Andrej Svorenčík
Welcome!
I'm a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Penn Initiative for the Study Markets at Penn's Economics Department.
Previously at the University of Mannheim, Econ Department & mLab, Duke's Center for the History of Political Economy
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Member of the Prosopography Network, research affiliate of the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought
Check out my News, Bio, Education, Publications (articles), Books and chapters, Awards & Honors, My worldwide list of Experimental Economics Labs (summer 2023 edition), Newton 1st edition Principia (1687) Census Project, Current Research Projects, IEA history project, Work in Progress, Keynotes, Upcoming/recent presentations, Past presentations, Collaborators, Teaching Experience, Professional Service, last year's profile interview about one of my projects
News
Co-organizing the 16th HISRECO conference to be held at Penn, May 3-4, 2024. The program is available here.
April 2024: paper Networks of Historians of Economics: 50 Years of History of Economics Society Conferences accepted by the Journal for the History of Economic Thought.
March 2024: My older paper, MIT's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography, will be reprinted in The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics.
December 2023: paper The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories: from Material Culture to Moral Economy published in Œconomia.
September 2023: paper Who Runs the AEA? published by the Journal of Economic Literature (joint work with Kevin D. Hoover).
July 2023: updated version of my worldwide list of experimental economics laboratories.
June 2023: HES conference (Vancouver) The First-Price Auction Controversy.
June 2023: ESHET conference (Liege) slides Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman.
January 2023: became an associate member of the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought at the University of Lausanne.
Spring 2023: semester teaching ECON 4560 (History of Economic Thought) for Penn undergraduates.
November 2022: defended my habilitation at the University of Mannheim.
topic: Applications of Prosopography in the History of Economics.
Fall 2022: selected as one of the social innovators in Slovakia, a network of people who change Slovakia for the better.
Summer 2022: I joined the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania as the Asness Research Fellow.
Education
University of Mannheim, Habilitation (Privatdozent), Economics (Thesis: Applications of Prosopography in the History of Economics)
University of Utrecht, PhD., Economics (Thesis: The Experimental Turn in Economics: A History of Experimental Economics)
2017 Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the history of economics by the History of Economics Society
Mary Morgan (LSE) & Harro Maas as Co-advisors
California Institute of Technology, M.S., Social Sciences
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, M.Sc., Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, M.A., Economic Theory and Economic Journalism (Summa cum laude)
Publications — peer-reviewed articles
Svorenčík, Andrej (forthcoming) Networks of Historians of Economics: 50 Years of History of Economics Society Conferences. Journal for the History of Economic Thought. 46(4).
Svorenčík, Andrej (2023) The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories: from Material Culture to Moral Economy. Œconomia. 13(3): 769-799
Hoover, Kevin D., and Svorenčík, Andrej (2023) Who Runs the AEA? Journal of Economic Literature. 61(3): 1127-1171.
Ernesto Reuben, Sherry Xin Li, Sigrid Suetens, Andrej Svorenčík, Theodore Turocy & Vasileios Kotsidis (2022) Trends in the Publication of Experimental Economics Articles. Journal of the Economic Science Association
Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime and Svorenčík, Andrej (2021) A Prosopography of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. The European Journal for the History of Economic Thought. 28(6): 1005-1024.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2021) The Driving Forces behind the Rise of Experimental Economics. Review of Political Economy. 33(2): 344-361.
Došeková, Zuzana and Svorenčík, Andrej (2021) "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Cultural Policy Response in Slovakia." In Cultural Industries and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Focus, Edited by Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete and Andrej Srakar. Routledge.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2020) Rejecting Rejections—Seeking Acceptance of Experimental Economics in Economics Journals. Oxford Economic Papers. 72(4): 946–965.
Feingold, Morderchai and Svorenčík, Andrej (2020) A Preliminary Census of Copies of the First Edition of Newton’s Principia (1687). Annals of Science. 77(3): 253-348
Featured in the New York Times, The Times, and many other outlets
Pokrivčák, Jan; Tóth, Marián; Ciaian, Pavel; Bušík, Martin and Svorenčík, Andrej (2020) Why Cannot Direct Payments Be Capped in Slovakia? A Political Economy Perspective. Prague Economic Papers. 29(6): 625–648.
Cherrier, Beatrice and Svorenčík, Andrej (2020) Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal. Journal for the History of Economic Thought. 42(2): 153-176.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2019) "Prosopography: The Missing Link in the History of Economics." In: The Contemporary Historiography of Economics. Edited by Till Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub. Routledge. 101-118.
Cherrier, Beatrice and Svorenčík, Andrej (2018) The Quantitative Turn in the History of Economics: Promises, Perils and Challenges. Journal of Economic Methodology. 25(4): 1-10.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2018) The Missing Link: Prosopography in the History of Economics. History of Political Economy. 50(3): 605-613.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2018) Creating Economics in the Lab: From Physical Place to Laboratory Space. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. 36B: 163-177.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2017) Allocating Airport Slots — The History of Early Applied Experimental Research. History of Political Economy. 49(5): 240-263.
