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Making things technical : Samuelson at MIT

Maas, Harro - 2014

This paper examines how Samuelson defined his own role as an economist as a technical expert, who walked what he called "the middle of the road" to - seemingly - stay out of the realm of politics. As point of entry I discuss the highly tempting offers made by Theodore M. Schultz in the 1940s to...

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Who runs the AEA?

Hoover, Kevin D.; Svorenčík, Andrej - 2020 - Version, 27 November 2020

The leadership structure of the American Economics Association is documented using a biographical database covering every officer and losing candidate for AEA offices from 1950 to 2019. The analysis focuses on institutional affiliations by education and employment. The structure is strongly...

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"I had always operated on the outside" : a conversation with E. Roy Weintraub on the history of economics, science studies and academic morals

Giraud, Yann - 2019

A transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub on his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub's early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary...

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Emigration with a pulled handbrake : Friedrich A. Lutz's internal Methodenstreit

Grudev, Lachezar - 2021

My paper reconstructs the path of German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901−1975) to American economics. The correspondence with his former teacherWalter Eucken, the founder of the Freiburg School, constitutes a crucial and yet unexplored source for the paper. Through Lutz's case, I demonstrate...

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Recent engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish enlightenment

Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans - social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th century Scots...

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How economists ignored the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918-20

Boianovsky, Mauro; Erreygers, Guido - 2021

The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This … differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features …, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the reasons for that, by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists …

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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

Gradoz, Julien - 2025

Harry Gordon Johnson, who was a member of the journal's editorial board at the time. Over the years, these three economists … intellectual environment surrounding the article's conception and to highlight the relationships between these three economists. …

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In search of lost reason

Marouzi, Soroush - 2024

I argue that the outbreak of the Great War facilitated a shift in the dominant view of human nature within the Cambridge-Bloomsbury intelligentsia, steering it away from an optimistic view toward a pessimistic one. The conceptualization of human reason and rationality within this group, however,...

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"Writing history as a way of life" : the life and work of Margaret Garritsen de Vries

Laskaridis, Christina - 2022

The name of Margaret Garritsen de Vries may not be the first that pops into people’s mind when thinking about the International Monetary Fund. It is through her work, as long-standing official Fund Historian, that those interested in the Fund history will travel through. An operational...

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Women and economics : new historical perspectives

Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo; Forget, Evelyn L.; … - 2022

mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists …

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