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Back to Front: The Role of Seminars, Conferences and Workshops in the History of Economics
This paper introduces twin special issues of the Revue d’Économie Politique on the role that seminars, workshops and conferences have played in the history of economics in the 20th century. Our goa ...
Revue d'Economie Politique 2021/4 (Vol. 131), Pages 609 à 635, 2021
The Age of the Applied Economist: The Transformation of Economics since the 1970s
It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transfor ...
History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 1–33., 2017
Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes
In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification system used by the American Economic Association (AEA) to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the tr ...
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 55, No. 2, J 2017 (pp. 545-79), 2017
Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal
Before the John Bates Clark Medal (JBCM) has become a widely acknowledged professional and public marker of excellence in economics research, in the first twenty years since its inception more than se ...
Forthcoming in the Journal for the History of Economic Thought 37 Pages , 2020
Economists' Interest in Collective Decision After World War II: A History
This paper tracks economists’ rising, yet elusive and unstable interest in collective decision mechanism after World War II. We replace their examination of voting procedures and social welfare func ...
Public Choice, 2017, vol 172 (1-2), 23-44, 2017
A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford
This paper documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the 20th century. We elucidate how this cross-fertilization was mediated by the institutional st ...
History of Political Economy, 2020, 52(S1), 85-111 , 2020