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Milton Friedman's empirical approach to economics : searching for scientific authority while shaping the University of Chicago economics department
Espinel, Camila Orozco - In: Journal of the history of economic thought 44 (2022) 4, pp. 600-621
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013539422
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A history of the institutionalization of feminist economics through its tensions and founders
Espinel, Camila Orozco; Gómez Betancourt, Rebeca - In: New historical perspectives on women and economics, (pp. 159-192). 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290563
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Setting up a long-term research project for economics at the Cowles Commission : the definition of theory as a mathematically and abstractly driven form of knowledge
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 2019 - Draft
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 "theory" for Economics. My objective is twofold. First, I explain the specific responses, in other words the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112917
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Scientific knowledge as technical knowledge: MIT's economics department and the translation of fundamental research into applications
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 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" into "tools". Certainty, MIT was not the only bridge in economics connecting the academic and the practical arenas....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112908
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Setting up a long-term research project for economics at the Cowles Commission: The definition of theory as a mathematically and abstractly driven form of knowledge
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 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 "theory" for Economics. My objective is twofold. First, I explain the specific responses, in other words the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112909
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How mathematical economics became (simply) economics: The mathematical training of economists during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in the United States
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 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 focusing on the communication challenges between these two groups during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a watershed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322413
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How Mathematical Economics Became (Simply) Economics : The Mathematical Training of Economists during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in the United States
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 2021
Before the use of mathematics in economics was generalized, mathematical and nonmathematically trained economist lived together. This paper studies this period of cohabitation. By focusing on the communication challenges between these two groups during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a watershed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213712
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Scientific knowledge as technical knowledge : MIT's economics department and the translation of fundamental research into applications
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 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" into "tools". Certainty, MIT was not the only bridge in economics connecting the academic and the practical arenas....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112916
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How mathematical economics became (simply) economics : the mathematical training of economists during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in the United States
Orozco Espinel, Camila - 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 focusing on the communication challenges between these two groups during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, a watershed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318587
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The invisible ones : women at CEPAL (1948-2017)
Gómez Betancourt, Rebeca; Orozco Espinel, Camila - In: The Routledge handbook of the history of women's …, (pp. 407-427). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976332