@undercoverhist
Historian of applied economics (macro, public, urban, ag, env, design, tractability, computational econ & more) CNRS & CREST, Ecole Polytechnique
Le jardin abrite un pavillon de thé japonais dessiné par Masso Nakamura où il est possible d'assister (séparément), à une cérémonie de thé selon l'école Urasenke ou Omotesenke Les visites et cérémonies reprennent fin Septembre (à reserver dès maintenant)
La visite était guidée, dans mon cas, par un étudiant passionant de l'école du Louvre qui a abordé l'histoire de l'hotel, et surtout des meubles: contexte politique, techniques artistiques, symboles et representations religieuses, etc... La visite est suivie d'une dégustation de thé
Le lieu présente désormais des meubles impériaux chinois, dont des armoires et une série de paravents époustouflantes (première photo copyright Nicolas Fussler, les autres de moi). Lien vers le lieu: www.guimet.fr/fr/maison-gu...
Pour peu de consolation entre deux crises d'écoanxiété, de rage féministe, d'hébétude (géo)politique, je conseille vivement la visite de l'hôtel d'Heidelbach, une partie du @museeguimet.bsky.social qui réouvert il y a quelques mois. Visite sur reservation uniquement, donc par groupe de 15-18 max
If you have written or know any paper that includes some reflection on how to write the history of a field in economics or another discipline, please add the reference below (and yes, that includes applied theory)
Writing the history of applied fields in economics: Why? How? with Alexandre Truc, forthcoming EJHET papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It will be on Tuesday 18 lunchtime, and the session will be chaired by current EEA president Imran Rasul. We hope to see you there. Without spoiling too much, as any good history of economics story, the story of EEA begun with a rejected paper...
The European Economic Association turns 40 this year #econsky So if you're coming to EEA Dublin, @cescoeco.bsky.social, Aurelien Saidi and I will be presenting some research with @aurelien-goutsmedt.com & @juliengradoz.bsky.social on EEA's history www.eea-esem-congresses.org/sessions/eur...
4/4 Many of these economists, as it happens, were also concerned with teaching John Taylor and Bennett McCallum emerge as the pivotal characters in our narrative, and it was Carlin and Soskice who stabilized the model's name Comments and pushback welcome!
3/x we also document how the 3-equation NK model has not developed as an embodiment of a theoretical new neoclassical synthesis. Rather, it is primarily a creature of those many central bank economists trying to make sense and assess rapid yet pervasive 1990s shifts in monetary policy practices.
2/x We show how it leads to constant renegotiation of what is considered a "good" model in macroeconomics: is about simplicity, realism, consistency? Do these term even mean the same thing in academic conferences, central banks and the classroom?
1/x Aurélien Saïdi and I wrote a history of the 3-equation New Keynesian model, starting from an unusual angle: documenting the intertwining of research, pedagogical and policy goals in the development of a model Open access link to advance publication: read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
But I'm not willing to relinquish this approach to teaching (and researching). How to handle this in my classes? How to discuss this with students? Thx for suggestions
I don't think there isn't such thing, it's just not a relevant angle for me. Again at a conference lunch today, I was asked whether I side with some of my object of study against others and if not, how do I remain agnostic. My stance may create even greater cognitive dissonance in post-truth context
If there are former students around here, please send suggestions or more detailed feedback Second one is a first: a student makes the diagnosis below. I agree. I don't think of myself as a "constructivist", but I definitely remain agnostic about the theories and models presented
1h15, on revise le bac français, on corrige des copies et on prépare les jurys de demain à la frontale, parce qu'il fait 32 dedans et seulement 29,5 dehors -et c'est déjà un luxe d'avoir un dehors et une temperature sous les 30°.
Alain trannoy masterfully kicking off an interfield and interdisciplinary workshop at Lyon 3 on expertise in economics with these words "There are 3 sure things in life: death, global warming and taxation"
9/n She uses Solow's "sneakers" analogy to show he legitimized construction of clean worlds by their tentative character, by what is yet to come "Solow's article is in some way careless" Sargent later wrote, but at least he took risk (unlike Joan Robinson) (What God made grad students for?)
6/n while main apparatus to think about growth in 1950s (input-output) belongs to what historians of science calls early 'age of systems', it signals that economists nevertheless developed unique & diverse mathematical tool input-out associated with computer (as metaphor, tool & structure)
5/n Verena then asks whether one can really disentangle the context of growth, pervasive in the 1950s, the politics of growth, and economists’ work, from statistics to theory, which contributed to create the phenomenon and its associated forms of knowledge
2/n She emphasizes that Solow's 1956 paper began with an epistemological statement (piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Solow1...) Solow means theory as modeling and modeling as a CRAFT (assumptions should be made “reasonably” realistic). An art of compromises?
1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:
400 participants, 13 special sessions on a topic whose relevance to current events may not be entirely coincidental ("Economists under Pressure"), a program highlighting the variety of approaches and topics historians are working on these days: eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...
Next week, a sizable fraction of all historians of economics worldwide will convene in Nice for a one-of-a-kind event: for the first time, the European and American associations for the history of econ are organizing a joint conference @shoet.bsky.social www.eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...
Valeur de la vie, d'une course de taxi, du m2, d'un litre d'essence, de la grande barrière de corail, du travail domestique, du sang, du futur, etc... des objects parfois inattendus, des méthodes qui ont donné lieu à de nombreux débats
Félicitations à Antoine MISSEMER, qui a reçu la médaille de bronze du CNRS 2026 pour la section 40, sciences économiques et de gestion www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...