"Econometrics at Harvard" is a chapter, written with Michaël Assous, in the forthcoming Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics, edited by Robert Cord.

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...