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The butcher and the storyteller: the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize and the role of mathematics in economic theory

Written with Aurélien Saïdi (draft version with more footnotes and full references here) The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic…

growth, macroeconomics, mathematics, Theory

Understanding the development of contemporary economics through major controversies : syllabus, lecture summaries and reflections

This Spring I taught a history of recent economics course to undergraduate students majoring in mathematics and economics. The syllabus…

data, epistemology, facts, mathematics, narrative, reading list, teaching, Theory

History of economics tweetstorms: an index

Over the past 2 years, I have written some tweetstorms or threads on such and such history of economics topics.…

cleaning-up, library, reading list, twitter

CFP: The role of workshops, seminars and conferences in the history of economic thought

CALL FOR PAPERS  The role of workshops, seminars and conferences in the history of economic thought Beatrice Cherrier (CNRS & Université…

Les économistes dans la cité au XXe siècle

Note: ce texte est l’ébauche d’une introduction à la seconde partie d’un manuel sur l’histoire de l’économie dirigé par Samuel Ferey…

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Is Gender Equality Political? The American Economic Association’s reaction to the Equal Rights Amendment debate in the 1970s

Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and John Singleton The 1979 annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association was held in Atlanta…

AEA, CSWEP, gender, women in economics

Heterogeneous agents macroeconomics has a long history, and it raises many questions

A cornerstone of thoughtful and lazy criticisms of mainstream macroeconomics alike is the idea that macroeconomists have spent 40 years…

Heterogeneous Agent models, macroeconomics, Minnesota

Working on 1960s macroeconometrics : there’s an echo on the line

Three years ago, a group of historians of economics embarked on a reexamination of the relationships between theoretical and empirical…

macroeconometrics, macroeconomics, microfoundations

How ‘tractability’ has shaped economic knowledge: a few conjectures

Yesterday, I blogged about a question I have mulled over for years: what is the aggregate consequence of the thousands…

What is the cost of ‘tractable’ economic models?

Edit: here’s a follow-up post in which I clarify my definition of ‘tractability’ and my priors on this topic Economists study…

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