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Who runs the AEA?
Hoover, Kevin D.; Svorenčík, Andrej - 2020 - Version, 27 November 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 2019. The analysis focuses on institutional affiliations by education and employment. The structure is strongly...
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The Weber-Wieser connection : early economic sociology as an interpretative skeleton key
Kolev, Stefan - 2017
recently. However, this literature as conducted by Weber scholars and by Austrian economists exhibits two major deficiencies …
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Emigration with a pulled handbrake : Friedrich A. Lutz's internal Methodenstreit
Grudev, Lachezar - 2021
My paper reconstructs the path of German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901−1975) to American economics. The correspondence with his former teacherWalter Eucken, the founder of the Freiburg School, constitutes a crucial and yet unexplored source for the paper. Through Lutz's case, I demonstrate...
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How economists ignored the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918-20
Boianovsky, Mauro; Erreygers, Guido - 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 academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features …, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the reasons for that, by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists …
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"Writing history as a way of life" : the life and work of Margaret Garritsen de Vries
Laskaridis, Christina - 2022
The name of Margaret Garritsen de Vries may not be the first that pops into people’s mind when thinking about the International Monetary Fund. It is through her work, as long-standing official Fund Historian, that those interested in the Fund history will travel through. An operational...
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Women and economics : new historical perspectives
Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo; Forget, Evelyn L.; … - 2022
mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists …
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A student's plea to professor North : an episode in academic politics and interdisciplinarity in the Reagan years
Almeida, Rafael Galvão de - 2021
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Paul Samuelson's historiography : more wag than whig
Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2015
In this review essay of Medema's and Waterman's collection of some of Samuelson's writings in the history of economics, the author argues that Samuelson's claim to have written "Whig History" is spurious. Moreover the author argues that Samuelson's own writings on modern economics are , whether...
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Observing shocks
Duarte, Pedro Garcia; Hoover, Kevin D. - 2011
economics and in nearly half in macroeconomics. Surprisingly, its rise as an essential element in the vocabulary of economists …
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First principles, fallibilism, and economics
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017 - Revised, 1 January 2017
' and recent neoclassical economists' economics as the optimal use of scare resources. Commitment to first principles risks …
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