Maas, Harro and Svorenčík, Andrej (2017) “Fraught with Controversy”: Organizing Expertise Against Contingent Valuation. History of Political Economy, 49(2): 315-345.
Lange, Jérôme; Schumacher, Reinhard and Svorenčík, Andrej (2017) From Antiquity to Modern Macro: An Overview of Contemporary Scholarship in the History of Economic Thought Journals, 2015-2016. History of Economic Ideas, 25(2): 172-207.
Svorenčík, Andrej and Maas, Harro (2016) The Making of Experimental Economics: A Witness Seminar, Springer.
2019 Best Monograph Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Svorenčík, Andrej (2016) The Sidney Siegel Tradition: The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s. History of Political Economy, 48(5): 270-294.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2010, 2015: 2nd edition) "Experiments in Economics." In: Economic Methodology Understanding Economics as a Science. Edited by John Davis, Marcel Boumans, Palgrave Macmillan. 65-70.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2014) MIT’s Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography. History of Political Economy, 46(5): 109-133.
Mentioned & reviewed by Marginal Revolution in 2014 & 2015, Boston Globe, and Library of Economics and Liberty
Svorenčík, Andrej and Slanina, František (2007) Interacting gaps model, dynamics of order book, and stock-market fluctuations. The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems. Volume 57(4): 453-462.
Publications — books & chapters
Svorenčík, Andrej and Maas, Harro (2016) The Making of Experimental Economics: A Witness Seminar, Springer.
2019 Best Monograph Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Došeková, Zuzana and Svorenčík, Andrej (2021) "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Cultural Policy Response in Slovakia." In Cultural Industries and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Focus, Edited by Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete and Andrej Srakar. Routledge.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2019) "Prosopography: The Missing Link in the History of Economics." In: The Contemporary Historiography of Economics. Edited by Till Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub. Routledge. 101-118.
Svorenčík, Andrej (2010, 2015: 2nd edition) "Experiments in Economics." In: Economic Methodology Understanding Economics as a Science. Edited by John Davis, Marcel Boumans, Palgrave Macmillan. 65-70.
Work in progress
Networks of Historians Of Economics: 50 Years of History of Economics Society Conferences
Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman (with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde)
The Experimental Turn in Economics (book under contract with Cambridge University Press)
A Tale of Two Laboratories and the Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics (revise & resubmit Oeconomia)
What’s in a Name? That Which We Call Economic Science Association
Experimental Economics: A Brief History (invited paper by the Journal of Economic Literature)
Awards & Honors
2023 Associate Member of the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought
2022 Asness Fellow, Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets, Department of Economics of the University of Pennsylvania
2022 Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University Research Fellowship
2020 Baden-Württemberg Scholarship for a research stay at Yale University (canceled due to the pandemic)
2020 Award of the International Economic Association to write a book about its history
2020 elected Vice-President of the Slovak Economic Association
2019 visiting Professor, University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne)
2019 Scholarship for Young Scholars, Italian Association for the History of Political Economy
2019 The Best Monograph Award, European Society for the History of Economic Thought
2018 Martin Filko Prize for best economist under 40 (inaugural recipient), Slovak Economic Association
2017 Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize in the History of Economics, History of Economics Society
2016 Elected Fellow & Board Member of the Slovak Economic Association
2015 Re-assembling the Republic of Letters Digital Humanities Training Scholarship, Oxford, UK
2015 Grant-in-Aid Award, Rockefeller Archive Center, USA
Keynotes
National Bank of Slovakia (March 2023, Bratislava) Economic Thought on Interwar Monetary Instability and the Problem of Central Bank Cooperation (invited speaker).
Blanqui Lecture, 22nd Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Lille, May 2019).
Martin Filko Prize lecture, Slovak Economic Association meetings (Bratislava, September 2018).
The Experimental Turn: How Economics Became an Experimental Science, Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences 2018 (Prague, May 2018), invited lecture.
Upcoming/recent presentations
51st History of Economics Society (July 2024, Santiago).
Sovietology seminar (online, April 2024) Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman.
Market and their Critics: An Economic Historiography Approach (online, April 2024) Alternatives to Markets.
Center for the History of Political Economy workshop (February 2024), Networks of Historians Of Economics: 50 Years of History of Economics Society Conferences.
International Economic Association World Congress (Colombia, December 2023).
Slovak Economic Association Meeting (September 2023, Banska Bystrica) Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman.
50th History of Economics Society (June 2023, Vancouver) The First‐Price Auction Controversy.
25th European Society for the History of Economic Thought (June 2023, Liege) Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman.
University of Padua, Economics Seminar (February 2023, Padova) Who Runs the AEA?
Past presentations
University of Mannheim (November 2022, online) The Experimental Turn in Economics.
Williams College (November 2022, online) Newton’s Principia.
24th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Padova, June 2022, online), Tübingen Economics Department: a long-term Prosopography (1817-2010).
