History
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Economics as engineering III: Carnegie stories
Mar 23, 2014
The “economics and engineering” line of argument is part of economists’ rhetoric.
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Macrowars, economists' narratives, and my dreamed history of macro
Mar 2, 2014
The last straw in the enduring blog debate over microfoundations has taken a decisive historical turn.
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Is Italy's New Government Just More of the Same?
Feb 22, 2014
A showdown has taken place within Italy’s governing coalition.
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Thomas Scheiding: A history of scholarly communication in economics
Feb 10, 2014
We invited Thomas Scheiding from Cardinal Stritch University to review what we know about the scholarly communication process in economics. Tom has written forcefully on the history and economics of economic literature (see for instance, his 2009 JEM article). His latest is a study of the scholarly communication process in physics (an article in Studies).
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Working Paper Series
Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises and Consequences
Feb 2014
Two separate narratives have emerged in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. One interpretation speaks of private financial excess and the key role of the banking system in leveraging and deleveraging the economy. The other emphasizes the public sector balance sheet over the private and worries about the risks of lax fiscal policies. However, the two may interact in important and understudied ways.
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Macroeconomics in Perspective
Jan 31, 2014
Last week the “Macroeconomics in Perspective Workshop” was held at the Department of Economics of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), in Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
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Roiling India Politics Risks Economic Reforms
Jan 24, 2014
India’s economic leaders are determined to rein in skyrocketing inflation, but the country’s volatile political landscape may prevent reforms from taking hold.
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Winter School on Law and Finance
WorkshopJan 5–8, 2014
The Institute will host the Winter School on Law and Finance at Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris on January 6-9, 2014.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014
Free from What? Evolving Notions of 'Market Freedom' in the History and Contemporary Practice of US Antitrust Law and Economics
This research project investigates the reasons behind the US financial crisis by applying the tools of the history of economic thought to the postwar evolution of US antitrust law and economic
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014
A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Sraffa
This research project contends that Piero Sraffa tried to develop an economic theory that could stand up as an alternative to the orthodox theory of value and provide a foundation for the Keynesian and post-Keynesian alternatives.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014
The Southern Homestead Act and Black Economic Mobility
This research project follows freed slaves from when they first applied for their land under the Southern Homestead Act until 1900 to learn how access to free land influenced their economic progress.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014
Replication in Empirical Economics
This research project replicates a large number of studies by teaching replication to students, with the results included in a wiki project about the replicability of research.
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Years granted:
2013, 2014
The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment: IMF Conditionality, 1986-2011
This research project creates a systematic and publically available database of macroeconomic and structural conditions in all IMF loan agreements signed after 1987.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Spillovers to Slavery: The Long and Short Run Economic Impacts of Slavery in the USA
This research project constructs new measures of slavery as a state-sanctioned property rights institution and documents how slavery impacted economic development in US history.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Economic Theories and Historical Consequences: Rethinking the Canon of Economics
This research project deepens the understanding of the history of economics as a discipline by making economic texts of historical importance available to students and scholars and by translating the important historical works of economics into English.