MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project
@modeltransfer.bsky.social
Our team (Catherine Herfeld, Edoardo Peruzzi, Bele Wollesen, Murat Bakeev, Oliver Budras) studies model transfer in science (especially economics) at @iphilluh.bsky.social. ERC Starting Grant project (2023 – 2029) @erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
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Welcome to the Bluesky account of the ERC-funded project “MODEL TRANSFER and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics.” The project, led by Catherine Herfeld, is hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover.
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
Our webpage:
model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/
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1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models
In this critique and exploration of Dan Hausman’s 2023 edition of The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics, I focus on his view of economic models as predicate models and his commitment to equ...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
1/2 Team member Nadia Ruiz's paper has just been published: "Dan Hausman on Macroeconomic Models." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
Ruiz critiques Dan Hausman’s 2023 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics by examining his view of economic models as predicate models ...
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Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
Working on #TrustInScience #AcademicFreedom #ValuesInScience #Expertise #IntegrativeResearch #ScienceForPolicy or related topics?
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
👉 Apply until Nov. 30 for the Early-Career Workshop on #Wissenschaftsreflexion taking place June 2026. Travel costs and accomodation can be covered. Spread the word :)
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Join us for the Inaugural Conference of the new Forum #Wissenschaftsreflexion in June 2026! Early-Career Researchers can still apply for a dedicated workshop that covers travel & accomodation costs. #PhilSci #PhilSky #HPS #STS #SocSky @mapsproject.bsky.social @modeltransfer.bsky.social
🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team!
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team!
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇
We’re proud of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi, who presented “Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory” last Friday at the HOPE Workshop at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University!
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We’re proud of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi, who presented “Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory” last Friday at the HOPE Workshop at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University!
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
@hopecenter.bsky.social
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG
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Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
![November 14, 2025
• [15:30-17:00 CET || 08:30-10:00 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Towards a methodologist integration of history and philosophy of science. Marriage counseling from a pragmatist perspective."
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen (University of Oulu)
• [17:00-17:50 CET || 10:00-10:50 MX] "Counterfactual Sufficiency in Historical Explanation: Old and New History in 1948"
Zainab Sabra (American University of Beirut)
• |17:50-18:00 CET I| 10:50-11:00 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:00-18:50 CETI 11:00-11:50 MX] "Historical Macro-Units as a Form of Conceptual Engineering" Bobby Vos (University of Cambridge)
• [18:50-19:40 CET // 11:50 - 12:40 MX] "Early Modern Feminist Approaches to Misogynistic Bias in the Historical Archive"
Natalia Zorrilla (McGill University)
• [19:40 -19:50CET || 12:40-12:50 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [19:50-20:40 CET// 12:50-13:40 MX] "Idealising the history of science for philosophical purposes" Dubian Cañas.
• |20:40-21:30 CET// 13:40-14:30
MX] "Why some inaccurate case studies work?
Reflections on the epistemic value of philosophically biased historical reconstructions"
María del Rosario Martínez-Ordaz](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreif7tjcqxyhw6ivn6cvhv7vysub34sgjn2irva263g2z6wtmhgpsbe@jpeg)
![November 13, 2025
• [16:00-17:30 CET I| 09:00-10:30 MX] Keynote
Talk: "Newton's Metaphysics in Practice" Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter, England)
• 17:30-18:20 CET I| 10:30-11:20 MX| "Reconstructing Trust: Social-Historical Trajectories of the Physician-Patient Relationship in Post-Unification Italy" Anna Gadignani (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy)
• [18:20-18:30 CET I| 11:20-11:30 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [18:30-19:20 CETI 11:30-12:20 MX] "Aristotle and Proclus on Mathematics as an Axiomatic Science: A Data-Driven Comparison"
Maria Chiara Parisi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
• 19:20-20:10 CET // 12:20 - 13:10 MX] "A reply to incommensurability: from historiography to philosophy of logic"
Evelyn Erickson (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
• [20:10 -20:20CET || 13:10-13:20 MX] MINI-BREAK
• [20:20-21:10 CET// 13:20-14:10 MX] "A Meta-Narrativist Approach to the Reconstruction of Internal History: The Autonomy-Continuity Problem" Andrés Vázquez-Quijano (UNAM)
• [21:10-22:00 CET// 14:10-15:00 MX] "Problems in the historical study of the intellectual and spiritual contributions of women in classical Islam from a gender perspective"
Tzitzi Janik Rojas Torres (UNAM)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7bwjxnqslemro4mrguw5vfv/bafkreibbyykhaegpswhv3pjthrdrrivitxwqrnidv4ofitkoi43qyhey5m@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Online workshop: Methodologies for use of History in Philosophy, hosted by Instituto de Investigatciones Filosoficas–UNAM, organised by María Martínez-Ordaz @mmartinezordaz.bsky.social & Teresa Rodriguez. Registration free. Complete form to receive zoom link forms.gle/qJRncUDEc254...
