Publication Number: 2021-06 Publication Date: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 This working paper – like its companion, Caldwell and Klausinger 2021 – grew out of the authors’ joint work on Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 (Caldwell and Klausinger 2022) and it contains… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-05 Publication Date: Thursday, May 6, 2021 F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is famously based on the concept of spontaneous order, an order… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-04 Publication Date: Monday, April 26, 2021 Macroeconomics faced substantial internal and external criticism related to the 2007-09 financial crisis. Much of it was based on the unsustainable idea that its goal could or should… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-03 Publication Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 This paper discusses how economists contributed to OEEC-OECD policies between the 1950s and the 1960s, when OECD emerged as a truly global organization. We aim at offering a… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-02 Publication Date: Monday, February 22, 2021 Not much equates Michael Harrington, Dwight MacDonald, Orley Ashenfelter and James Heckman. But still history made a way to have, at one end of a story, a narrative journalist and a… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2021-01 Publication Date: Thursday, February 11, 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… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-13 Publication Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 In this paper I evaluate the Journal Impact Factor using a theory of measurement. I argue that JIF does not stand up to close scrutiny. To measure a concept adequately, our… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-12 Publication Date: Wednesday, December 2, 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… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-11 Publication Date: Monday, November 16, 2020 Before the use of mathematics in economics was generalized, mathematical and nonmathematically trained economist lived together. This paper studies this period of cohabitation. By… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-10 Publication Date: Monday, September 21, 2020 In this piece I look at just one small corner of science history touching on biology, psychology and political science. I tend to agree with Paul Feyerabend’s Against… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-09 Publication Date: Thursday, August 6, 2020 Evsey Domar put forward in a couple of articles in the 1940s a “guaranteed income growth proposal.” For the first time in macroeconomics, economic policy was supposed to work merely… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-08 Publication Date: Friday, June 26, 2020 The article considers the place of the neoclassical equilibrium model as the basis for current views of markets as fair, efficient, or both. It also points to three threats the model… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-07 Publication Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020 Friedrich Hayek devoted the later part of his career to investigating the legal rules required for the existence of a free society. The subject of this paper is Hayek’s treatment of… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-06 Publication Date: Friday, April 24, 2020 This paper provides a look into what Lucas meant by the term ‘analogue systems’ and how he conceived making them useful. It is argued that any model can be regarded as an analogue… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-05 Publication Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Duke’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory (CISSCT) hosted a two-year program on “Science Studies and Economics” from 2018-2020. This is a draft… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-04 Publication Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 This paper, based on previously untapped archival sources, offers an assessment of the life and thought of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, a pioneer of development economics and one of the… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-03 Publication Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 In the late 1970s Paul Samuelson drafted the outline of a paper, never published, with a critical assessment of the theoretical innovations of postwar development economics. He found… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-02 Publication Date: Monday, January 27, 2020 This paper is the first draft of the first substantive chapter of volume 2 of my biography with Hansjoerg Klausinger of F. A. Hayek. It looks at the first meeting of the Mont Pèlerin… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2020-01 Publication Date: Thursday, January 9, 2020 During the last years of his life, the mathematician Karl Menger worked on a biography of his father, the economist and founder of the Austrian School of Economics, Carl Menger. The… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-22 Publication Date: Monday, December 16, 2019 The International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISoM) is an annual conference, which was co-sponsored, during 15 years (1978-1993) by the French EHESS and the NBER. This article… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-21 Publication Date: Monday, November 18, 2019 Current literature on John Stuart Mill’s writings about Asia has mainly focused on his influence in India because of Mill’s 35-year career in the East India Company. Scholars in… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-20 Publication Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Paul Samuelson was attracted to the economic dynamics of South American countries because of the links between economic performance and political factors. He discussed the influence… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-19 Publication Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 This paper offers an analysis of the challenges the researchers associated with the Cowles Commission faced while establishing a mathematically and abstractly driven definition of "… read more about this publication »
Publication Number: 2019-18 Publication Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 The economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides a field well befitting to study the translation in the discipline of economics of “esoteric research”… read more about this publication »