Maurice Lévy-Leboyer ont souhaité qu’elle soit centrée sur l’actualité des principaux travaux de Maurice Lévy-Leboyer tout en offrant une pleine liberté de prise de parole aux présents : – les interventions au programme portent sur certains aspects saillants de l’œuvre de Maurice Lévy-Leboyer et seront suivies d’une discussion. – la table ronde finale permettra aux participants qui le souhaitent d’apporter des témoignages ou des points de vue complémentaires.13h30-13h45 Introduction Michel Lescure (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, IDHES-Nanterre) 13h45-15h45 : le XIXe siècle Présidence : Catherine Omnès (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines, Printemps) Richard Sylla (New York University, Stern Business School ) Fifty Years of Intellectual Fellowship Patrick Verley (Université de Genève) Industrialisation et position internationale de la France au XIXe siècle Leslie Hannah (London School of Economics and Political Science) Maurice Lévy-Leboyer et l’histoire comparée André Straus (CNRS-Phare, Université de Paris 1) L’économie française au XIXe siècle Fabrice Boudjaaba (CNRS-CRH, EHESS) La rente foncière en Basse-Normandie Discussion 16h-17h30 : le XXe siècle Présidence : Sabine Effosse (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, IDHES) Yasuo Gonjo (National University of Yokohama) Le cours de Sciences Po (1952) : Histoire économique et sociale de la France depuis 1848 Angelo Riva (European Business School, Ecole d’économie de Paris) Banques et crises en Europe occidentale au XXe siècle Hervé Joly (CNRS-TRIANGLE, Université de Lyon) Le patronat français au XXe siècle : reproduction ou renouvellement ? Discussion 17h30-18h15 : Table ronde Maurice Lévy-Leboyer, l’homme de toutes les questions Animée par Florence Descamps (EPHE), Patrick Fridenson (EHESS, CRH) et Catherine Omnès (Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Printemps). Tous ceux qui ont travaillé avec Maurice Lévy-Leboyer seront invités à prendre la parole. 18h15 Cocktail Journée d’hommage organisée avec le soutien de l’Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique (IGPDE)-Direction de la Recherche/Comité pour l’Histoire économique et financière de la France (MINEFI), l’IDHES-Nanterre (UMR 8533), l’École doctorale E.O.S de l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense et la Revue Entreprises et Histoire.

Nathan Rosenberg (1927-2015)

NathanRosenberg-230x283Une information passée malheureusement un peu inaperçue et transmise par Gabriel Galvez-Behar au compte twitter de l’association, Nathan Rosenberg nous a quitté lundi dernier à l’âge de 89 ans.

Historien économiste né en 1927, Nathan Rosenberg était professeur émérite au sein du département d’économie de l’université de Stanford (voir ici et).  Grand spécialiste des processus d’innovation, des changements technologiques et de leurs liens avec la croissance économique,  il avait ainsi publié, seul ou en collaboration, plusieurs ouvrages importants sur la question, de Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics (1983) à Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics, and History (1994) en passant par How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation Of The Industrial World (1987) et Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth (1992). Continuer la lecture de Nathan Rosenberg (1927-2015)

International Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Yannick Lemarchand

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International Festschrift in Honour of Professor Yannick Lemarchand

Known globally for his research and publications examining accounting, accounting history, history and management, Professor Yannick Lemarchand, professeur émérite en Sciences de gestion at the Université de Nantes, has played a critical role in broadening the boundaries of ‘accounting history’ to include other management disciplines, areas of history and countries beyond the Anglo-Saxon context. Professor Lemarchand also has long-standing ties to Accounting History Review. Continuer la lecture de International Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Yannick Lemarchand

France-Japon, regards croisés : hommage à Terushi Hara

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Le livre FranceJapon, regards croisés. Mélanges en hommage à Terushi Hara (sous la direction de Dominique Barjot et Patrick Fridenson) vient de paraître aux Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (PUPS).

Grand ami de la France, l’historien japonais Terushi Hara a ouvert d’importants chantiers scientifiques.
Spécialiste de l’étude des ententes, des cartels et des politiques industrielles durant le XXe siècle, il a consacré une grande partie de son œuvre à l’histoire des chemins de fer (notamment des chemins de fer algériens, puis du Shinkansen et du TGV français).  Il s’est intéressé aux progrès de l’organisation scientifique du travail et a intégré les problématiques de l’américanisation. Il s’est interrogé sur la question des transferts de technologie et organisationnels. Son expertise de l’économie française, qu’il a fait connaître aux étudiants japonais, l’a imposé comme un grand historien des entreprises et des processus d’intégration internationaux, notamment de la stratégie des entreprises japonaises en France et en Europe. L’ouvrage a pour but de revenir, dans une perspective historique, sur les regards croisés entre le Japon et la France.

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