The December 1971 meeting of the American Economic Association in New Orleans was a watershed, Denison University’s Robin Bartlett remembers. … More
Month: March 2017
Big data in social sciences: a promise betrayed ?
In just 5 years, the mood at conferences on social science and big data has shifted, at least in France. … More
The ordinary business of macroeconometric modeling: working on the MIT-Fed-Penn model (1964-1974)
Against monetarism? In the early days of 1964, George Leland Bach, former dean of the Carnegie Business School and consultant … More
How much do current debates owe to conflicting definitions of economics?
It is not clear to me how the literature on the current state of economics got out of control. The … More
The Undercover Historian 