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WP: Recent neoclassical contributions on the origins of inequality: a Sraffian critique, by Sergio Cesaratto
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A review of Manuela Moschella's book (Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy), by Elena Carletti
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Economic Theory in the Twentieth Century, An Intellectual History—Volume III This work gives insight to the thinking of the major international figures in economics as shown in major works published across the last 150 years.

has anyone read this? link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Article: Luigi Pasinetti's Discussions on Technical Progress and International Economic Relations: A View from Development Economics, by Florencia Sember
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WP: Retrospectives: W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard Economics, and Marginalist Wage Theory, by Daniel Peter Kuehn
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1/ Grateful to @willpooley.bsky.social for sending me his article “Who Believes in Belief?”—a sharp look at how slippery the word belief is, this time in the history of religious & magical practices. #History #philhist @rehpere.bsky.social @economicthought.bsky.social

On Another Theory of Marxian Exploitation with Oscar Lange and Paul Samuelson In a forthcoming review by my friend, M.A.

On Another Theory of Marxian Exploitation with Oscar Lange and Paul Samuelson open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

WP:Manufacturing 'Economics' Minds: Ideology, Authority, and Economics Education, by Mohsen Javdani & Ha-Joon Chang
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This impressive book was a subject of a symposium at this conference, which i couldn’t attend and sent a recording with my commentary. The centrepiece of the book is a model of a particular type of misery characteristic of a life in a market society 1/n

YouTube video by CORE Econ Simon Johnson: How do good institutions influence economic growth?

We're delighted to share the first of our new Economist In Action videos. @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social explains how to find out whether rich countries have good institutions because they are rich, or whether they are rich because their institutions are good.
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The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought Volume 32, Issue 3 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

EJHET current issue contains reviews of books on Greek economic thought, slavery and colonialism, British coop. Read Zouboulakis, Mueller, Dos Santos Ferreira and @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social take on Psalidopoulos, Pisanelli, Maurice Allais and Madden & Persky
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Pre-print: Trautwein's Challenge to the History of Economics, by John B. Davis
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What is the social responsibility of business: from Friedman’s ideas to “the Friedman doctrine” Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 1 Stop blaming Milton Friedman? This post belongs to a series exploring how economists have historically approached Corporate Social Responsibilit…

What is the social responsibility of business: from Friedman’s ideas to “the Friedman doctrine”

Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 1

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MIT Economics obituary for the legendary Stan Fischer:

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Article: Polish Post-Keynesianism: A Brief History, by Jan Toporowski & Gracjan Robert Bachurewicz
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Forthcoming: W. E. B. Du Bois and Economics: A Reappraisal, by Guy Numa & Sammy Zahran
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"Race in Marshall's Economics" now has its slot in the latest issue of Modern Intellectual History. I get to rub shoulders with a symposium on Isaiah Berlin! Thanks again to journal staff, editor, referees. #EconSky #historyofeconomics

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Article: Adam Smith’s stadial history: progress, population, and environment, by Leo Steeds

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Economists, Economic Knowledge, and Central Banks Aurélien Goutsmedt UCLouvain, ISPOLE; ICHEC Brussels Francesco Sergi Université Paris Est Créteil, LIPHA Juan Acosta Universidad del Valle Abstract What do economists do in central banks? Why do central banks hire economists? This book investigates the evolving role of economists and economic knowledge within central banks, arguing that their current centrality is neither self-evident nor historically inevitable. While the presence and influence of economists in central banks today may seem natural, this book shows that it is the result of a complex, gradual, and uneven historical process shaped by institutional structures, disciplinary transformations, and shifting relationships between science and policy. Drawing on a rich but dispersed body of literature, the book traces how economists progressively gained authority through the establishment of statistics departments, the adoption of macroeconometric models, and the emergence of a shared cognitive infrastructure between academia and central banks. Rather than focusing on individuals or doctrines, it examines general trends and institutional shifts across a series of national case studies to show how central banks function as boundary organizations, at the intersection of policy and science

What do economists do in central banks? How did they come to play such a central role?

We're excited to share the first draft of a Cambridge University Press Elements book project on how economists became key figures in central banking over the twentieth century.

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Stanley Fischer, Who Spread the Macroeconomic Gospel, Dies at 81 Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in two countries, Israel and the US, and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has died. He was 81.

Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in two countries, Israel and the US, and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has died. He was 81.

Article: Economic History And Development Policy: Douglass North’s Disillusionment With Simplistic, Market-oriented Policies, 1950s–1990s, by Cyril Jung
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10 faits sur l'immigration et les travailleur·ses étranger·es Pour l'égalité des droits et la dignité humaine, rétablissons les faits !

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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

Article: Symposium on general-equilibrium theory with rationing, by Alain Béraud

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"W. E. B. Du Bois and Economics: A Reappraisal" by Guy Numa and Sammy Zahran (forth. in the JEL)

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N. Emrah Aydinonat & Jack Vromen, Philosophy of Economics for Those Who Don’t Expect It (Yet Still Have to Take It) - PhilArchive Teaching a compulsory, large-scale Philosophy of Economics (PoE) course to economics students presents distinct challenges. Instructors face a heterogeneous student body with varying levels of interes...

Preprint is available on PhilArchive: philarchive.org/rec/AYDPOE-2

#EconSky The Chicago price theory prelim exam from the Winter quarter of 1963 transcribed from Zvi Griliches' copy and posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-prel...

WP: Essai sur la monnaie comme langage, by Jean Cartelier
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.