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Big data in social sciences: a promise betrayed ?

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Beatrice

In just 5 years, the mood at conferences on social science and big data has shifted, at least in France. Back in the early 2010s, these venues were buzzing with exchanges about the characteristics of the “revolution” (the 4Vs) with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged computer, data, epistemology, forecast, prediction | 3 Comments

The ordinary business of macroeconometric modeling: working on the MIT-Fed-Penn model (1964-1974)

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Beatrice

Against monetarism? In the early days of 1964, George Leland Bach, former dean of the Carnegie Business School and consultant to the Federal Reserve, arranged a meeting between the Board of Governors and 7 economists, including Stanford’s Ed Shaw, Yale’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged applied, computer, Econometrics, empirical, Fed, forecast, macroeconomics, MIT, policy, prediction, simulation | 1 Comment

Is there really an empirical turn in economics?

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Beatrice

Full paper here. Reposted from the INET blog. French translation here. The idea that economics has recently gone through an empirical turn –that it went from theory to data– is all over the place. Economists have been trumpeting this transformation … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged applied, computer, data, empirical, facts, John Bates Clark Medal, patrons, policy, quasi-experiments | 6 Comments

Assiste-t-on vraiment un “tournant empirique” en économie?

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Beatrice

L’idée que la science économique est en train de connaitre un “tournant empirique” est partout. Elle est depuis quelques années omniprésente sur les blogs de certains économistes américains (mais c’est rarement pour la mettre en cause). Ces derniers mois, elle … Continue reading →

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How the computer transformed economics. And didn’t

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Beatrice

Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here. Initially published on the INET blog Below is a picture of what the desktop of MIT macroeconomist Franco Modigliani may have looked like … Continue reading →

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Further thoughts on historicizing the computerization of economics

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Beatrice

Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here Why the computerization of economics needs to be historicized I’m co-organizing a conference investigating whether the transformation of economics from the 1970s is … Continue reading →

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9 ways computers have affected the development of economics

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Beatrice

Edit: there is now a published paper based on this blog post. Published version here; draft here “The rise of applied economics from the 1970s onward is a consequence of computerization and better data.” This increasingly canonical narrative has the … Continue reading →

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