Seminar Series on Political Economy – Master’s and PhD Programs in Political Economy: Session #2 with Tiago Mata
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This spring, the Political Economy Master’s programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon) and PhD programme (Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, ISEG – University of Lisbon, and FE – University of Coimbra) are hosting a seminar series on pressing issues in capitalist societies, held at Iscte from March 3 to May 28, 2026.
The series calls for an interdisciplinary perspective grounded in historical, political, institutional knowledge and imagination. It brings together leading scholars in the field of Political Economy to examine the rise of authoritarianism; the politics of quantification; the financialization of the economy and its impact on systems of provision, such as housing; the emergence of asset manager capitalism and growing wealth inequality.
Open to all, the Seminar Series on Political Economy is co-organized by DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, the Department of Political Economy at Iscte’s School of Social Sciences, and the Portuguese Association for Political Economy.
The upcoming session "Consumer price indexes and reproduction numbers, towards a history of public numbers", presented by Tiago Mata (University College London), will take place on 14 April 2026, at 18:00, at Iscte, Building 2, Auditorium B2.03.
Tiago Mata is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Amsterdam, Duke University, and the Technical University of Lisbon. His research focuses on the history and sociology of economic knowledge, especially its impact on mass culture and on the political economy of science and technology. Mata’s work has received several prizes and grants. From 2012 to 2016, he was the principal investigator on a European Research Council Starting Grant on the communication of economic knowledge. His research has appeared in journals including History of Political Economy, Enterprise & Society, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Journal of Economic Methodology.