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