Article: The Trust Game: A historical and methodological analysis at the frontier of experimental and behavioral economics, by Nicolas Camilotto doi.org/10.1080/0967...
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Historian of applied economics (macro, public, urban, ag, env, design, tractability, computational econ & more) CNRS & CREST, Ecole Polytechnique
HELP NEEDED: I got 2 interesting student criticisms on my Master/PhD class on the history of applied economics, and I'm looking for suggestions to deal with them First one I get from time to time: chaotic slides. I plead guilty, I just don't know how to improve them, I don't have a visual mind
1h15, on revise le bac français, on corrige des copies et on prépare les jurys de demain à la frontale, parce qu'il fait 32 dedans et seulement 29,5 dehors -et c'est déjà un luxe d'avoir un dehors et une temperature sous les 30°.
"S’adapter, par avance, à une réalité simplement prévue et analysée par les seules forces de l’esprit, c’est là probablement, pour la plupart des hommes, un exercice mental singulièrement plus difficile que de modeler leur action, au fur et à mesure, sur des faits directement observés"
"Late bloomers tend to have a high tolerance for ambiguity, and can bring multiple ways of thinking to bear on a single complex problem. They also have a high tolerance for inefficiency. They walk through life like a curious person browsing through a bookstore." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
You Might Be a Late Bloomer
The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age
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Earlier this year, I took part in a workshop on methods and approaches in the history of economic thought (HET). Drawing on my habilitation work, I wrote this article. It makes the case for a social history of economic thought. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UBG9X...
What made "European" economic research unique between the 1980s & 2010s? Some initial results based on topic-modeling: ▶️ Labor markets (wages, unemployment) & experimental econ dominated among Europe-affiliated authors ▶️ European journals (EER, JEEA) leaned into international economics #rstats
Alain trannoy masterfully kicking off an interfield and interdisciplinary workshop at Lyon 3 on expertise in economics with these words "There are 3 sure things in life: death, global warming and taxation"
I’m happy to share that today I was awarded the 2026 Craufurd Goodwin Best Article on the History of Economics for my paper on Warren Nutter’s Soviet economy esearch at the CIA. It’s one of my favorite papers and it’s a nice one to have won because it exemplifies how I approach history of economics.
En quasi direct de la dernière session de #eshethes2026 : Louise Villeneuve, postdoc au @cired.bsky.social, reçoit le Gilles Dostaler Award pour un article qu’elle a consacré à J. S. Mill et l’art de la consommation 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
John Stuart Mill and the art of consumption
This article investigates the exclusion of “consumption” from John Stuart Mill’s definition of political economy (1836). Unlike production and distribution, consumption is not an economic activity ...
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1. Today at #eshethes2026, G. Serra convened a panel on the histories of African economic thought and gave a fascinating presentation about an upcoming online database of African academic journals that will open research perspectives for all scholars interested in decolonising economic knowledge.
I really like the detail of this press cutting *Robots works problem never before solved* … and then it’s a picture of a woman doing the work 🤡 #AI #hiddenlabour
1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:
Next week, a sizable fraction of all historians of economics worldwide will convene in Nice for a one-of-a-kind event: for the first time, the European and American associations for the history of econ are organizing a joint conference @shoet.bsky.social www.eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...
Next Tuesday marks the beginning of the first joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society, held at Université Côte d’Azur.
J'ai réalisé pour @franceculture.fr un podcast sur l'histoire des méthodes que les économistes ont développé pour donner une valeur, ou un prix, aux "choses de la vie" depuis 100 ans La série de 10 (courts) épisodes est ici: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
La valeur des choses de la vie : un podcast à écouter en ligne
Comment les économistes fixent-ils la valeur des choses, matérielles ou immatérielles, qui composent notre quotidien ? L’historienne de l’économie Béatrice Cherrier nous éclaire sur les débats qui ont...
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Félicitations à Antoine MISSEMER, qui a reçu la médaille de bronze du CNRS 2026 pour la section 40, sciences économiques et de gestion www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...
Recently published in @jcultecon.bsky.social: @vkluzik.bsky.social on the genealogy of the concept of "carrying capacity" and how it was seized and shaped by both ecologists and economists. Must read for anyone interested in the links between population and the environment. doi.org/10.1080/1753...
Une introduction à la Théorie générale (A la marge) blogs.alternatives-economiques.fr/anota/2026/0...
I have question from a colleague about the history of the concept of human capital. Any advice? Literature recommendations? @shoet.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @cleocz.bsky.social @vhalsmayer.bsky.social
Starting to notice a pattern that a lot of the tasks that are deemed “ok to use AI for” is invisible labour that used to be delegated to women and (hence? because?) considered of low intellectual added-value:
Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci
"Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?"
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Anna Alexandrova@annaalexandrova.bsky.social · last yr.The third article in the special issue Are Social Sciences Special? which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I co-edit is by @federicobrandmayr.bsky.social. It presents results of a large survey of British academics on how they see their own disciplinary identity wrt social sciences #philsci #sts #histsci
[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered? Thanks
Beyond Promotion - What Happens When the Race Is Over [I can't agree more, seen on LinkedIn via @undercoverhist.bsky.social 🙏🏼] www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...
Beyond Promotion - What Happens When the Race Is Over
A meditation on the peculiar invisibility of those who've stopped climbing There comes a point in an academic career when the ladders disappear. Not because they were never there, they were, propped a...
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