Tag Archives: Friedman

A game of mirrors? Economists’ models of the labor market and the 1970s gender reckoning

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaigouche and John Singleton The underrepresentation of women in science is drawing increasing attention from scientists as well as from the media. For example, research examining glass ceilings, leaking or small pipelines, the influence of mentorship, biases … Continue reading →

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The making and dissemination of Milton Friedman’s 1967 AEA Presidential Address

Posted on November 27, 2017 by

Joint with Aurélien Goutsmedt In a few weeks, the famous presidential address in which Milton Friedman is remembered to have introduced the notion of an equilibrium rate of unemployment and opposed the use of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic policy … Continue reading →

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The problem with “economists-failed-to-predict-the-2008-crisis” macrodeath articles

Posted on February 10, 2017 by

This week has delivered one more interesting batch of economics soul-searching posts. On Monday,  the Bloomberg View editorial board has outlined its plans to make economics more of a science (by “tossing out” models that are “refuted by the observable world” … Continue reading →

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