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Julien Gradoz

@juliengradoz.bsky.social

Assistant professor of economics at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France). History of Economics. Product quality. Contested markets. https://sites.google.com/site/gradozjulien

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Article: No More Than Exchanging Tools: Jacob Marschak and the Early Years of Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Between Economics and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950–1956, by Catherine Herfeld & Edoardo Peruzzi

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16.04.2025 11:10 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats Erwin! I’m really happy for you — soon you'll hit the 10,000 mark! 🚀🚀🚀

17.07.2025 08:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Merci beaucoup Jérôme !! :)

30.06.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Merci beaucoup Morten !!! :)

30.06.2025 10:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Merci beaucoup j'espère qu'on se verra bientôt ! :)

30.06.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ainsi que mon coauteur @erwindekker.bsky.social pour nos nombreuses années de collaboration !

30.06.2025 06:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Je remercie en particulier mes deux directeurs de thèse, mes collègues du @clerseumr8019.bsky.social, les membres du réseau @rehpere.bsky.social et les membres du @hopecenter.bsky.social

30.06.2025 06:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

J'ai l'immense plaisir d'annoncer que je rejoins l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 comme maître de conférences à la rentrée !

Hâte de débuter cette nouvelle étape et de découvrir un nouvel environnement académique.

Merci à toutes celles et ceux qui m’ont soutenu dans ce parcours 🎉

30.06.2025 06:33 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

Félicitations !!!!!!!!!!! :)

17.06.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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

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.

▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...

02.06.2025 07:17 — 👍 27    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0
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For those in the Edinburgh area, Francesco Sergi and I will present Friday our special section on the "Scientization of Central Banks", soon to be published in @finandsoc.bsky.social

Thanks to Nathan Coombs and the SKAPE center for inviting us.
More info ➡️ www.skape.ed.ac.uk/events/

12.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Article: “Economics Is Not a Man's Field”: CSWEP and the First Gender Reckoning in Economics, 1971–1991, by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Beatrice Cherrier & John D. Singleton

doi.org/10.1215/0018...

17.04.2025 11:20 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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Chapitre XV. Assimilation, réarmement libéral et « drôle » de guerre (novembre 1938-juin 1940) Une fois l’hypothèque du Front populaire définitivement levée, la direction de l’économie et des finances, conduite par les gouvernants Daladier-Reynaud coïncide avec une certaine restauration financi...

Dans ce livre de Margairaz, il y a une section intitulée Sauvy contre Sauvy, peut-être ça ? books.openedition.org/igpde/2307?l...

29.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

C'est que je doute même de l'existence du chapitre ahaha

29.03.2025 11:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Etudes & documents : index général : tome I à V : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 1 vol. (56 p.) ; 22 cm

Aucune trace du doc dans l'index général de la collection ahaha archive.org/details/etud...

29.03.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh la belle tasse ! ;)

24.03.2025 11:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My paper on the Indian Reception to Piero Sraffa where I focus on book reviews by 3 Indian economists is now published in the Centro Sraffa working paper series.

www.centrosraffa.org/cswp_details...

21.03.2025 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The Role of Narratives in Transferring Rational Choice Models into Political Science Abstract. One striking observation in the history of rational choice models is that those models have not only been used in economics but been spread widely across the social and behavioral sciences. ...

👉Check out the paper of our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social and her PhD student Alexandra Quack on the role of narratives in transferring rational choice models into political science, published in 2023 in the journal History of Political Economy.

read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

12.03.2025 12:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Impatient de l'écouter ! :)

27.02.2025 16:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who can name the economist on the right? Answer in the comments, as well as a link announcing the opening of his papers for research at the @rubensteinlib part of Economists' Paper Archive. A special thanks to @soroushm669531 for his work on this archive.

19.02.2025 20:46 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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WP: A Note on the Origins of The General Theory of Second Best: The Accounts of Kelvin John Lancaster, Richard George Lipsey and Harry Gordon Johnson, by Julien Gradoz
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29.01.2025 15:00 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

C'est intéressant, tu as pas mal de travaux consacrés à la co-construction de la qualité, avec des études de cas sur les services chez Callon ou chez Beckert et Musselin :)

24.01.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WP: Promoting Statistical Methods to Engineers and Economists: Walter Andrew Shewhart and Statistical Quality Control, by Julien Gradoz
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24.01.2025 15:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Karpik, voulant ajouter les biens singuliers à ces typologies, a tendance à lui-même agglomérer les objets manufacturés et les services derrière l'étiquette englobante de "biens singuliers". Bien sûr, ce n'est qu'une hypothèse :)

24.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Or, ces distinctions, telles que mobilisées dans les modèles, ont tendance à agglomérer les objets manufacturés et les services. Par exemple, les modèles d'asymétries d'information sont suffisamment généraux pour s'appliquer à la fois à qualité des voitures ou à la productivité des travailleurs.

24.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Comme ça, j'aurais envie de dire que Karpik se positionne par rapport à la typologie des biens en usage par ce qu'il considère être l'économie néoclassique, constituée des "biens homogènes" et "biens différenciés", ou des "biens de recherche" et "biens d'expérience".

24.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘The economics of singularities’ by Lucien Karpik: debts and criticisms This article examines ‘the economics of singularities’ by Lucien Karpik, which is a sociological theory explaining the functioning of markets for a specific type of goods, labeled as ‘singularities...

C'est une très bonne question. Dans l'article qu'on vient de publier avec Fabien Eloire sur l'économie des singularités (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) on n'aborde pas du tout ce sujet, et Karpik non plus d'autant que je me souvienne.

24.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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THE CHARACTERIZATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH The definitions of goods and services have been debated among economists for more than two centuries. This article seeks to consider the definitions currently used from a critical perspective and to ....

And also the answer by Jean Gadrey : doi.org/10.1111/j.14...

24.01.2025 02:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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