HELVHET

HELVHET | MAILING-LIST | #2018 | #2019 | #2021 | #2022 | #2023 | #2025

What is HELVHET?

an acronym for HELVhetic History of Economic Thought;
a mailing-list;
the name for a network of scholars working on the history of economic knowledge, the economics profession, economic expertise and institutions in Switzerland and beyond;
and it used to be a hashtag on twitter (#helvhet) — RIP.

The aims of HELVHET are

to connect existing networks and to create a forum for discussing the history of economic thought and economic practices in Switzerland;
to share relevant academic information and news about seminars, job offers and grants, call for papers, conferences and research projects either related to Switzerland or taking place in Switzerland.

We hope to stimulate contacts among historians of economics, economic historians, STS scholars, historians of science, economists, sociologists… and everyone interested in HELVHET.

Since 2018, an annual event takes place in Switzerland: so far in Lausanne (2018, 2021, 2023 and 2025), in Zürich (2019), and in Luzern (2022; cancelled in 2020 because of COVID). Keep posted on the mailing-list!

History of HELVHET

This initiative was born in 2017, after a few attendees of the HISRECO conference in Lucerne realised that there were several people working in Switzerland and abroad on related topics at Swiss institutions.

The “Luzern group” who launched HELVHET was composed by (warning: legacy affiliations):

François Allisson, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne
Wendelin Brühwiler, University of Zurich
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne
Federico D’Onofrio, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne
Verena Halsmayer, University of Lucerne
Catherine Herfeld, University of Zurich
Marion Ronca, University of Zurich
Thierry Rossier, Observatoire des élites suisses (OBELIS), University of Lausanne