PRESENTATION

The European Conference on the History of Economics was launched in 1994 by an organising committee composed of José Luís Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon), Philippe Fontaine (Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan), Albert Jolink (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Robert Leonard (Université du Québec à Montréal).

The first two conferences, Rotterdam 1995 and Lisbon 1996, corresponded to a first phase of ECHE activities, focused on establishing a new European platform for the development of scholarly interests in the history of economics.

Since 1997, the promoters of ECHE have focused on a smaller, more specialised meeting, devoted to the discussion of a particular topic, often one that is inadequately explored, and the promotion of interdisciplinary exchange. Every year, the conference features a relatively small number of papers, with no simultaneous conference sessions, allowing for lively discussion of the conference theme