Edit September 2021. I have organized my thoughts on tractability into a short paper available here. Edit: here’s a follow-up…
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…
Why I tweet
Tweeting from scratch only requires a computer and an hour time. Set up an account, choose a name for your…
Defining Excellence in economics: 70 Years of John Bates Clark Medals
Andrej Svorenčík and I have a new working paper on the history of the John Bates Clark medal (SSRN and SocArXiv links). We…
How about every historian of science nominates a candidate for the Golden Goose Award?
This morning, while searching for material on the history of mechanism design, I stumbled on the Golden Goose award webpage.…
Speculations on the stabilization and dissemination of the “DSGE” trade name (in progress)
Some research I’ve done for the history of macroeconometric modeling conference that will be held in Utrecht next week led…
The Undercover Historian 