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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …