Whatever has happened to political economy

This Special Issue of the History of Economic Ideas collects four con-tributions presented at the 15th storep Annual Conference held at the University of Genoa: Geoffrey Hodgson’s keynote lecture, the sec-ond ‘Raffaelli lecture’1 delivered by Harro Maas and two papers selected from among those discussed at the conference. The Conference, which was entitled «Whatever Has Happened to Political Economy?», aimed to bring together economists and other social scientists analysing the re-lationship between political economy and economics in a historical per-spective. The numerous papers presented at the storep Conference contributed to identifying the principal turning points in the evolution of the economic discipline and its various research programmes within mainstream and heterodox economics.