@undercoverhist.bsky.social
Historian of applied economics
(macro, public, urban, ag, env, design, tractability, computational econ & more)
CNRS & CREST, Ecole Polytechnique
(macro, public, urban, ag, env, design, tractability, computational econ & more)
CNRS & CREST, Ecole Polytechnique
On my mind this (busy) week
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 PM
On my mind this (busy) week
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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
January 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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
[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?
Thanks
Thanks
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?
Thanks
Thanks
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Beyond Promotion - What Happens When the Race Is Over [I can't agree more, seen on LinkedIn via @undercoverhist.bsky.social 🙏🏼]
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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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January 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...
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As I learned about the passing of Roger Guesnerie this morning, I came across a reference written by Leonid Hurwicz in support of Guesnerie's application for a position of Directeur d'étude at the EHESS in 1978. K Arrow also wrote in support. Guesnerie was elected to a position the following year
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
As I learned about the passing of Roger Guesnerie this morning, I came across a reference written by Leonid Hurwicz in support of Guesnerie's application for a position of Directeur d'étude at the EHESS in 1978. K Arrow also wrote in support. Guesnerie was elected to a position the following year
Historians colleagues who (still) have essay-writing based courses, who supervise master and PhD students, how do you discuss the use of generative AI for research and writing with them (sources, do/don't, etc)?
Thanks!
Thanks!
January 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Historians colleagues who (still) have essay-writing based courses, who supervise master and PhD students, how do you discuss the use of generative AI for research and writing with them (sources, do/don't, etc)?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80).
🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026
Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026
Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...
www.centre-cired.fr
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80).
🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026
Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026
Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...
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[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers.
One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!
One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers.
One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!
One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!
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The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
Front Page | Center for the History of Political Economy
hope.econ.duke.edu
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:
hope.econ.duke.edu
Come join us!
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➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.
15-3 | 2025 Accounting for Quality in Economics
journals.openedition.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.
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2 Œconomia issues for the price of 1!
Œconomia 15(2) & 15(3) are now online:
➡️ 15(2) — Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
Edited by A. Chirat, N. Colin-Jaeger, C. Orozco Espinel, and C. Hédoin
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...
Œconomia 15(2) & 15(3) are now online:
➡️ 15(2) — Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
Edited by A. Chirat, N. Colin-Jaeger, C. Orozco Espinel, and C. Hédoin
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...
15-2 | 2025 Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
journals.openedition.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
2 Œconomia issues for the price of 1!
Œconomia 15(2) & 15(3) are now online:
➡️ 15(2) — Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
Edited by A. Chirat, N. Colin-Jaeger, C. Orozco Espinel, and C. Hédoin
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...
Œconomia 15(2) & 15(3) are now online:
➡️ 15(2) — Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
Edited by A. Chirat, N. Colin-Jaeger, C. Orozco Espinel, and C. Hédoin
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...
If you think you're alone in experiencing a brain-eating December, I just took a train the wrong way, then another one to return to initial station
I realized it was actually the right way, only had I forgotten the name of the next station
The next train has just been canceled
You're welcome
I realized it was actually the right way, only had I forgotten the name of the next station
The next train has just been canceled
You're welcome
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If you think you're alone in experiencing a brain-eating December, I just took a train the wrong way, then another one to return to initial station
I realized it was actually the right way, only had I forgotten the name of the next station
The next train has just been canceled
You're welcome
I realized it was actually the right way, only had I forgotten the name of the next station
The next train has just been canceled
You're welcome
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This is something utterly remarkable.
First, I very much enjoyed Steven's intro -- I wish every scholar could deserve -- and receive! -- such a thoughtful eulogy. The fact that he is seen as an inspiration for younger scholars makes me proud of the discipline of economics.
First, I very much enjoyed Steven's intro -- I wish every scholar could deserve -- and receive! -- such a thoughtful eulogy. The fact that he is seen as an inspiration for younger scholars makes me proud of the discipline of economics.
Honored to introduce Samuel Bowles Public Lecture The Origin and Future of Inequality, part of 3 days organized by
@ucstonecenter.bsky.social.
Sam has been an inspiration, both intellectually and morally to me, as well as to so many in the profession.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-9...
@ucstonecenter.bsky.social.
Sam has been an inspiration, both intellectually and morally to me, as well as to so many in the profession.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-9...
UChicago Stone Center | The Origin and Future of Economic Inequality by Samuel Bowles
YouTube video by Harris Public Policy
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is something utterly remarkable.
First, I very much enjoyed Steven's intro -- I wish every scholar could deserve -- and receive! -- such a thoughtful eulogy. The fact that he is seen as an inspiration for younger scholars makes me proud of the discipline of economics.
First, I very much enjoyed Steven's intro -- I wish every scholar could deserve -- and receive! -- such a thoughtful eulogy. The fact that he is seen as an inspiration for younger scholars makes me proud of the discipline of economics.
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📣 New call for paper in OEconomia: "History of Climate Economics", edited by Christophe Cassen, @beatricecointe.bsky.social and Antoine Missemer.
Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
journals.openedition.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📣 New call for paper in OEconomia: "History of Climate Economics", edited by Christophe Cassen, @beatricecointe.bsky.social and Antoine Missemer.
Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Aurélien Saïdi, @cescoeco.bsky.social & I have a new JEDC paper on Michel Juillard's contribution to macro, aka his role as architect & curator of open-source Dynare software—used worldwide to estimate and simulate DSGE models
It's important for 2 reasons:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It's important for 2 reasons:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Aurélien Saïdi, @cescoeco.bsky.social & I have a new JEDC paper on Michel Juillard's contribution to macro, aka his role as architect & curator of open-source Dynare software—used worldwide to estimate and simulate DSGE models
It's important for 2 reasons:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It's important for 2 reasons:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Muriel Dal-Pont évoque l'évolution de l'expertise économique en France dans Entendez-vous l'éco.
Muriel Dal-Pont évoque l'évolution de l'expertise économique en France dans Entendez-vous l'éco.
Commissariat au Plan, INSEE : après les guerres, de nouveaux lieux pour produire le savoir économique
x
www.radiofrance.fr
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Muriel Dal-Pont évoque l'évolution de l'expertise économique en France dans Entendez-vous l'éco.
Muriel Dal-Pont évoque l'évolution de l'expertise économique en France dans Entendez-vous l'éco.
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The book is a intellectual history of global development through the biographies and ideas of six South Asian economists, all members of the Cambridge Apostles secret society at a point 2/
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The book is a intellectual history of global development through the biographies and ideas of six South Asian economists, all members of the Cambridge Apostles secret society at a point 2/
#EEAfiles
1990: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough
"EEA as fewer members than the national economic association of Sweden, with a population of 8 millions"
1990: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough
"EEA as fewer members than the national economic association of Sweden, with a population of 8 millions"
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#EEAfiles
1990: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough
"EEA as fewer members than the national economic association of Sweden, with a population of 8 millions"
1990: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough
"EEA as fewer members than the national economic association of Sweden, with a population of 8 millions"
#EEAfiles
"the average level of econs is very low. This requires a certain elitism if we want the standard to be higher than, for example, that of the Association of French-Language Economists"
Jan Waelbroeck dunking on the French (in Flemish) and suggesting that EEA members should be co-opted
"the average level of econs is very low. This requires a certain elitism if we want the standard to be higher than, for example, that of the Association of French-Language Economists"
Jan Waelbroeck dunking on the French (in Flemish) and suggesting that EEA members should be co-opted
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
#EEAfiles
"the average level of econs is very low. This requires a certain elitism if we want the standard to be higher than, for example, that of the Association of French-Language Economists"
Jan Waelbroeck dunking on the French (in Flemish) and suggesting that EEA members should be co-opted
"the average level of econs is very low. This requires a certain elitism if we want the standard to be higher than, for example, that of the Association of French-Language Economists"
Jan Waelbroeck dunking on the French (in Flemish) and suggesting that EEA members should be co-opted
#EEAfiles
Documenting the birth of the European Economic Association from Leuven archives with @cescoeco.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com
It's 1984 and several economists, many of them working at the CORE, Louvain, find that "a number of economic problems which are specifically European...
Documenting the birth of the European Economic Association from Leuven archives with @cescoeco.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com
It's 1984 and several economists, many of them working at the CORE, Louvain, find that "a number of economic problems which are specifically European...
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#EEAfiles
Documenting the birth of the European Economic Association from Leuven archives with @cescoeco.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com
It's 1984 and several economists, many of them working at the CORE, Louvain, find that "a number of economic problems which are specifically European...
Documenting the birth of the European Economic Association from Leuven archives with @cescoeco.bsky.social and @aurelien-goutsmedt.com
It's 1984 and several economists, many of them working at the CORE, Louvain, find that "a number of economic problems which are specifically European...
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1/ I recently wrote a review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Arnaud Orain’s Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude. The book has stirred major debate in France. It’s rare (and great) to see a historian of economic thought in the spotlight.
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
1/ I recently wrote a review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Arnaud Orain’s Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude. The book has stirred major debate in France. It’s rare (and great) to see a historian of economic thought in the spotlight.
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The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Stone Centre Inequality Dialogue recap & full replay are now live. Huge thanks to @brankomilan.bsky.social, @laywilliams.bsky.social, @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @undercoverhist.bsky.social & @annastansbury.bsky.social for your contributions & to all who joined us. Recap: bit.ly/Dialogue-recap
Just a reminder that the deadline for job applications at @crestumr.bsky.social is this Sunday, the 16th midnight
If you need a committee member email address to send job market signals in the coming weeks, you're welcome to use mine
If you need a committee member email address to send job market signals in the coming weeks, you're welcome to use mine
🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨
We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Please circulate! #econsky
We have 3 positions:
1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE
1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom)
1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique)
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Please circulate! #econsky
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Just a reminder that the deadline for job applications at @crestumr.bsky.social is this Sunday, the 16th midnight
If you need a committee member email address to send job market signals in the coming weeks, you're welcome to use mine
If you need a committee member email address to send job market signals in the coming weeks, you're welcome to use mine