Recent Shifts in the Boundaries of Economics: Philosophy and History (Paris, May 2022, online), Experimental Imperialism in Economics.
The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics conference (Paris, May 2022, online), The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics.
Center for the History of Political Economy workshop (April 2022), Creating Laboratory Space—a New Site of Economics Research.
University of Bologna (February 2022, online) The Sidney Siegel Tradition: The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s.
American Economic Association & ASSA Meeting 2022 (January 2022, online), A Tale of Two Laboratories: The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics.
24th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Sofia, October 2021, online) Prosopography of European Historians.
Slovak Economic Association Meeting (September 2021, Nitra), Trends in the Publication of Experimental Economics Articles.
International Economic Association, (June 2021, online) History of the International Economic Association.
Structural Reforms and Recovery and Resilience Program (panelist) Slovak Economic Association Meeting (online, December 2020).
Rejecting Rejections—Seeking Acceptance of Experimental Economics in Economics Journals, ETH (Zürich) Departmental Seminar (November 2020, online).
Košice Economic Forum (May 2020, online lecture) Spending Review on Culture.
American Economic Association Meeting 2020 (San Diego, January 2020) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover).
Les Après-midi de Philosophie et Economie, The First Price Auction Controversy (Paris, November 2019).
Cercle d’epistemologie economique, The Driving Forces Behind the Rise of Experimental Economics (Paris, November 2019).
Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty, Slovak Economic Association meetings (Brno, September 2019).
16th STOREP conference (Siena, June 2019) The Driving Forces Behind the Success of Experimental Economics.
History of Economics Society Annual Conference (New York, June 2019) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover).
Historical Network Research conference (Brno, September 2018) Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty.
History of Economics Society Annual Conference (Chicago, June 2018) The Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty.
INET-YSI Workshop for junior scholars on Institutions and Communities in the History of Economic Thought (Madrid, June 2018) Invited as the main speaker.
Prosopographical Methods in International and Economic History Workshop (Florence, May 2018) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover).
22nd Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Madrid, May 2018) Prosopography of Experimental Economists.
How to Write History of Economics Conference (Lausanne, October 2017) The Role of Prosopography in Writing Post-War History of Economics.
Curiosity, Imagination and Surprise: Conference in Honour of Mary Morgan (Utrecht, September 2017) From Classrooms to Experimental Economics Laboratories.
History of Economics Society Annual Conference (Toronto, June 2017) Prosopography.
Research Seminar at Brunel University (London, April 2017) Networks of Leading Economists.
Seminar University of Economics (Prague, March 2017) The Experimental Turn in Economics.
American Economic Association Meeting 2017 (Chicago, January 2017) 1) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover); 2) Networks of Leading Economists; 3) Defining Excellence: 70 Years of the John Bates Clark Medal (with Beatrice Cherrier).
INET YSI Plenary (Budapest, October 2016) Allocating Airport Slots - The History of Early Applied Experimental Research.
Economic Science Association (Jerusalem, July 2016) Screening of the Witness Seminar on the Emergence of Experimental Economics.
History of Economics Society Annual Conference (Durham, June 2016): Roundtable Practical Challenges of Writing Recent History.
Seminar at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Marseille June 2016): The Experimental Turn in Economics
Visualisation Meeting of the COST group: Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500–1800 (Como, April 2016): Census of Newton’s first edition Principia.
History of Political Economy Annual Conference “Becoming Applied: the Transformation of Economics after 1970” (Duke University, April 2016) Learning How to Whisper in the Ear of Industry Regulators: the History of Early Applied Experiments.
American Economic Association & ASSA Annual Meeting 2016 (San Francisco, January 2016) Learning How to Whisper in the Ear of Industry Regulators: the History of Early Applied Experiments.
Texas A&M University (College Station, October 2015) The Experimental Turn: How Economics Became an Experimental Science.
Slovak Economic Association Meeting (Košice, October 2015): Networks of Chicago Economists.
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Economics Seminar (LSE, June 2015) Experimental Turn in Economics at the turn of the 1980s.
19th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Rome, May 2015): Rejecting Rejections – the Passive Reception of Experimental Economic.
History of Political Economy Annual Conference “Economizing Mind, 1870-2015. When Economics and Psychology Met ... or Didn't” (Duke University, April 2015): The ‘Sidney Siegel’ Tradition in Experimental Economics.
American Economic Association & ASSA Annual Meeting 2015 (Boston, January 2015) The Behaviorist Psychology Tradition in Experimental Economics.
Collaborators
Beatrice Cherrier (Ecole Polytechnique) various projects including future of quantitative methods in history of economics, not panicking and carrying a towel, world tasting of chocolate cake
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (Penn) the life and work of (the hidden) Alfred Zauberman
Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology) Census of extant copies of Newton's first edition Principias (1687)
Kevin Hoover (Duke University) prosopography of the AEA
Harro Maas (Lausanne) history of experimental economics
Julianne Werlin (Duke University) prosopography of English authors
more coming soon