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