The butcher and the storyteller: the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize and the role of mathematics in economic theory

Written with Aurélien Saïdi (draft version with more footnotes and full references here) The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic…

Understanding the development of contemporary economics through major controversies : syllabus, lecture summaries and reflections

This Spring I taught a history of recent economics course to undergraduate students majoring in mathematics and economics. The syllabus…

Over the past 2 years, I have written some tweetstorms or threads on such and such history of economics topics.…

CALL FOR PAPERS The role of workshops, seminars and conferences in the history of economic thought Beatrice Cherrier (CNRS & Université…

Note: ce texte est l’ébauche d’une introduction à la seconde partie d’un manuel sur l’histoire de l’économie dirigé par Samuel Ferey…

Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and John Singleton The 1979 annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association was held in Atlanta…

A cornerstone of thoughtful and lazy criticisms of mainstream macroeconomics alike is the idea that macroeconomists have spent 40 years…

Three years ago, a group of historians of economics embarked on a reexamination of the relationships between theoretical and empirical…

Yesterday, I blogged about a question I have mulled over for years: what is the aggregate consequence of the thousands…

Edit: here’s a follow-up post in which I clarify my definition of ‘tractability’ and my priors on this topic Economists study…