History
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The Dynamics of the Chicago / MIT Dispute (in the Archives)
Mar 4, 2012
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Three Questions to Judy Klein
Feb 27, 2012
Judy Klein is Professor of Economics at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. She is the author of Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis 1662-1938, (Cambridge 1997) and co-editor of The Age of Economic Measurement (Duke 2001), and co-author of The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality (in preparation)
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Professor Ponzi, or thinking about the methodology, the sociology and the economics of economics
Feb 8, 2012
I am writing from my notes. The event I want to report took place some two months ago, I have since been preoccupied, then occupied, and now increasingly overwhelmed.
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Marion Fourcade and historians of economics: a quiet revolution?
Jan 15, 2012
In recent years, an increasingly significant part of the history of economics has modeled itself after the methodologies developed by Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars.
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How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
Jan 5, 2012
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
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How God, Adam Smith, and the invisible hand changes over time
Jan 5, 2012
So with a suitably provocative title I think we can declare 2012 open.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
English Agricultural Markets and the State: The Corn Returns, 1685-1864
This research project offers a radical reconsideration of the centrality of the Corn Returns to the development of classical liberal political economy and shows how much the Corn Laws enriched agrarian interests and how their repeal represented a boost to British manufacturing.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
Protocols of War and the Driving Force of Modeling Strategy
This research project examines how US military needs during World War II and the Cold War steered engineers and applied mathematicians to an economic way of thinking about scarce resources, including limited computational resources, and how economists subsequently incorporated that into mathematics.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
Emergency Preservation of Federal Bankruptcy Court Records, 1940-2000
This research project documents long-run trends in personal bankruptcy, with special emphasis on the use of the bankruptcy law at the local level and among women.
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At Home in Economics
Nov 29, 2011
My friend read somewhere that the experience of death makes people think in philosophical terms. He might have thought of religion rather than philosophy, I replied. We agreed, and wandered off talking about our crypto-religious experiences in good old secular Europe.
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Student discontent, teaching economics, and Robin Wells's suggestions for shifting our perspective: A historical case
Nov 20, 2011
On November 2nd, I was sitting in the Hayden Library Special Collection reading room at MIT, browsing archives on the undergraduate and graduate students’ discontent during the early 70s and the response of the economics department faculty.
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Does econ blogging open new conversations (part II): lessons from Mike Konczal, Noah Smith, Mark Thoma and Milton Friedman
Nov 15, 2011
The INET roundtable on “new conversations and the academy” took place a week ago. Most panelists were bloggers, including Mike Konczal from RortyBomb and Noah Smith from Noahopinion.
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These dangerous postmodern relativists, Part I: Merchants of doubt
Nov 14, 2011
A recent e-mail conversation I had with Harro Maas concerning one of my latest drafts (shameless self-promotion) made me buy and read Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s, Merchants of Doubts.
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Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman: How can history stimulate new economic thinking?
Nov 11, 2011
The following text was sent to us by Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman, we reproduce it in its entirety.
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Backhouse and Bateman want Worldly Philosophers, not only dentists; not everyone agrees
Nov 9, 2011
Professors Roger Backhouse and Brad Bateman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times a few days ago, arguing that “thanks to decades of academic training in the “dentistry” approach to economics, today’s Keynes or Friedman is nowhere to be found” - we have stopped thinking big they say.