conference papers and other scholarly contributions from the team
2016
- May 10, 2016 – M. Leimgruber presented the OECD project at the Alumni Association of the History Department, University of Zurich.
- March 20-22, 2016 – M. Schmelzer presented at the conferene „More Roads from Mont Pèlerin – Neoliberalism Studies“ at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
- March 9, 2016 – M. Schmelzer presented his book „The Hegemony of Growth. The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Pardigm“ at the OECD’s New Approaches to Econmic Challenges (NAEC) seminar in Paris. Watch a video of this event
- March 7, 2016 – M. Schmelzer Patriziate to the panel „Unendliches Wirtschaftswachstum auf einem endlichen Planet – Zukunftsfähig oder Widersprüchlich?“ at the University of Zürich
- February 3, 2016 – M. Schmelzer discusses at the panel „Ökologisches Wirtschaften zwischen sozialer Notwendigkeit und individueller Freiheit“ at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden in an event organized by the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung Sachsen
2015
- December 2, 2015 – M Leimgruber presented the OECD history project at the ETH/UZH Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens
- October 19, 2015 – M Schmelzer presented a paper on the history and challenges of economic growth at in the lecture course “Probleme der Wirtschaftsgeschichte” at the University of Zurich
- October 6, 2015 – M Leimgruber presented the paper, co-authored with Christophe Farquet, «Catch me if you can! Tax havens, the market for tax evasion and fiscal diplomacy from the League of Nations to the OECD, 1920-1990» at the Geschichtskontor, University of Zurich
- September 3-4, 2015 – M Schmelzer & M Leimgruber present a paper on the history of the OECD at the international conference “Europe and International Organisations, 1918-1970s” at the University of Copenhagen
- August 27-29, 2015 – Warden of the West international conference, University of Zurich
- August 3, 2015 – M Schmelzer was awarded the best dissertation prize for 20th C. economic history by the International Association for Economic History, at the WEHC in Kyoto, Japan
- August 3, 2015 – M Schmelzer, M Leimgruber & S Beroud participated in the double session “Crisis managers: international organizations and the turbulent 1970s” at the WEHC in Kyoto, Japan. (Co-organization with Prof. Kazuhiko Yago, Waseda University)
– M Schmelzer presented a paper entitled “‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unraveling of the postwar confidence in economic growth”
– S. Beroud presented a paper entitled “Positive adjustments”: the emergence of supply-side economics in OECD and G7 debates, 1975-1983” - July 1, 2015 – M Schmelzer gave a lecture entitled “Das Wachstumsparadigma: Geschichte und Hegemonie einer wirtschaftspolitischen Idee” at the Ringvorlesung zur Postwachstumsökonomie, Universität Oldenburg
- June 16, 2015 – L Fulleringer presented the paper ” Raw material, refined politics. L’OECE et la recherche scientifique au début des années 1950′ “, IFRIS doctoral workshop (Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société), Barcelona
- June 12, 2015 – S Beroud presented the paper «The Geopolitics of Financialization: The Group of Five and its Reaction to the Economic Crisis of the 1970s» at the Conference Financialization: A New Chapter in the History of Capitalism?, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
- May 29, 2015 – S Beroud presented the paper «“Positive adjustments”: the emergence of supply-side economics in OECD and G7 debates, 1975-1983» at the Conference The Practices of Structural Policy in Western Market Economies since the 1960s, Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF Potsdam)
- May 29 2015 – M Schmelzer presented at the HISRECO conference (History of Recent Economics) at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris) a paper entitled «Born in the corridors of the OECD: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unraveling of the postwar confidence in economic growth»
- May 21, 2015 – M Leimgruber presented a paper entitled «”Kansas City am Genfer See” Steuerflucht, Standortwettbewerb und internationale Verflechtungen um 1960» at the Forschungskolloquium zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Humboldt University (Berlin)
- April 2015 – M Schmelzer was awarded the “2015 Friedrich Lütge Award” of the German Society for Social and Economic History (GSWG) for his dissertation entitled “The hegemony of growth. The making and remaking of the economic growth paradigm and the OECD”
- March 14, 2015 – M Leimgruber presented his paper entitled “Kansas City sur Léman. Multinationales, expatriés et refuge fiscal autour de 1960” at the Geneva History Seminar
- February 19, 2015 – M Schmelzer participated to the OECD Seminar «New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC)» at the OECD Paris
- January 30, 2015 – S Beroud presented the paper «On the road to the Bonn Summit: The emergence of the “Locomotive Theory” and the economic “concerted action” within the OECD, ECC, IMF and Group of Seven during the 1970s» at the workshop Multiple Connections in Post-War European Cooperation: International Organizations, Policy Ideas, Practices and Transfers, Berlin.
2014
- December 5, 2014 – C. Farquet presented the paper «The Big Leap in International Tax Competition: Financial Liberalization and the Growth of Offshore Finance (1958-1963)» at the workshop Taxation for and against Redistribution since 1945: Historical Trajectories and Comparative Outcomes, German Historical Institute, Washington DC.
- November 27-28, 2014 – M. Leimgruber and C. Farquet presented the paper «Catch me if you can! Tax havens, the market for tax evasion and fiscal diplomacy from the League of Nations to the OECD, 1920-1990» at the workshop Internation tax competition and financial secrecy, University of St Gallen (Switzerland)
- November 6-7, 2014 – M. Schmelzer presented the paper «Die Selbstevidenz des Wachstumsparadigmas. Hegemonie, Wirtschaftsexperten und internationale Organisationen» at the workshop Wachstum ohne Alternativen? Geschichtskulturelle und wissensgeschichtliche Dimensionen von Wachstumsnarrativen at the Max-Planck-Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.
