Thursday, April 23, 2020 to Sunday, April 26, 2020
Session 1: 11:00 – 12:00
Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University) – Statistical Inference in Economics in the 1920s and 1930s: The Crop and Livestock Forecasts of the US. Department of Agriculture
Session 2: 12:15 – 13:15
Amanar Akhabbar (École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers [ESSCA]) – Some Statistical Studies at the Harvard Economic Research Project (HERP)
Break: 13:15 – 14:00
Session 3: 14:00 – 15:00
Paul Burnett (University of California, Berkeley) – The Chicago Agriculture Group and Their Use of Statistics as a Cold-War Weapon
Friday, April 24
Session 1: 11:00 – 12:00
Laetitia Lenel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) – Searching for a Tide Table for Business. Interwar Conceptions of Statistical Inference in Business Forecasting
Session 2: 12:15 – 13:15
Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) – The state, statistics and the ecology of index numbers (1860-1914)
Break: 13:15 – 14:00
Session 3: 14:00 – 15:00
Boris Samuel (Centre d’études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques [CESSMA])- Computation of macroeconomic estimates in some African countries
Saturday, April 25
Session 1: 11:00 – 12:00
Harro Maas (University of Lausanne) – A history of behavioural governance
Session 2: 12:15 – 13:15
Marcel Boumans (Utrecht University) – Pictorial Statistics
Break: 13:15 – 14:00
Session 3: 14:00 – 15:00
Thomas Stapleford (University of Notre Dame) – Data Revolution
Sunday, April 26
Session 1: 11:00 – 12:00
Mary S. Morgan (London School of Economics) – Reflections
Session 2: 12:15 – 13:15
Judy Klein (Mary Baldwin University) – Reflections (tentative)