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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

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

How not to screw up your economic expertise: lessons from the Kennedy tax cut grandmaster, Walter Heller

  What is the “crisis in economic expertise” about? Trump’s decision to demote whoever might be nominated chairman of the … More

expertise, macroeconomics, policy

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

Cowles, Econometrics, financial crisis, forecast, Friedman, Klein, macroeconomics, policy, prediction

Les économistes face à la défiance de la société civile: faut-il déclarer la guerre des nombres?

Crise de confiance, crise de l’expertise, crise du nombre Les économistes sont au bord de la crise de nerf, prévient … More

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The making of economic facts : a reading list

That Donald Trump’s first presidential decisions included gagging the EPA,USDA and NASA, asking his advisors to provide “alternative facts” on … More

crisis, data, expertise, facts, policy, quantification, reading list, statactivism

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

Phillips, Laffer and Gatsby: on economists obsessing about curves

On Monday, if I make it through strikes, river floods, and tear gas, I’ll be taking a course on the … More

Gatsby Curve, Laffer Curve, narrative, Phillips Curve, policy

History of policy evaluation: a few questions

I need a history of policy evaluation. I want my students to know why and how the theories, tools and … More

policy, policy evaluation

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