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New book: Uncertainty in Economics: A History, by Carlo Zappia amzn.to/3JIlTnc

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (@actesrss.bsky.social) a 50 ans. Pour l’occasion, nous publions un numéro spécial. Anniversaire oblige, ce numéro double comporte aussi des surprises. Un 🧵: shs.cairn.info/revue-actes-...

1/n Latest on history of credit feuds in Econ: Herrade Igersheim ties many existing account of well-known longstanding priority dispute between Duncan Black & Ken Arrow over the median voter theorem with a layer of new archives [open access] link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I feel I've just peaked in terms of "slide prep view." I can retire now

" 'Le ministre des Impôts prélève aussi des idées, bien plus que des impôts.' Deux prix de livres d’économie sous le 'haut patronage du ministère de l’Économie et des Finances'" par Jean-Michel Chahsiche shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...

How to Become an International Intellectual? The Case of Thomas Piketty and “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by Constantin Brissaud and Jean-Michel Chahsiche scispace.com/pdf/how-to-b...

Seminar room upgrade

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: With the attempted firing of Lisa Cook by Donald Trump, the first Black woman appointed to the Federal Reserve Board, I think its important to examine the @federalreserve.gov's history of Racial Segregation. This is a long one www.crisesnotes.com/the-federal-...

6th JHET Online Writing Workshop series is kicking off soon. You can sign up until this Sunday, the 14th of September. Aimed at both non-native and native speakers writing about the history of economic thought and looking to improve their prose. Run by Paul Dudenhefer longtime editor at HOPE.

The Journal for the History of Economic Thought is now on Bluesky, give it a follow for updates on new articles, book reviews, and CfPs: jhetjournal.bsky.social

C'est raccord avec notre entretien du jour ;) www.alternatives-economiques.fr/clemence-car...

Les petits samedis matins même pas blêmes aux archives nationales

1/5 En fait, c'est un peu plus compliqué que ça : historiquement, les scénarios du Groupe 3 ont d'abord été développés pour le Groupe 1, qui avait besoin de projection des émissions de GES. Aujourd'hui, Groupes 1 et 3 collaborent étroitement, notamment sur la définition de la neutralité carbone.

Le groupe III du GIEC a un "biais technophile", donnant la priorité aux solutions technologiques et à l’innovation, au détriment d’autres options, comme la sobriété. C'est ce que démontre Jean-Baptiste Fressoz dans une étude historique passionnante ⤵️ www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

6) Discuss the economic and other causes of the world-wide growth of new nationalistic restrictions on international trade, in the interval between the last war and the present war. Wow, how modern is that?

Harvard departmental exam in economics, 1942 1/2 General essay questions: 1. Economic imperialism 2. The pre-requisites of lasting peace .... 6. The relation of economics to sociology and political science ... 20. Planned economies and human liberties www.irwincollier.com/harvard-unde...

Très utile, merci Mix

Two new special issues with historical perspectives on how economists shape public policies: 1. A JEM special issue edited by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social and Esther Sent with an intro here www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10..... More on 20th century and showcasing a variety of influence paths

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

"Magasin fermé pour contrôle amiante jusqu'à nouvel ordre" : après des années d'archives à l'étranger, la transition vers des fonds français vient avec son lot de problématiques locales ;)

Update: there's now a letter in support of Lisa Cook circulating: docs.google.com/document/d/1... You can sign it here if you're an economist docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In this cool new JEM paper, Yam Mayaan rigorously documents something that several of us have been teaching for years, aka that Arrow's general equilibrium theory is meant as a normative ideal - a research tool to investigate how markets do not self-regulate: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Let's be clear: Trump's attempts to fire Fed board member Lisa Cook is, first, "about purging black people from government" as @nathantankus.bsky.social reminds us here (www.politico.com/news/magazin...) , second, unsubstantiated so far, third, would...

