Dec 14, 2021
Jenn, Çınla, and Scott discuss a number of recent additions to the literature in history of economic thought and methodology.
If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls):
Searching for a Tide Table for Business: Interwar Conceptions of Statistical Inference in Business Forecasting
Laetitia Lenel
History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174
Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and policy change: An exploration of impact, location, and temporality of policy advice
Ishani Mukherjee and Sarah Geist
Administration and Society, 52(10), 1538-1561
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095399720918315
Knowledge, behaviour, and policy: questioning the epistemic presuppositions of applying behavioural science in public policymaking
Magdalena Małecka
Synthese, Volume 199, 5311–5338
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03026-6
Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org