Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

"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

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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

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The department of Economic History at LSE is hiring! Assistant Prof. (all fields and period). Deadline for application 4 November 2025! @lseechist.bsky.social

For more info ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Article: Progressivism, socialism, and the role of the state, by Marianne Johnson
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Seeing like Chicago | Erwin Dekker | Substack Observations about Chicago economics, sociology, literature and more by Erwin Dekker. Click to read Seeing like Chicago, by Erwin Dekker, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.

I will be writing about my research on Chicago once a week at this new Substack: Seeing like Chicago

Do subscribe, for a weekly note!

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Content of the special section on Central Bank Scientization: Special section: Central bank scientization Redefining scientization: Central banks between science and politics Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi Not a steamroller, a 3D process: Scientization at the Bank of England Aurélien Goutsmedt, Francesco Sergi, François Claveau, Clément Fontan From technical to academic central banking: The scientization of the Banque de France Maxence Dutilleul Scientization of central bank governance: A global study of governors’ biographies, 2000–2020 Aykiz Dogan, Frédéric Lebaron Scientization: A self-critical afterthought Martin Marcussen

The special section on Central Bank Scientization in @finandsoc.bsky.social is now official out in Volume 11, Issue 2.

Read all the papers here ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Many thanks to @aminsamman.bsky.social and Nathan Coombs for their support in the editorial process.

Aurélien Goutsmedt, UC Louvain et ICHEC, BELGIQUE, éditeur en chef Maria Bach, Université de Lausanne, SUISSE Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, London School of Economics and Political Science, ROYAUME UNI Nathanael Colin-Jaeger, Université Catholique de Lille, FRANCE Tom Duterme, ICHEC Brussels Management, BELGIQUE David Gindis, University of Warwick, ROYAUME UNI Claire Silvant, Université Lumière Lyon 2, FRANCE Sarah Small, University of Utah, USA

A new academic year begins for Oeconomia (journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/) with a renewed team of editors for the book review section.

Welcome to the new editors - I look forward to working with them!

If you’d like to submit a book review or a proposal, feel free to contact me.

This paper shows that empirical economics research often lacks credibility because of low statistical power and publication bias. About 80% of reported effects are overstated, typically by a factor of two, and sometimes by four or more.

The cover of The Unnatural Trade by Brycchan Carey

A fascinating read. In "The Unnatural Trade" @brycchancarey.bsky.social shows how almost all early accounts of the slave trade - which British abolitionists later used as evidence - were written by naturalists.
And these same natural histories were then used to argue for the colonisation of Africa.

The Federal Reserve’s Neglected History of Racial segregation Recent events regarding Lisa Cook’s attempted firing by Donald Trump have convinced me to do a premium series on the history of racial segregation and the Federal Reserve. This is for a few reasons. F...

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: With the attempted firing of Lisa Cook by Donald Trump, the first Black woman appointed to the Federal Reserve Board, I think its important to examine the @federalreserve.gov's history of Racial Segregation. This is a long one

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The dataset of this survey (data anonymised) is open and available to anyone. Please use it! Federico and I conceived of it and carried it out in 2021 while at @crasshlive.bsky.social. Part of Expertise Under Pressure project. Many UK colleagues, namely 1188, completed it. Thank you! #openscience

Harvard departmental exam in economics, 1942

1/2 General essay questions:
1. Economic imperialism
2. The pre-requisites of lasting peace
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6. The relation of economics to sociology and political science
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20. Planned economies and human liberties

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To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Department of Economics of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Ghazala made important contributions in a large number of fields, spanning the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics. The award will promote work in those fields by young scholars. The first edition of this award will consist of a 5,000 euro prize for the best paper in this set of fields by junior researchers. The selection of the laureate will be carried out by a scientific committee composed of Pierre Cahuc, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo. Eligibility for the prize requires that all authors have obtained their PhD after 1 September 2018. Papers written jointly with more senior researchers will not be considered. The prize will be awarded at SciencesPo during the event organised in memory of Ghazala on 10 December 2025. One of the authors of the prize winning paper will present the work at this event. Applications must be submitted by 31 August 2025.

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August.
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Reposting our CfP for the “Power Couples” workshop - now with a new poster advertising the event kindly made for us by designer Marta Bartkowska!

