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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

computer, data, epistemology, forecast, prediction

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

applied, computer, Econometrics, empirical, Fed, forecast, macroeconomics, MIT, policy, prediction, simulation

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

applied, computer, data, empirical, facts, John Bates Clark Medal, patrons, policy, quasi-experiments

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

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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

applied, computer, empirical, simulation, Theory

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

applied, computer, empirical, simulation, Theory

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

applied, computer, simulation, Theory

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

applied, chronology, computer, simulation, Theory

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

applied, computer, Econometrics, empirical, Theory

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