History
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Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)
Nov 3, 2011
This is the question I’m supposed to answer for an experimental INET conference aimed at inspiring new thinking through interdisciplinary conversation and collective reflection without rules.
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What's in a name?
Nov 2, 2011
In the case of utility, it’s all in the name.
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Nobel Prize Tasseology
Oct 25, 2011
Till is right. It’s not the historian’s task to question the legitimacy of the decisions of the Nobel Committee.
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“Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy”
Oct 19, 2011
It’s Nobel Prize time again. And what a beautiful prize this year it is!
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 4. The Teaching of Economics
Oct 1, 2011
This one is different. Tiago, Benjamin and Floris have asked a dozen economists in the Bretton Woods hotel hall to reflect on the way their teaching has been affected by the current economic crisis and their answers, taken collectively, are quite puzzling.
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 3. Models in Economics
Sep 24, 2011
I cannot resist but to start quoting Mary Morgan’s second entry to the second edition of the New Palgrave: “Modeling became the dominant methodology of economics during the 20th century.”
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Progress in Economics: A Comment
Sep 19, 2011
I thought I could use some of my illegitimate blog administrator’s privileges to participate in the discussion on the “progress in economics” post by Floris without being lost in the midst of other users’ comments.
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 2. Progress in Economics
Sep 17, 2011
Ok, time to deal with the elephant in the room: when is one theory better than the other? What is progress in economics?
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@Academia and Public, Berlin: Students as model publics
Sep 17, 2011
The transatlantic conference has been moving targets: sociology went first, then economics, then history, today it was political science and international relations.
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@Academia and Public, Berlin: And then it was all about the history...
Sep 15, 2011
It’s not everyday that one finds economists using history as not just the right way but the only way to answer a question.
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Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 1. Ethics in Economics
Sep 10, 2011
Our interviews in the halls of the Mount Washington Hotel, covered the range of opinion about the severity of conflicts of interest in economics: we are alright; economics is no more corrupted than other sciences; corruption is substantial; it is rotten to the core.
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A call to arms for Historians and Economists...
Sep 2, 2011
The Marshall Lectures often provide thought provoking talks and one talk in particular spoke to me looking at the relationship between history and economics:
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Disaggregate, disaggregate!
Aug 21, 2011
Last June at a History of Social Science workshop , David Engerman presented a paper on the Harvard’s Refugee Interview Project (1950-1954).
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Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011)
Aug 18, 2011
On this blog, we like to overstate quite a bit our irreverence towards the establishment and in particular our senior colleagues.
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The long - and tedious - road to rankings
Aug 15, 2011
To celebrate its 100 years of publishing, the AER published a special issues, whose retrospective part consisted of a list of the 20 most important articles, assembled by a committee which included Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow, and an essay on the history of the AER by Robert A. Margo.