Professor Valeonti arrived at AUP in 2021. Before AUP, she was a research fellow at Duke University. She holds a PhD in Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
Valeonti is a historian of economics, especially interested in the history of monetary ideas and policies of 19th century US. Her research focuses on the interplay between economic theory, policy, and visions of economic development in the context of the monetary policy debates of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period (1865-1879). She is currently focusing her research to shed light on the role of monetary policies and ideas in the building of American capitalism during the Civil War and Reconstruction period, with particular emphasis on the way monetary policies affected the economic policies related to the status of the newly emancipated slaves.
Education/Degrees
- Ph.D. in Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2020)
- M.A. in History of Economic Thought (Master 1 & Master 2), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2015)
- B.A. in Economics, University of Crete (2013)
Publications
Journal Articles
- Valeonti, Sofia. 2020. “Simon Newcomb’s Monetary Theory: A Reappraisal.” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27 (6): 837 52. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2020.1790623. 2.
- Valeonti, Sofia. 2022. “Henry C. Carey’s Monetary Thought and American Industrialization in the Greenbacks Debate.” History of Political Economy 54 (2): 186-216. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-9699025.
- Dimand, Robert, and Sofia Valeonti. 2022. “Irving Fisher, Simon Newcomb, and Their Plans to Stabilize the Dollar.” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 29 (6): 1052-1065. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2022.2137550”
- Ron, Ariel, and Sofia Valeonti. 2023. “The Money War: An Interpretation of Democracy, Depreciation, and Taxes in the U.S. Civil War.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 47 (2): 263-268. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bead006
- Ron, Ariel, and Sofia Valeonti. Forthcoming. “Central Monetary Services without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Monetary Architecture.” History of Political Economy.
Book Review
- Valeonti, Sofia. 2020. Review of Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic, by Eric Lomazoff. History of Economic Ideas. (3)154-156.
Affiliations
- Associate researcher, PHARE, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- History of Economics Society (HES)
- European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
- European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
Research Areas
- Monetary and banking economics
- History of monetary theories and ideas
- International money and finance
- U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction (1865-1879)