History
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A Conversation on the Economy
Oct 24, 2012
What do you get when you put two of the most well known and most widely cited economists in the world, both Nobel laureates, on stage together? A healthy dose of economic reality.
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The use of economists' biography, IV.
Sep 23, 2012
Excerpts from a draft introduction of Till Düppe’s and Roy Weintraub’s new book, under revision for Princeton University Press, presently carrying the working title “Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Transformation of Economic Theory
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The use of economists' biography, III.
Sep 19, 2012
“The aim would not be to unravel a hidden coherent structure of the philosophical, theoretical, political dimensions of his work, but to give a sense of the contingencies that his work was subject to – both in terms of its origins and its receptions. Don’t make up an Arrow that he himself was not aware of.” -Till to me, email conversation on Kenneth Arrow, summer 2012
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The use of economists' biography, II.
Sep 17, 2012
Excerpts from “Retrospect and Prospect,” the concluding remarks Bob Coats presented at (or maybe wrote after) the History of Economics conference held in 1972 at Bellagio to commemorate and reassess the 1870s “marginal revolution” (full proceedings here).
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The use of economists' biography, I.
Sep 17, 2012
Robert Solow, “Notes on Coping.” In Szenberg ed. Eminent Economists: their Life Philosophy, 1992, p270
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A Quick One (Message to Naomi)
Sep 13, 2012
Yesterday, I had my first introductory economics seminar with my new students.
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Keynes's 10 Professors... and a Major
Sep 1, 2012
I thought I was on to an inside reference when re-reading the General Theory when Keynes calls Marx, Edgeworth and others simply by name, but refers to “Professor Pigou” in several instances.
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Holiday announcements... History at the ASSA
Aug 21, 2012
Mid August, with the Olympics over, Paralympics and Premiership starting (that’s Soccer for the American readership), it is well and truly the quiet period for most of academia.
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Leakage as historiographic genre @ HES 2012
Jul 26, 2012
If the meetings of European historians of economics are urbane and cosmopolitan, the meetings of American historians are, by contrast, frank and toilful.
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Inclusive wealth and the history of GDP
Jul 16, 2012
The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) recently published the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012, in which the authors propose a measure of wealth based on the stock of capital present in a country, as opposed to the flow measure of GDP.
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Interdisciplinarity and education @H2S workshop
Jul 10, 2012
A few weeks ago, I attended the H2S 4th workshop on “Cross disciplinary ventures in postwar American Social Sciences,” (research program outline here).
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Economists Coming of Age
Jul 7, 2012
Last weekend, I was in Tübingen - very close to my home town: the same smell, the same surreal Swabian idyll that makes you think of Hölderlin and Hesse rather than DSGE.
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The less you know, the better?
Jul 7, 2012
A few days ago, I began researching on the history of a subfield of economics which was born in the sixties, then thrived and institutionalized itself in the early seventies.
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The Visible Hand Writing History
Jul 7, 2012
[We are inaugurating something new in this blog: a jointly written post!]
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Economics and computation in the postwar period: managing scarcity
Jul 1, 2012
“We choose this stochastic structure for computational reasons. This reduces the dimension of the variables. With (such and such) alternative, the computational burden would have dramatically increased.”