- October 28 2014 – M. Schmelzer and L. Fulleringer présent their ongoing research on the OECD at the seminar “Le gouvernement du progrès et des dégâts qu’il engendre”, at the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris
- 24.09.2014 – M. Schmelzer presented a paper on “‘How undergrowthed do you consider your economy?’ Die OECD, ökonomische Experten und wie die Erwartung exponentiellen Wirtschaftswachstums sich durchsetzte” at the Historikertag in Göttingen
- 23-26.09.2014 – L. Fulleringer presented a paper entitled « Plus de statistique sur l’élevage de volaille que sur l’effort scientifique? L’OECE-OCDE et l’ajustement des systèmes de recherche et d’éducation (1957-1965) », Présentation, Ecole thématique d’automne de l’IFRIS (Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société), Firenze (Italy)
- 06.09.2014 Double session on the history of the OEEC/OECD at the ENIUGH Conference, co-organized with Daniel Speich, University of Luzern. Program and abstracts
- 05.09.2014 M Schmelzer was awarded the Kapp-Research prize of the German association for ecological economics (Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie, VÖÖ) for his dissertation «The hegemony of growth. The making and remaking of the economic growth paradigm and the OECD»,
- 03.09.2014 M Schmelzer presented “«Expand or die’. The historical foundations of the economic growth paradigm» in the special session Degrowth and History at the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig
- 25.08.2014 Christophe Farquet (UNIGE) presented a paper co-authored with M. Leimgruber entitled «Catch me if you can! Tax havens, the market for tax evasion and fiscal diplomacy from the League of Nations to the OECD, 1920-1990» at the European Business History Association (EBHA) in Leiden (NL)
- 17.07.2014 M. Schmelzer will present a paper on “Wirtschaftswachstum als Hegemonie. Historische Zugriffe auf ökonomisches Wissen am Beispiel des Wachstumsparadigmas” at the Workshop «Zur Soziologie ökonomischen Wissens» (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena)
- 17.06.2014 – S. Beroud presented a paper entitled «Interdépendance, collaborations et confrontations: l’OCDE et la transformation de la coopération économique internationale, 1971-1984» at the Historiales/Programme doctoral en histoire contemporaine (University of Geneva)
- 10.06.2014 – L. Fulleringer presented his PhD project entitled «A la frontière de la modernité. Une histoire de l’OECE/OCDE et des politiques scientifiques de 1957 à 1987» at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS, Paris)
- 30.05.2014 – M. Schmelzer presented a paper on “Measuring growth: The international standardization of national income accounting” at the Workshop “One World Economy: Histories of an Idea” (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
- 20.03.2014 – OECD workshop at Sciences Po Paris with Henning Türk (Duisburg/Essen) on the OECD and energy, Noël Bonhomme (IEP Strasbourg) on the conflictual relations between the G7 and the OECD, and Samuel Beroud (Geneva) on the OECD facing the 1970s crisis
- 08.02.2014 – M. Schmelzer presented a paper entitled «More than a rational number cruncher: the OECD, political interests and restricted spaces» at the workshop «Social and economic policy making. Scientific experts in transnational perspective» (University of Basel)
- 30.01.2014 – S. Beroud & M. Leimgruber presented a paper entitled «A pilot fish ahead of the sharks? The changing fortunes of OECD expertise and experts during the “long 1970s”» at the conference «Crisis, Ideas and Policy Transformation: Experts and Expertise in European International Organizations, 1973-1987» (University of Maastricht)
2013
- 05.12.2013 S. Beroud and L. Fulleringer presented their PhD projects at the staff seminar of the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History (University of Geneva)
- 13.11.2013 M. Leimgruber presented the OECD research project at the University of St. Gallen «Research seminar in political science»
- 01.10.2013 M. Schmelzer & M. Leimgruber talked about the project at the University of Luzern «Forschungskolloquium Soziologie»
- 20.09.2013 M. Schmelzer presented a paper entitled “The ”development of others” and the hegemony of donors countries. the historical origins of the OEEC/OECD Development Assistance Committee” at the 8th pan-European Conference on International Relations, 18-21.09.2013, Warsaw, Poland
- 01.06.2013 M. Schmelzer presented a paper entitled «Institutionalizing the hegemony of donor countries: the OECD as a key actor in the emerging field of “development” during the 1960s» at the Japan Socio-Economic History Society Conference, University of Tokyo
- 29.05.2013 M. Leimgruber presented the OECD research project at the Research Seminar on International Organizations of the Centre d’Etudes des Relations Internationales (CERI) – Sciences Po (Paris)
- 23.05.2013 L. Fulleringer presented a paper entitled “L’internationalisation des politiques scientifiques entre 1953 et 1987 dans les pays de l’OCDE”, at the research workshop at the ESPCI (École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles, Paris)
- A. Heiniger and M. Leimgruber are working on a paper entitled “The keepers of the keys: the OECD and the postwar internationalization of economic expertise”. Preliminary versions of this paper will be presented at the following conferences/workshops:
- 01.06.2013 Japan Socio-Economic History Society Conference, University of Tokyo
- 15.05.2013 workshop “La prosopographie: objets et méthodes”, LARHRA/LAMOP/Archives Nationales, Peyreffite sur Seine (France)
- 20.03.2013 workshop “Méthodes quantitatives et histoire”, Université de Genève & Université de Lausanne
- 11-13.04.2013 M. Leimgruber presented a paper entitled “The embattled standard-bearer of social insurance and its challenger : the ILO, the OECD, and the «crisis of the welfare state», 1975-1985”conference “The European welfare state in a global context: historical perspectives since 1945”, German Historical Institute, London