Edit 2015: since this post was written, a collective volume on the history of economics at MIT has been published. Free … More
Month: April 2013
The rise of economics as engineering I : setting the scene
The rise of the economist as engineer is, economists and historians say, an essential characteristic of the development of economics … More
A chronology of economics at Carnegie (in progress)
To illustrate the previous post on the difficulties in putting together a chronology, here is tentative chronology of economics at Carnegie. … More
On the difficulty of assembling a chronology and other F….moments in history of economics research
This year, I’m sharing an office with an econometrician on Mondays and with a geographer on Fridays (you don’t want … More
History of applied economics: now what?
Crossposted from the INET Playground There is a “tendency to neglect applied economics in writing the history of economic thought,” Roger … More
The Undercover Historian 