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This is the first issue of Over the Counter of 2020! As before, this post contains newly published academic journal issues, business and economic history related readings, and recently aired podcast episodes. Do not hesitate to contact the editor for contributions to this post or other publications of interest. New issues in academic journals The Economic History Review published a review of periodical literature published in 2018 that might be of interest to many. It is accessible here . The current issue of the journal (Vol. 73 Issue 1) is available here . Enterprise & Society 's latest issue came up last December ( Vol. 20 Issue 4 ). It contains 2018-2019 BHC president's address "“The Nature of the Firm”—and the Eternal Life of the Brand" was delivered in Cartagena, Colombia. Business History Review 's issue on New Perspectives in Regulatory History was published at the end of last year. The table of contents is available here . Busines...

  Capitalism and the Senses A Hagley Museum and Library Conference, on Friday, November 6, 2020 Wilmington, Delaware Deadline for proposals is May 1, 2020 This conference will explore the sensory history of capitalism—the ways that seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have shaped, and been shaped by, capitalism over the longue durée, from the early modern era to the present. From the stench of the stockyards to the saccharine sounds of Muzak, everyday sensory environments have been made and remade by capitalism, and as portals through which we take in knowledge of the world, the senses have been subject to manipulation, exploitation, and commodification. If, as Karl Marx contended in 1844, the senses have a history, then that history is intertwined with the development of capitalism, which has drawn on the embodied power of the senses and, in turn, influenced how sensory experience has changed over time. We are interested in original, unpublished, and histo...

Photography Collections of Financial Companies II eabh in cooperation with National Bank of Greece date: 12 June 2020 deadline to submit proposals: 15 February 2020 location: National Bank of Greece, 82 & 93 Eolou Street, 10551 Athens, Greece Call for Papers This workshop wants to put the spotlight on the photography collections of not exclusively, but mainly financial corporations. It is the continuation of a workshop on the same topic that took place in cooperation with ING in 2011. Photography collections of corporations are often broad and extensive but very little explored for marketing, research and digital access. This archival workshop aims to discover the contents, importance and use of corporate photography collections of (financial) organisations: Where are these - often extensive - collections? How are they used? Which is their use and marketing value for institutors themselves? Which is their...

The International Monetary Fund in Europe: Interventions in Developed Countries (Past and Present) in Lisbon, Portugal – Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon; 15-16 October 2020 Deadline for proposals is May 18th, 2020 Since the 1980s that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has specialised in interventions in developing countries. But that was not the typical situation in the previous 40 years of existence of the organisation. From 1945 to the 1980s the IMF signed Stand-by arrangements with both developing and developed countries and conducted sometimes quite large adjustment programmes in the latter (such as those in Italy and the UK in 1977). Those interventions were much lighter in terms of conditionality than what became common after the 1980s: their main purpose was to give quick support to countries facing balance of payments crises in order to help them keep the par value of their exchange rates within the context of the Bretton Woods system. As this...

#BHCCharlotte Book Auction If you have a recently published book or you are the editor of a journal in a field related to business history, please contact your publisher and urge them to participate in our free Book and Journals Exhibit. Direct them to the information available on the BHC Meeting webpage, specifically to the page of information for publishers at https://thebhc.org/book-exhibit-information-publishers . A large number of publishers participate in the BHC exhibit each year, but smaller presses often do not plan to display their wares unless they are contacted by an author. Also, though publishers tend to display only new titles, they are usually willing to include any item still in print, especially for authors who will be in attendance at the meeting. We do an e-mailing to exhibit managers of publishers with large business history lists, but the display of a particular title may require direct intervention by authors. Particularly if your book is a recent paperback, ...

Fifth edition of the VIU Summer School on Responsible Capitalism: Micro and Macro-institutional Conditions of Transformation (June 16-20, 2020) Deadline for applications is February 28 The summer school on Responsible Capitalism is an initiative of VIU in cooperation with the two member universities Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and University of Lausanne . It aims at the development of ideas that promote a more sustainable future by bringing together young scholars from all over the world to discuss their ideas on the future of Capitalism from the microlevel of individual decision-making to the organizational and the societal level. It gives participants the opportunity to discuss with eminent scholars in management theory and to test their ideas and present their work. Participants will be made familiar with recent research from a broad set of disciplines. They will work on their ability to engage in the transdisciplinary discourse which is required for the developm...

Finance & Migration Conference eabh in cooperation with National Bank of Greece Date: June 11th, 2020 at the National Bank of Greece,  82 & 93 Eolou Street; 10551, Athens, Greece Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2020 This conference will look at the relationship between the financial sector and migration - taking a comparative historical view. It’s impossible to look at human history without acknowledging continuous migratory flows and mass movements with the rise and fall of empires and nations. We are interested in  scholarly work on how these movements of people were financed during chaotic times and  how these migrants were integrated into the financial systems of the country of their  arrival. Which is the spectrum of agency between private networks, state responsibility and the banks in between? Considering the excellent archival sources of the National Bank of Greece, the case of Greece after the end of the Ottoman Empire and...