@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
#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"
1995: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough
"I thought we would reach a membership of 2000 [but] the membership has been more or less stable around 1700...by the year 2000, we should be 5000!" (Louis Phlips)
"I thought we would reach a membership of 2000 [but] the membership has been more or less stable around 1700...by the year 2000, we should be 5000!" (Louis Phlips)
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
1995: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough
"I thought we would reach a membership of 2000 [but] the membership has been more or less stable around 1700...by the year 2000, we should be 5000!" (Louis Phlips)
"I thought we would reach a membership of 2000 [but] the membership has been more or less stable around 1700...by the year 2000, we should be 5000!" (Louis Phlips)
#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
There was also the question of those common European topics, to assemble session for the inaugural 1986 meeting, in Vienna: migration, unemployment, competition, trade, stagflation, socialist economies?
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There was also the question of those common European topics, to assemble session for the inaugural 1986 meeting, in Vienna: migration, unemployment, competition, trade, stagflation, socialist economies?
...this state of affairs requires the development of an appropriate and original approach...the methodology used by European economists has become much more unified...research topics have become closer..."
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
...this state of affairs requires the development of an appropriate and original approach...the methodology used by European economists has become much more unified...research topics have become closer..."
#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...
Tonight, we're discussing inequality in the history of economic and political thought at 6PM CET online in a ULC Stone Centre Webinar
Discussion is centered on recent books by Branko Milanović and David Lay Williams
Register here : ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Discussion is centered on recent books by Branko Milanović and David Lay Williams
Register here : ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Tonight, we're discussing inequality in the history of economic and political thought at 6PM CET online in a ULC Stone Centre Webinar
Discussion is centered on recent books by Branko Milanović and David Lay Williams
Register here : ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Discussion is centered on recent books by Branko Milanović and David Lay Williams
Register here : ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Dozens of new ocean methane seeps have recently been discovered. This is not factored in current climate scenarios
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Dozens of new ocean methane seeps have recently been discovered. This is not factored in current climate scenarios
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 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
October 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🚨 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
What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy
beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...
On y aborde les questions suivantes:
un prix pour des méthodes? pour des conclusions sur les sources de la croissance? Pour des recommendations de politiques économique?
D'où vient ce prix qui n'est pas tout à fait un Nobel, à quoi sert-il dans le monde universitaire et la société?
un prix pour des méthodes? pour des conclusions sur les sources de la croissance? Pour des recommendations de politiques économique?
D'où vient ce prix qui n'est pas tout à fait un Nobel, à quoi sert-il dans le monde universitaire et la société?
October 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
On y aborde les questions suivantes:
un prix pour des méthodes? pour des conclusions sur les sources de la croissance? Pour des recommendations de politiques économique?
D'où vient ce prix qui n'est pas tout à fait un Nobel, à quoi sert-il dans le monde universitaire et la société?
un prix pour des méthodes? pour des conclusions sur les sources de la croissance? Pour des recommendations de politiques économique?
D'où vient ce prix qui n'est pas tout à fait un Nobel, à quoi sert-il dans le monde universitaire et la société?
1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me
Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:
Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me
Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:
Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:
[ADVICE NEEDED] For recruitment committee members around #econsky ?
EEA JOE guidelines for 2025 online interviews point to dates just before Christmas break (15-18 dec), leaving little time for committees, and especially candidates and admins to prepare for fly-outs.
How do you cope with this?
EEA JOE guidelines for 2025 online interviews point to dates just before Christmas break (15-18 dec), leaving little time for committees, and especially candidates and admins to prepare for fly-outs.
How do you cope with this?
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
[ADVICE NEEDED] For recruitment committee members around #econsky ?
EEA JOE guidelines for 2025 online interviews point to dates just before Christmas break (15-18 dec), leaving little time for committees, and especially candidates and admins to prepare for fly-outs.
How do you cope with this?
EEA JOE guidelines for 2025 online interviews point to dates just before Christmas break (15-18 dec), leaving little time for committees, and especially candidates and admins to prepare for fly-outs.
How do you cope with this?
"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982)
Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982)
Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Beth Berman's interview should be read alongside the historical work by Antoinette Baujard on how economists have mostly endorsed, sometimes resisted, utilitarianism, welfarism and consequentialism as a basis for decision making
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...
October 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Beth Berman's interview should be read alongside the historical work by Antoinette Baujard on how economists have mostly endorsed, sometimes resisted, utilitarianism, welfarism and consequentialism as a basis for decision making
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...
3/3 I also greatly benefited from his article on the early history of the NBER in the 1920s (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...)
Que la terre lui soit légère
Que la terre lui soit légère
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
3/3 I also greatly benefited from his article on the early history of the NBER in the 1920s (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...)
Que la terre lui soit légère
Que la terre lui soit légère
2/3 His article with Mary Morgan tracing the transformation of economics from "interwar pluralism" to postwar "neoclassicism" (www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary... [open access]) has been pivotal to my doctoral work.
October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2/3 His article with Mary Morgan tracing the transformation of economics from "interwar pluralism" to postwar "neoclassicism" (www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary... [open access]) has been pivotal to my doctoral work.
1/n Last week, the History of Economics community received the sad news that Malcom Rutherford has passed (see Margaret Schabas's announcement below)
A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work
A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work
October 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
1/n Last week, the History of Economics community received the sad news that Malcom Rutherford has passed (see Margaret Schabas's announcement below)
A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work
A specialist of the history of institutionalism and the interwar period at large, every historian has been influence to some degree by his work
How your email finds me
See you in a week
See you in a week
September 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
How your email finds me
See you in a week
See you in a week
"your papers are due for submission in 5 weeks"
September 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"your papers are due for submission in 5 weeks"
4/n As late as 1980, he wrote to Coase: "“I have always regarded Arrow as the man who usurped my rights, like a Jimmy Hoffa or a Hitler, and who did it so gratuitously." That's how brutal credit fights in science can turn.
September 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
4/n As late as 1980, he wrote to Coase: "“I have always regarded Arrow as the man who usurped my rights, like a Jimmy Hoffa or a Hitler, and who did it so gratuitously." That's how brutal credit fights in science can turn.
3/n...then Black being later asked to revise his next submission to take into account Arrow's 1951 monograph "Social Choice and Individual Values"
She explains how this restrained Black's intellectual path and (initially) his legacy, make his criticisms to Arrow's impossibility theorem less visible
She explains how this restrained Black's intellectual path and (initially) his legacy, make his criticisms to Arrow's impossibility theorem less visible
September 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
3/n...then Black being later asked to revise his next submission to take into account Arrow's 1951 monograph "Social Choice and Individual Values"
She explains how this restrained Black's intellectual path and (initially) his legacy, make his criticisms to Arrow's impossibility theorem less visible
She explains how this restrained Black's intellectual path and (initially) his legacy, make his criticisms to Arrow's impossibility theorem less visible
2/n (median voter theorem shows that if voters' preferences are single-peaked, then cyclical majorities can be avoided and some voting methods lead to the election of candidate preferred by the median voter)
She covers grad student Arrow working on voting cycles & stumbling on Black's JPE paper...
She covers grad student Arrow working on voting cycles & stumbling on Black's JPE paper...
September 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
2/n (median voter theorem shows that if voters' preferences are single-peaked, then cyclical majorities can be avoided and some voting methods lead to the election of candidate preferred by the median voter)
She covers grad student Arrow working on voting cycles & stumbling on Black's JPE paper...
She covers grad student Arrow working on voting cycles & stumbling on Black's JPE paper...