WP: The Virtues of Clarity: Robert Dorfman, from Mathematical Programming to Environmental Economics, by Julien Gradoz papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am pleased to see this interview with Steve Medema published in the latest issue of Œconomia. In it, we look back on his experience as book review editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought and for History of Political Economy. journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...

A new issue of Œconomia. History | Methodology | Philosophy is available now journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...

A new issue of Finance and Society is available online. This issue features a special section on Central bank scientization www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A new academic year begins for Oeconomia (journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/) with a renewed team of editors for the book review section. Welcome to the new editors - I look forward to working with them! If you’d like to submit a book review or a proposal, feel free to contact me.

The special section on Central Bank Scientization in @finandsoc.bsky.social is now official out in Volume 11, Issue 2. Read all the papers here ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Many thanks to @aminsamman.bsky.social and Nathan Coombs for their support in the editorial process.

Working Paper: The Virtues of Clarity: Robert Dorfman, from Mathematical Programming to Environmental Economics by @juliengradoz.bsky.social @ssrn.bsky.social #econhist hope.econ.duke.edu/publications...

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

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.

Article: No More Than Exchanging Tools: Jacob Marschak and the Early Years of Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950–1956, by Catherine Herfeld & Edoardo Peruzzi buff.ly/WiJMiFG

J'ai l'immense plaisir d'annoncer que je rejoins l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 comme maître de conférences à la rentrée ! Hâte de débuter cette nouvelle étape et de découvrir un nouvel environnement académique. Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui m’ont soutenu dans ce parcours 🎉

What do economists do in central banks? How did they come to play such a central role? We're excited to share the first draft of a Cambridge University Press Elements book project on how economists became key figures in central banking over the twentieth century. ▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

For those in the Edinburgh area, Francesco Sergi and I will present Friday our special section on the "Scientization of Central Banks", soon to be published in @finandsoc.bsky.social Thanks to Nathan Coombs and the SKAPE center for inviting us. More info ➡️ www.skape.ed.ac.uk/events/

Article: “Economics Is Not a Man's Field”: CSWEP and the First Gender Reckoning in Economics, 1971–1991, by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Beatrice Cherrier & John D. Singleton doi.org/10.1215/0018...

My paper on the Indian Reception to Piero Sraffa where I focus on book reviews by 3 Indian economists is now published in the Centro Sraffa working paper series. www.centrosraffa.org/cswp_details...

👉Check out the paper of our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social and her PhD student Alexandra Quack on the role of narratives in transferring rational choice models into political science, published in 2023 in the journal History of Political Economy. read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

Who can name the economist on the right? Answer in the comments, as well as a link announcing the opening of his papers for research at the @rubensteinlib part of Economists' Paper Archive. A special thanks to @soroushm669531 for his work on this archive.

WP: A Note on the Origins of The General Theory of Second Best: The Accounts of Kelvin John Lancaster, Richard George Lipsey and Harry Gordon Johnson, by Julien Gradoz https://buff.ly/3PQ0mZt

WP: Promoting Statistical Methods to Engineers and Economists: Walter Andrew Shewhart and Statistical Quality Control, by Julien Gradoz https://buff.ly/3PJMSyj

CfP for the Cultural Economics Conference (ACEI) in Rotterdam coming June. Deadline for abstracts is February 1st.

With @thomasdelcey.bsky.social we are thrilled to release the first version of the French economics PhD database 🎉 tdelcey.github.io/becoming_eco... Using Sudoc and theses.fr data, we have collected metadata on most PhD defended in France in economics since 1900! #rstats #opendata #EconSky

WP: George Christopher Archibald and the Quest for the Substance of Monopolistic Competition, by Julien Gradoz https://buff.ly/3C3nMHC

New paper out w/ Julien Gradoz, in which we criticize the connection between the Alchian-Allen effect and the so-called iron law of prohibition: "the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs." Now out in the European Journal of Law and Economics

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Thrilled to announce the publication of my article with Erwin Dekker, "The regulation of repugnant goods and the limits of the Alchian–Allen effect", in the European Journal of Law and Economics 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s106...

📣Happy to share the publication in Oeconomia of a symposium co-edited with @cleocz.bsky.social on @epopppp.bsky.social great book "Thinking Like an Economist" journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/16... Great contributions by E. Nik-Khah @kaijzel.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social & G. Zanella

New issue of Oeconomia is out! journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/16...

Come hang with us, y’all! A fantastic environment for both junior and senior scholars doing research on the history of economics. And, of course, the terrific bbq in the area! hope.econ.duke.edu/fellowships

WP: Kelvin John Lancaster and the Distinction Between the “Goods are Goods” Approach and the “Characteristics” Approach to Demand Theory, by Julien Gradoz https://buff.ly/3ZpczdC

WP: The Regulation of Repugnant Goods and the Limits of the Alchian- Allen Effect, by Julien Gradoz & Erwin Dekker https://buff.ly/3C8Q4jn

[Extended deadline] Call for papers “Accounting for ‘Quality’ in Economics” Submissions deadline : April 15, 2024

Cfp: “Accounting for ‘Quality’ in Economics” is the title of the special issue Spencer Banzhaf, Christian Bessy, Erwin Dekker, Jean-Sébastien Lenfant, Stéphan Marette and I are co-editing for Œconomia.   Submissions deadline: March 30, 2024   More info: journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/16...