Beatrice Cherrier

@Undercoverhist

Historian of postwar economics /THEMA (public, urban, applied, macro, gender). Researches bath-time stories

Je connais tous les chemins de mon pays
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    30 Apr 2017

    A list of all sorts of people who sometimes tweet about history of economics. Shout if I forgot someone

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    Dec 5

    We encourage applications from scholars trained as economists, historians is science, philosophers, intellectual historians, sociologists, ...

    The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is accepting Fellowship Applications for the 2020-21 academic year. For a complete description of the Fellowship Program and how to apply, please visit the Center website at .
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    Dec 5

    The paper that won the Storep Prize is now avaiable as a wp Agnès LE TOLLEC, “Home Economics as an Art of Improving Family Welfare: Creating a Rational Consumer, 1924-1945“

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    Dec 2

    Ergodicity economics: what it's all about, out today in Download the free PDF at

    Our December issue is out! Featuring antiferromagnetic order collapse, re-entrant superconductivity and a fresh look at the ergodicity problem in economics …
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  5. Dec 4

    Feldstein's rendition of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" "There arose such a clatter A voice that was crying That money could matter ... The Keynesian thinkers Were spinning around When onto the scene, Milton came w/ a bound He was dressed all in gold"

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    Dec 3

    If you missed WERISE conference last May, the video is up! See the talks for the first time or relive it all at . Thanks to

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  7. Dec 3

    the second takeaway is the sheer number of faculty and students who think history of economics should be part of graduate education, which I have a hard reconciling with the almost complete disappearance of such courses in US econ grad programs

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    Dec 3
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    Some material from MIT.

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    Dec 3

    It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of _The Age of Hiroshima_, edited by G. John Ikenberry and myself, a project built over 4.5 years to explore the nuclear revolution on the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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    Dec 3

    Listen to our new Episode 18, in which talks with Dennis Rasmussen about David Hume and Adam Smith. We discuss their friendship and mutual influence, the Scottish Enlightenment, friendship in science, and more. Listen here:

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  11. Dec 3

    one interesting takeaway from current discussions is that, even among US PhD programs, what is taught as "core macro" and whether anything should be taught at all is still pretty unstabilized

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  12. Dec 3

    I'm not sure the process was either fast (except in a few Pontryagin/Bellman related places like Carnegie) or uniform across departments & professors (Dornbush, Blanchard & Krugman probably had ≠ views of what "core macro" should be). Would be interesting to document this

    Very rapidly, the IS-LM model was replaced by a course in dynamic stochastic programming. I’m not sure that was entirely a positive event. Especially because most schools also stopped teaching economic history and history of thought. 2/n
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    Dec 2

    This is an important thread. While agree with that macro belongs in the core - that has meant very different things during the time I have been a macroeconomist. In the 1970s it meant the IS-LM model, even in graduate school. 1/n

    Why don’t we have a little poll? I think macro is not foundational to economics (anymore) and should be relegated to 2nd year field classes in the PhD curriculum. If you say yes, please also comment on what if anything should replace macro:
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    Dec 2

    Many impressive candidates in the junior academic job market for economists this year. Yet, the evolution of career path makes me wonder. Predoc, 6 year PhD, postdoc... career progression has slowed down. Less and less family friendly? Adverse effects on gender bias?

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    I'm not advocating abolishing first year macro. But the fact that people in the field of macro do important work is not under debate. There's important work in i.o., development, labor, research ethics, history of econ thought, etc. and those are not usually part of 1st year.

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    Nov 30

    If economists interpreted fables the same way we interpreted models, the conclusion of the tortoise and the hare would be that the optimal speed to run is 1.53km per hour

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    Dec 2

    This whole debate about the relevance of macro got me thinking... I’m a macroeconomist. The 1st year macro sequence was crucial. So, is my work irrelevant? What have I contributed in the last 10 years to the profession? Here is my grain of salt (1/11)

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    Dec 2

    🔴 aux 13 militaires français morts au Mali. Regardez la cérémonie en direct des Invalides et en présence du Président de la République.

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    Nov 30

    Macro folks: You've got an entire year with every single person pursuing a PhD in economics. A whole year to convince them that macro shouldn't be ignored. Micro theory folks: same. Metrics folks: same Take that challenge seriously for the sake of your field. We need you. 2/2

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    Dec 1

    I can't believe I'm commenting on this again, but of course macro matters. Health econ matters. IO matters. Should all of these be full courses in the econ PhD core? And even if it should be in the core, that doesn't mean it can't be taught better to address these policy issues.

