The Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET) begun in 2013, as the Southampton Winter Workshop in Economic Theory (SWWET), organised annually by the Economics Department of the University of Southampton. In the first few years it was co-organised by Miltos Makris, who had the initial idea, Spyros Galanis and Max Kwiek. Although its core subject is Economic Theory, it has a strong interdisciplinary character, attracting speakers and attendants also from Computer Science, Political Science and Psychology. It has subsequently been co-organised by the Universities of Bristol (Francesco Giovannoni and Julia Wirtz), Carlos III (Angel Hernando-Veciana), City, Essex, Kent, and Durham. For a list of past workshops and speakers, click here.

In 2020, we started the Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory, which run weekly and provide a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad.  You can view YouTube recordings of past talks here. 

In 2023, it became the Makris Symposium in Economic Theory (MSET), in memory of Miltos Makris. Miltos passed away suddenly in 2022. He was a founding member for the workshop and instrumental for its success. Click here for a short bio.

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Organizers (in lexicographic order, where first dimension is number of workshops organized and second is alphabetical)

Spyros Galanis, Max Kwiek, Miltos Makris, Francesco Giovannoni, Julia Wirtz, Angel Hernando-Veciana, Maria Polukarov, Eugene Jeong, Christos Ioannou.