News

• March 2025: Elected at-large member of the History of Economics Society Executive Committee

• February 2025: Program Committee Member of the 21st  IEA World Congress 2026.

• January 2025: MIT's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography, to appear in  The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics.

• January 2025:  paper Networks of Historians of Economics: 50 Years of History of Economics Society Conferences published by the Journal for the History of Economic Thought.

• December 2024: Program Committee member of the The Historical Network Research Conference 2025, 21-23 May, 2025 in Rio de Janeiro 

• October 2024: updated worldwide list of Experimental Economics labs.

• Summer 2024: Re-elected as ESA Historian and SEA Executive Committee Member.

• June 2024: received a Research Grant Award from the Hoover Institution to visit its Archives at Stanford University.

• May 2024: elected Council Member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

• Organized the 16th HISRECO conference at Penn, May 3-4, 2024. The program is available here.

• April 2024: updated slides for Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman (old slides available here).

• 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: published an updated version of my worldwide list of experimental economics laboratories.

• March 2023: Economic Thought on Interwar Monetary Instability and the Problem of Central Bank Cooperation (invited speaker) National Bank of Slovakia

• January 2023: became an associate member of the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought at the University of Lausanne.

• 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 (2024) Networks of Historians of Economics: 50 Years of History of Economics Society Conferences. Journal for the History of Economic Thought. 46(4): 594 - 617.

• 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.

    • To appear in The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics edited by Robert Cord.

• 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

• Svorenčík, Andrej (forthcoming) MIT's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography. In: The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics (Edited by Robert Cord).

• 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.

  • Slovak translation appeared in: 365 Magazine about Arts. vol 6 (2021), s. 192-207.

• 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

• A Brief History of the International Economics Association (book project)

• 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)

• 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)

• Updated Census of Newton's Principia (1687)

Awards & Honors

• 2024 Research Grant Award, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

• 2024 Elected Council Member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought

• 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).

IEA History Project

• In 2025 the International Economic Association is turning 75. My book project commissioned by the IEA aims to provide a first comprehensive account of its history.

Newton's Principia (1687) Census

This project with Mordechai Feingold investigates the publication and dissemination of one of the most important scientific books, Isaac Newton's first edition of the Principia from 1687.  We show that the Principia had a broader and more competent early readership than previously acknowledged, and the number of printed copies was likely nearly double the previous estimates. Our census provides a fresh perspective on its initial dissemination and calls for a reassessment of the influence of Newtonianism on Enlightenment science. Latest updates:

• 2025: ongoing preparations for an updated census 

• 2024: examined 11 copies mostly on the US East Coast and Germany.

Upcoming/recent presentations

• 52nd History of Economics Society Meeting (June 2025, Richmond) Roundtable on Historiographic Methods & A Brief History of the International Economic Association.

• 27th European Society for the History of Economic Thought  conference (May 2025, Torino) The Birth of the International Economic Association.

• Slovak Economic Association Meeting (September 2024, Bratislava) The Birth of the International Economic Association.

• 51st History of Economics Society Meeting (July 2024, Santiago) .

• Dancing Diagrams, Numbers, and Other Things conference (June 2024, Lausanne) Talking to economists and making sense of it.

• Sovietology seminar (online, April 2024) Between the East and the West: The Life and Work of Alfred Zauberman.

• 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 conference (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?

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

• Thomas Delcey (Université de Bourgogne) and Aurelien Goutsmedt (UC Louvain) Databases of Economics PhDs

• Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay (University of Lorraine) Prosopography of ESHET

• 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

Profesional Service

• Co-organizer of the 16th History of Recent Economics Conference (2024)

• Economics Science Association

  • Elected ESA Historian (2018-2024, 2024-2027),

  • Member of the Executive Committee,

  • ESA Data Ad-hoc Committee, and formerly member of the Ethics Code Committee.

• European Society for the History of Economic Thought

  • Council Member (2024-2026),

  • Best Monograph Award Committee 2025.

• History of Economics Society

  • Member of the Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize (2020),

  • at-large member of the HES Executive Committee (2025-2029)

• International Economic Association

  • Council representative of the Slovak Economic Association (2024),

  • Program Committee Member of the 21st  IEA World Congress 2026.

• Slovak Economic Association

  • Vice-President (2021-2023),

  • Board Member (2016-present), 

  • Chair of the Statutes Reform Committe (since 2024)

  • previously Chair of the Slovak Economic Terminology group and Chair of the Ethics Code Committee.

• Session organizer at the American Economic Association & ASSA Annual Meetings

  • Session: Histories of Behavioral Economics, Boston, 2015,

  • Session: Merit and Privilege in Economics, Chicago, 2017,

  • Session: Historical Sociology Approaches in History of Economics, San Diego, 2020.

• University of Mannheim

  • Faculty of Law and Economics, Faculty Board Member (2015-2021), 

  • Selection Committee for Master's in Economics (2016-2021).

• Referee for Annals of Science, Applied Economics, History of Political Economy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, European Journal for History of Economic Thought, History of Economic Ideas, Journal of Economic Methodology, Oeconomia, Palgrave Macmillan, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Revue d’économie politique, and various science funding agencies.

• CFA Society Slovakia Economic Sentiment Panelist (since 2021).