#HPS #Philsky
#HPS #Philsky
Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines."
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines."
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html
Really interesting discussion of Mauricio Suárez’s Inference and Representation, touching on fundamental questions about integrating history and philosophy of science and how the normative connects with the descriptive.
The below link should work, but let me know if you can't get access and I'll DM you the author's copy!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hearty thanks to Oscar Westerblad @oscarw.bsky.social, Chiara Ambrosio and Alexander Bird for their wonderful commentaries!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hearty thanks to Oscar Westerblad @oscarw.bsky.social, Chiara Ambrosio and Alexander Bird for their wonderful commentaries!
Inference and Representation by Mauricio Suárez: Reply by the Author.
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Really interesting discussion of Mauricio Suárez’s Inference and Representation, touching on fundamental questions about integrating history and philosophy of science and how the normative connects with the descriptive.
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Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) invites submissions for its next annual meeting, to be held in Halifax June 4-6, 2026. Submission Deadline: Saturday January 10, 2026 #HPS
cshps.ca
cshps.ca
Home - CSHPS/SCHPS
Announcing the 9th Notes and Records Essay Award
cshps.ca
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
A great initiative from Œconomia: a permanent call for papers focusing on datasets and quantitative methods relevant to the history and philosophy of economics. This directly addresses some of the challenges we discussed at our recent online workshop on computational methods in hist & phil of econ.
CfP: for a special issue on Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Methodology of Economics
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A great initiative from Œconomia: a permanent call for papers focusing on datasets and quantitative methods relevant to the history and philosophy of economics. This directly addresses some of the challenges we discussed at our recent online workshop on computational methods in hist & phil of econ.
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Call for Applications – Young Scholars Program
Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG, Nice, France
26-29 May 2026
Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG, Nice, France
26-29 May 2026
29th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
www.eshet-conference.net
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Call for Applications – Young Scholars Program
Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG, Nice, France
26-29 May 2026
Joint Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
Université Côte d’Azur, GREDEG, Nice, France
26-29 May 2026
Photo highlights from yesterday’s talk by Edoardo Peruzzi in Pittsburgh (credit: @center4philsci.bsky.social)!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci
Watch the recording on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci
Watch the recording on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Photo highlights from yesterday’s talk by Edoardo Peruzzi in Pittsburgh (credit: @center4philsci.bsky.social)!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci
Watch the recording on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci
Watch the recording on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...
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Happening Today at Noon!
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Edoardo Peruzzi!
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More info at https://ow.ly/g9Ir50XhWm3
Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/9Ibw50XhWm1
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Edoardo Peruzzi!
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More info at https://ow.ly/g9Ir50XhWm3
Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/9Ibw50XhWm1
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Happening Today at Noon!
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Edoardo Peruzzi!
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More info at https://ow.ly/g9Ir50XhWm3
Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/9Ibw50XhWm1
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
Join us at 12 PM EDT in CL-1117 for a Lunch Time Talk with Edoardo Peruzzi!
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More info at https://ow.ly/g9Ir50XhWm3
Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/9Ibw50XhWm1
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
Don’t miss our Lunch Time Talk with Edoardo Peruzzi!
📅 Tomorrow, October 28th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More about the talk on our website.
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/ZQZi50XhWkW
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
📅 Tomorrow, October 28th
⏰ 12pm EDT
📍 CL-1117
Title: "Model Transfer Through Formal Template Accumulation"
More about the talk on our website.
Can't make the talk? Join on Zoom: https://ow.ly/ZQZi50XhWkW
See you there!
