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
The problem with “economists-failed-to-predict-the-2008-crisis” macrodeath articles
This week has delivered one more interesting batch of economics soul-searching posts. On Monday, the Bloomberg View editorial board has outlined … More
The Undercover Historian 