. . . “financial knowledge” encompasses how people teach, learn, and think about a variety of financial behaviors, from saving and investing to borrowing and spending. The conference takes as its starting point the idea that the transmission of financial knowledge, whether concepts like “family budgets,” practices such as the use of “pin money,” or folk wisdom about the nature of risk-taking, takes multiple forms, from everyday conversation and personal correspondence to mass journalism and works of fiction. . . .The organizers seek to bring together studies that address “how financial knowledge (whether accurate, false, or dubious) is promulgated and circulates at the local, national, and international levels, as well as its role in the creation of the modern economic order” from the global financial crises of the Panic of 1837 to the Great Depression.
Scholars interested in presenting a chapter- or article-length paper at the conference are invited to send a brief abstract of 250–300 words as well as a short CV by