#LTT #CenterPhilSci
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Listen to our team member’s talk at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh!
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
#FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer
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Last Call!
Accepting abstract submissions for our Spring conference "To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model."
Deadline: November 1st at midnight
More information including abstract submission guidelines available at https://ow.ly/f4u050XfFRG
Accepting abstract submissions for our Spring conference "To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model."
Deadline: November 1st at midnight
More information including abstract submission guidelines available at https://ow.ly/f4u050XfFRG
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Last Call!
Accepting abstract submissions for our Spring conference "To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model."
Deadline: November 1st at midnight
More information including abstract submission guidelines available at https://ow.ly/f4u050XfFRG
Accepting abstract submissions for our Spring conference "To Be or Not to Be Included in a Causal Model."
Deadline: November 1st at midnight
More information including abstract submission guidelines available at https://ow.ly/f4u050XfFRG
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The HISRECO conference was a blast! Some new exciting people, old friends, thoughtful conversations, and still another reason for me to be fascinated with this field
October 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The HISRECO conference was a blast! Some new exciting people, old friends, thoughtful conversations, and still another reason for me to be fascinated with this field
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Murat Bakeev (Hannover) starts off with the talk on the history of model transfer in Santa Fe economics program #hisreco2025
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Murat Bakeev (Hannover) starts off with the talk on the history of model transfer in Santa Fe economics program #hisreco2025
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🔥 Our team members Murat Bakeev and Edoardo Peruzzi are busy this month w presenting their ideas at HISRECO & Pittsburg's center for philosophy of science (links👇). Meanwhile, I am looking forward to my visit to the Uni Kansas for a talk at the Conference From Biology to Economics and Back Again!
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🔥 Our team members Murat Bakeev and Edoardo Peruzzi are busy this month w presenting their ideas at HISRECO & Pittsburg's center for philosophy of science (links👇). Meanwhile, I am looking forward to my visit to the Uni Kansas for a talk at the Conference From Biology to Economics and Back Again!
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Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 2-year PostDoc position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 03.11.2025.
Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby
#philsci #philsky
Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby
#philsci #philsky
October 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Apply to join a team of wonderful colleagues at Philosophy at TU Dresden. I am advertising a 2-year PostDoc position in philosophy of science/philosophy of physics as part of the DFG project 'Progress through Principles', deadline 03.11.2025.
Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby
#philsci #philsky
Details: tinyurl.com/493dffby
#philsci #philsky
This week, our team member Murat Bakeev is at the HISRECO conference in Nijmegen, presenting his historical research on the challenged transfer of early evolutionary algorithms to economics at the Santa Fe Institute.
hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...
#ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...
#ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
17th HISRECO Conference Program
Day 1 – Thursday, 23.10.2025 Ulbo de Sitter Room | 9:30 – 16:50 9:30–9:40 Opening remarks (HISRECO team) 9:40–10:30 Murat Bakeev (Leibniz University Hannover) How Artificially Intelligent Agents En…
hisreco.wordpress.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This week, our team member Murat Bakeev is at the HISRECO conference in Nijmegen, presenting his historical research on the challenged transfer of early evolutionary algorithms to economics at the Santa Fe Institute.
hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...
#ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
hisreco.wordpress.com/next-confere...
#ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
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#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs
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Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Francesco Nappo (Politecnico di Milano) studies #scientificmodelling and its role in #publicpolicy. He investigates the strengths and limits of economic models for #climatemitigation and approaches guiding rapid energy transitions: t1p.de/k3nt1 #PhilSci #Philsky
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Meet the #SOCRATESgroup fellows!👋 Francesco Nappo (Politecnico di Milano) studies #scientificmodelling and its role in #publicpolicy. He investigates the strengths and limits of economic models for #climatemitigation and approaches guiding rapid energy transitions: t1p.de/k3nt1 #PhilSci #Philsky
October 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social:
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
"Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution"
📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover
📅 April 9–10, 2026
Below you’ll find more information about the workshop and the CfP 👇
Our two-day online workshop has wrapped up. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to the lively discussions!
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Our two-day online workshop has wrapped up. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to the lively discussions!
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG
These discussions tackled some core challenges for those using computational methods in the history & philosophy of economics 👇
@erc.europa.eu #FrontierResearch #ERCStG