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Presentation of ESHET and JSHET
Japan Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) was esta-
blished in April 1950, mainly to promote the study of economic history, and
history of social thought and economic but also to promote international
exchange for its members. The Society provides open conferences, and
remains in contact with societies abroad.
It is in the same spirit that the European Society for the History of Econo-
mic Thought (Eshet) was founded in December 1995.
“The objectives of the Society shall be promoted:
• teaching and research in the history of economic thought in Europe,
taking into account the different traditions and languages;
• cooperation with European national economic societies and organi-
sations in the history of economic thought;
• communications and the exchange of ideas amongst European tea-
chers and researchers in the history of economic thought, including confe-
rences, seminars and summer schools;
• the establishment of links with national economic societies and orga-
nisations for the history of economic thought outside Europe;
• innovative methods in the teaching of the history of economic thought;
• collaborative research in the history of economic thought on a Euro-
pean basis”.
Those two societies are really important since the European Society for
the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) has more than 300 members
and the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET)
has around 800 members.
The main purpose of such a meeting is scientic of course, but as the for-
mer meeting supported it, the ESHET and JSHET will use this meeting in
order to discuss and organize the next cooperation / collaborative project.
The objective is to build a network of excellence in HET, including coope-
ration on various research projects, joint supervision of PhD thesis, etc.
Our purpose organizing this third meeting is both to maintain certain conti-
nuity in the scientic topics we are working on in cooperation with our Ja-
panese colleagues as well as to open progressively discussions on new
topics which may become the next joint research projects and guarantee
for us the possibility to regularly integrate new PhD students.