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Alexandre Truc
@alxndrtrc.bsky.social
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Researcher at GREDEG, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS.
Behavioral Economics, Scientometrics, History of Economics, Applied Epistemo and Interdisciplinarity
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economicthought.bsky.social
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
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October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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cherfeld.bsky.social
🔥 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...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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ivanboldyrev.bsky.social
#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...
arxiv.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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nbrisset.bsky.social
"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"
quentindeforge.bsky.social Quentin Deforge @quentindeforge.bsky.social · Feb 12
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)
February 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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aurelien-goutsmedt.com
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
Figure about the evolution of the topic about "économie", "développement", "évolution" and "théorie", which increases a lot in the 1970s and 1980s
January 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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economicthought.bsky.social
Article: The Rise of the Conjuncturists: Building Economic Expertise on the Fall of the Popular Front, by Nicolas Brisset & Raphaël Fèvre
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January 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
alxndrtrc.bsky.social
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:
January 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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economicthought.bsky.social
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

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January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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aurelien-goutsmedt.com
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
We are pleased to announce the release of the French PhD Thesis Database in Economics! This database offers extensive information on the majority of doctoral theses defended in France in the field of economics since 1900. The database is available in .csv format and can be downloaded from its Zenodo Repository. Comprehensive documentation can be accessed here. The French database is implemented as a relational database, integrating multiple interconnected data frames.
January 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM