In just 5 years, the mood at conferences on social science and big data has shifted, at least in France. … More
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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
Is there really an empirical turn in economics?
Full paper here. Reposted from the INET blog. French translation here. The idea that economics has recently gone through an … More
Assiste-t-on vraiment un “tournant empirique” en économie?
L’idée que la science économique est en train de connaitre un “tournant empirique” est partout. Elle est depuis quelques années … More
How the computer transformed economics. And didn’t
Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here. Initially published on … More
Further thoughts on historicizing the computerization of economics
Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here Why the computerization … More
9 ways computers have affected the development of economics
Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here “The rise of … More
The computerization of economics: a chronology (in progress)
Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here On Hardware, there’s … More
Theory vs data, computerization, old wine and new bottles: Morgenstern and Econometric Society fellows, 1953
The proposal In January 1953, Oskar Morgentern wrote Alfred Cowles to suggest a change in the Constitution of the Econometric Society … More