Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and John Singleton The 1979 annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association was held in Atlanta…
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…
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…
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…
A game of mirrors? Economists’ models of the labor market and the 1970s gender reckoning
Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaigouche and John Singleton The underrepresentation of women in science is drawing increasing attention from scientists as…
Not going away: on Al Roth’s 2018 AEA Presidential Address and the ethical shyness of market designers
Encountering Al Roth’s ideas has always been a “squaring the circle” experience to me. The man is the epitome of…
The making and dissemination of Milton Friedman’s 1967 AEA Presidential Address
Joint with Aurélien Goutsmedt In a few weeks, the famous presidential address in which Milton Friedman is remembered to have…
Les économistes sont-ils sexistes?
Un pavé dans la mare des économistes Sexisme: le mot est sur les bouches de tous les économistes américains depuis…
On sexism in economics
A recent paper by Alice Wu, publicized by Justin Wolfers is creating a stir on the econ-twittosphere. The paper uses machine…