Entendez-vous l'Eco, présenté par Aliette Hovine, change de format. L'émission devient hebdo avec 1 partie consacrée à l'actualité et l'autre plus centrée sur l'éclairage que nous apporte l'histoire de l'éco Pour la rentrée, nous avons essayé, nous avons essayé... www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

🎉 Join us for a free online event. 📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT. With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

My review of Verena Halsmeyer's unique book-length history of the Solow growth-model is online. It is a great look at modelling in economics, the particular MIT-style of modeling, as well as a great case-study of how academic and policy prestige come about.

Peter Temin has himself written on the history of economic history at MIT here: read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

At this point also why not Mr Universe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

What he does with the English language might qualify him for literature

1/3 Peter Navarro suggested that Trump should win an econ Nobel prize for his tariffs. Here's the reaction of econ Nobel winners: Maskin, Myerson: he has not played the academic game (aka published work in academic journals. Nobels are not awarded for policies www.newsweek.com/nobel-prize-...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

"Economy Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b... Meaning US may stop publishing reliable statistics on its current economic situation

Is there any game-theoretic framework showing some short or long-term benefit to EU in the Von der Leyen-Trump deal?

'Our journalists might die of hunger': AFP press agency warns Gaza team risk starvationhttps://www.france24.com/en/video/20250722-our-journalists-might-die-from-hunger-afp-press-agency-warns-gaza-team-risk-starvation?

I'll be speaking at this online webinar on 9th August about "coproducing quantitative measures of value laden concepts: case studies from wellbeing" drawing on my research with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social among other things. The other speakers are great! Register! docs.google.com/forms/d/1IH9...

Article: Economists and economics in policymaking: historical episodes and methodological perspectives (introduction to a special issue), by Ivan Boldyrev & Esther-Mirjam Sent doi.org/10.1080/1350...

WP: Identifying economic narratives in large text corpora -- An integrated approach using Large Language Models, by Tobias Schmidt, Kai-Robin Lange, Matthias Reccius, Henrik Müller, Michael Roos & Carsten Jentsch arxiv.org/abs/2506.15041

The new paper co-authored with @emsent.bsky.social just dropped! Check it out, it’s the intro to the forthcoming special issue of the JEM, all of the papers are already available, I’ll post sth more about it when it officially appears. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The list of talks at this year's THETS conference is available, looks awesome! And I hope that other Warwick people who are interested in the topic -- like @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social , @yuvalmillo.bsky.social , and Matthew Watson -- will be there as well thets.org.uk/2025-annual-...

From a presentation by Dan Hammermesh that I'm currently attending: Up to 2018, guess who's the economist who published the most papers in top-5 journals (spoiler: no it wasn't Acemoglu)

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] 1/n (Very) old arguments never die. Solow in 2000 - guess who he is writing to "first, I reiterate that I see no connection - other than incidental - between the theory of growth and the theory of distribution..

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Solow reflecting on why disequilibrium macro never caught on in the US (2000): "I always thought that those models never got fair shake from American macro, probably because their fixed-price assumption was so bald and unsupported..."

[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Arrow reflects on his lifetime research program in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis: "50 years ago, I thought I explained that general equilibrium theory could handle uncertainty. I now understand why I was wrong: it has to do with the distribution of information...

From the archives: Arrow's rec letter for Maskin (to Peter Diamond): the question is not whether Maskin is suited to MIT, but whether MIT is suited to Maskin

Doing archives next to Virginia Woolf's desk today. Quite intimidating

It was a blast. Each new generation of history of econ young scholars is better, bolder!

1/ Grateful to @willpooley.bsky.social for sending me his article “Who Believes in Belief?”—a sharp look at how slippery the word belief is, this time in the history of religious & magical practices. #History #philhist @rehpere.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social

1/ In a previous thread, I questioned the use of verbs like believe or think in the history of ideas. I argued that most of the time, what we're really trying to understand is what historical actors said or claimed, not what they believed deep down.