    Confession: I am a macro economist. But I also love applied micro, micro theory and econometrics. I admire the care of identification in reduced form applied micro, the careful modeling in structural micro and in economic theory, and the depth of analysis in metrics.…
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    Fwiw I feel macro would be better if it were more growth-oriented (can teach mostly with undergrad models) than dynamic optimization oriented... growth course I took from Chad Jones and was probably best "core" training I got outside my specialty as a b-school PhD

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    My view is that core macro would be much better taught as history of economic thought than as DSGE/NK. But my view is also that core micro should be taught by applied people...

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    Confession: I am a macro economist. But I also love applied micro, micro theory and econometrics. I admire the care of identification in reduced form applied micro, the careful modeling in structural micro and in economic theory, and the depth of analysis in metrics. 1/n

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    Dec 1

    Ok, not to be annoying, but did anyone seriously endorse removing Macro from the first year sequence? Or is this just a strawman that is invading my timeline?

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  25. Nov 30

    This is The Wire's next season, and it has all the ingredients of the previous ones

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    You won't be asked that often, so go for it ( also worth saying why your macro prof nailed it when you enjoyed the class)

    Most importantly, I would be interested to hear from the micro folks where we macros have failed or are failing you. What is it about first year instruction that you hate(d)? What is it about our job talks that you find opaque?
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    Nov 30

    Hiiiiiiiii

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    Nov 30

    Why don’t we have a little poll? I think macro is not foundational to economics (anymore) and should be relegated to 2nd year field classes in the PhD curriculum. If you say yes, please also comment on what if anything should replace macro:

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    Nov 28

    What happened to women in science after WWII in one § From Margaret Rossiter incredible giant history, *Women Scientists in America* volume 2, 1995.

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    Nov 27

    I wanna do an Indicator series for end of December on history's weirdest financial bubbles. Kindly share any ideas, with extra points for bizarreness and obscurity

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  31. Nov 27

    This is very, very good: "Some generic advice for PhD students"

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    Nov 27

    But grad school can be a beautiful time - you get to grow as a scholar with minimal responsibilities. You're building human capital, learning how to do research. You can spend all day reading or doing data analysis and not worry about other deadlines & draws on your energy. 9/N

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  33. Nov 27

    was wondering whether historians(me included) share responsibility, having mostly documented intellectual contributions of lone white male geniuses. But I bet no single student decided to enter econ grad program based on reading history of econ, so no influence, no responsability

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  34. Nov 27

    My sense is that economists have developed "narratives" (what's a good/successful/socially useful/happy career & research) for the elite. But there's no narrative for the profession as a whole, for how average econs fit into the plan. Not sure it's ≠ in other disciplines tough

    There are other schools out there. I know it's somewhat harder to get a job out of a lower-ranked PhD program, but I also know from experience that it can work out well. Faculty at lower-ranked schools may care more about individual students' thriving. 4/N
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    Nov 27

    I do think we need to be authentic and real about the challenges. But I think it's bullshit to say or imply that you can't do an econ PhD without not only x, y, and z math and having already taken the econ PhD core, and being superhuman in ability to suffer. Not true. 2/N

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    Nov 27

    On econ PhD & how hard it is, & . I've debated whether to post this because I respect & honor others' feelings & experiences. But I think there's a fine line between authentically sharing difficult experiences, and creating an echo chamber of competitive misery. 1/N

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    Nov 27

    Demain au Cercle d'Epistémologie (18h00, Maison des sciences économiques à Paris): Pierre Dockès () animera la séance sur le thème : « Le capitalisme peut-il survivre? Retour eschatologique ou rupture systémique? »

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    Nov 27
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    Leamer's "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics" (1983 AER) is a timeless classic for those. Just one highlight: "Methodology, like sex, is better demonstrated than discussed, though often better anticipated than experienced"

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    Nov 27

    an idea that introduced me to is ‘profession archetypes’ — ie for every field, there’s a dominant archetype, w/shared background, maps of orientation, experiences etc. this can be blinding. adding new genes to a profession’s population can be very generative

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    In particular, by selecting so strongly on certain kinds of aptitudes and temperament, we may be blocking the entry of many who would really enrich the discipline
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