CfP: Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES) Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France / 26-29 May 2026 Submission deadline: 22 December 2025 listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A...

🔥 New paper w @alxndrtrc.bsky.social, F. Claveau & V. Larivière on Gender Homogeneity in Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, forthc in Journal of Economic Methodology. We find a larger gender imbalance in phil & methodology of econ than its parent disciplines econ & phil: osf.io/preprints/so...

#performativity comes to machine learning arxiv.org/abs/2405.19073

An engine not a camera: Measuring performative power of online search

The power of digital platforms is at the center of major ongoing policy and regulatory efforts. To advance existing debates, we designed and executed an experiment to measure the performative power of...

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"sachez que les archives qui ont permis l'écriture de cet article ne sont plus accessibles depuis la mise hors-ligne du site de USAID par Elon Musk. Ce sont 170,000 documents sur l'histoire de l'aide américaine depuis les années 40 qui risquent d'être perdues"

Quentin Deforge@quentindeforge.bsky.social · last yr.

Mon article sur le rôle de USAID dans le financement des sciences sociales / de la science politique, dans les années 60-70 est en ligne ! Vous trouverez quelques éléments généraux sur l'histoire de #USAID, qui fait l'objet de très peu de recherches. (1/4)

What are French economics PhD dissertations talking about since 1900? We publish a first small illustrative application of our French PhD database with @thomasdelcey.bsky.social using topic modelling: tdelcey.github.io/becoming_eco... #rstats #opendata #econsky #econFR

Article: The Rise of the Conjuncturists: Building Economic Expertise on the Fall of the Popular Front, by Nicolas Brisset & Raphaël Fèvre https://buff.ly/3PHvOJd

It was noted by Coelho et al. (2005) that economists are engaging in fewer controversies over time as measured by published replies and critical commentary. So when some economists criticized behavioral econ by arguing they “cast a dark shadow on the theory” we took a look at what was happening:

Forthcoming: No More than Exchanging Tools: Jacob Marschak and the Early Years of Cross-disciplinary Interactions between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950-1956, by Edoardo Peruzzi & Catherine Sophia Herfeld https://buff.ly/40H35ug

With @thomasdelcey.bsky.social we are thrilled to release the first version of the French economics PhD database 🎉 tdelcey.github.io/becoming_eco... Using Sudoc and theses.fr data, we have collected metadata on most PhD defended in France in economics since 1900! #rstats #opendata #EconSky