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Thomas Delcey, HOPE Center Fellow, "'The Eyes and Ears of the Agricultural Markets': A History of Information in Interwar Agricultural Economics"

Lunch

Friday, September 24, 2021

12:00 PM

Location: 113 Social Sciences

This article, written with Guillaume Noblet, offers a historical analysis of the contributions of U.S. interwar agricultural economics to the economics of information. Concerned with improving the circulation of information on agricultural markets, agricultural economists analyzed the relationship between agents’ information and the behavior of prices on agricultural commodity exchanges, thus anticipating modern debates on informational efficiency. We show that these debates were part of a more general context of agricultural market reform led by the U.S. administration to...

John Singleton, University of Rochester, "'Economics is Not a Man's Field': CSWEP and the First Gender Reckoning in Economics (1971-1991)"

Workshop

Friday, October 1, 2021

3:30 PM

Location: 113 Social Sciences

This paper, written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Beatrice Cherrier, is a history of the first gender reckoning in U.S. economics, which began in the early 1970s. Based on hitherto closed archives of the American Economic Association (AEA), we reconstruct the historical context that led to the establishment of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) in order to unpack its successes and failures, the enthusiasm it generated, and the resistance it encountered. We first show that then (as now), the birth of CSWEP was tied to larger social...

Vincent Carret, HOPE Center Fellow and University of Lyon 2, "Rupture and Continuity in the Original Divide between Micro-dynamics and Macro-dynamics"

Lunch

Friday, October 8, 2021

12:00 PM

Location: 113 Social Sciences

In 1933, Ragnar Frisch introduced a distinction between micro-dynamics and macro-dynamics in his paper on "Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics." His claim that he proposed the first macro-dynamic analysis and that micro-dynamic schemes were limited to the dynamics of specific markets or behaviors had a lasting impact on the field. But the introduction of this separation created a narrative hiding what had been done before and introduced a tension between the two approaches. By going back to the content of micro-dynamic analysis, we are led to two...