International Scholarship at The University of Cambridge International postgraduate scholarships at the University of Cambridge

US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says Findings suggest since 2004 ONS failed to properly account for fact it received more data from larger employers The UK’s gender pay gap has been underestimated for more than 20 years, according to research that could raise fresh questions about the quality of data used to inform key pay decisions across the UK. The findings, released in the British Journal of Industrial Relations on Monday, suggest that, since 2004, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) had failed to properly account for the fact that it received more data from larger employers, when it reported its annual survey of hours and earnings (Ashe). Continue reading...

UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says

Truly delighted to announce that a new PhD program in Economic History and History of Economic Thought has been officially established in Italy!

Deadline for application is Sept. 2nd, 2025!
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Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought: A Panel Conversation, featuring Branko Milanovic and David Lay Williams Tuesday November 4th 5pm GMT

🎉 Join us for a free online event.
📅 Tues 4th Nov. 5pm GMT.
With: @brankomilan.bsky.social @laywilliams.bsky.social
Panel: @johncassidysays.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social
Register: bit.ly/StoneCentreInequalityDialogue

Candidates must have expertise and research interests in an area of philosophy and a demonstrable ability to conduct research that has a substantial connection to Artificial Intelligence (AI). We interpret a substantial connection to AI broadly to include, for example, the intersection of AI and philosophy of science, AI and logic/formal methods, AI and moral and political philosophy, and/or AI and philosophy of law. Candidates must be willing and able to make a substantial research-led contribution to the Department’s core teaching provision. (More information about our courses can be found here.)

Candidates must have expertise and research interests in an area of philosophy that has a substantial research connection to sustainability. Candidates must be able to develop a new course in philosophy and sustainability, and be able to make a substantial, research-led contribution to the Department’s core teaching provision. (More information about our courses can be found here.) This role is fully based in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, but involves extensive collaboration with LSE’s new Global School of Sustainability (GSoS). Candidates are expected to be committed to this collaboration and willing to contribute to GSoS activities. We therefore particularly welcome candidates whose work bears on GSoS’s five research themes.

Two job ads for people in philosophy in my dept (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD999/a... and www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD995/a...). Ever heard of this thing called AI? You probably haven't it's pretty niche. But if you have maybe apply? Also this even more niche thing (sustainability) so that too.

www.jstor.org/stable/25144...

Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939 Abstract. Teaching Gender explains the construction of the male/female and hetero/homo binaries in early-twentieth-century Britain through the improbable b

Also, in general don't spend £99 on a book! You can get it here if your institution subscribes to the OUP database: academic.oup.com/book/59787 or maybe you can request that a library purchase it.

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Truly delighted to announce that a new PhD program in Economic History and History of Economic Thought has been officially established in Italy!

Deadline for application is Sept. 2nd, 2025!
➡️ www.aispe.eu/en/news-en/1...

Quantification: History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Practice [Online Webinar] Quantification: History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Practice Online Webinar organised by the Society for the Study of Measurement Time: 9th August 2025: 9:00AM to 1:00PM (ET), 14:00 to 18:00 BST/WEST...

I'll be speaking at this online webinar on 9th August about "coproducing quantitative measures of value laden concepts: case studies from wellbeing" drawing on my research with @annaalexandrova.bsky.social among other things. The other speakers are great!

Register!
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The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Article: Economists and economics in policymaking: historical episodes and methodological perspectives (introduction to a special issue), by Ivan Boldyrev & Esther-Mirjam Sent
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(Econ) Editors of Bluesky -- do you know why some journals/editors choose to let the referees see the decision letters / other referee reports, and others do not?

2025 Annual Conference The 55th Annual Meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) will be held at the University of Warwick in Coventry on 3-5 September 2025. The conference, jointly hosted by the School …

The list of talks at this year's THETS conference is available, looks awesome! And I hope that other Warwick people who are interested in the topic -- like @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social , @yuvalmillo.bsky.social , and Matthew Watson -- will be there as well
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#CNRSleJournal 📰 44 ans après les premiers cas de sida, l’historienne Marion Aballéa retrace dans un ouvrage l’histoire sociale, économique, culturelle, sanitaire et scientifique de cette première pandémie.