On my mind this (busy) week

Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci

(a question brought to you by a job market committee member attending a lot of flyouts right now)

[HELP NEEDED] Is there any literature assessing whether economists' epistemological preference over structural vs reduced-form methods is gendered?

Thanks

Beyond Promotion - What Happens When the Race Is Over A meditation on the peculiar invisibility of those who've stopped climbing There comes a point in an academic career when the ladders disappear. Not because they were never there, they were, propped a...

Beyond Promotion - What Happens When the Race Is Over [I can't agree more, seen on LinkedIn via @undercoverhist.bsky.social 🙏🏼]
www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond...

As I learned about the passing of Roger Guesnerie this morning, I came across a reference written by Leonid Hurwicz in support of Guesnerie's application for a position of Directeur d'étude at the EHESS in 1978. K Arrow also wrote in support. Guesnerie was elected to a position the following year

Historians colleagues who (still) have essay-writing based courses, who supervise master and PhD students, how do you discuss the use of generative AI for research and writing with them (sources, do/don't, etc)?

Thanks!

OMG so much fun; makes up for all the scares when teaching them how to drive, the worries over uni choice, tuition fees, global warming and war prospects. This generation is cynical but also witty, creative, untamed and unbroken. Listening to them gives hope.

Here to tell you than in 5 years, when you parent a mix of young adults and teenagers in a chaotic world, you'll feel more like the owner of a comedy club. All you have to do is lots of scheduling and cooking. Then showtime, grab popcorn, sit back and enjoy the conversations between them over dinner

💼 Au 1er semestre 2026, le projet #ETRANHET du @cired.bsky.social recrute un·e stagiaire niveau Master SHS pour étudier comment les économistes ont pensé la ❓énergétique pendant la décolonisation 🇫🇷 (1946-80).

🗓️ Candidature avant le 15/01/2026

Tous les détails : www.centre-cired.fr/wp-content/u...

[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers.

One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!

The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Visiting Scholars program.
For a complete description of the program and how to apply, please visit the Center website:

hope.econ.duke.edu

Come join us!

15-3 | 2025 Accounting for Quality in Economics

➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics
Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.

15-2 | 2025 Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts

2 Œconomia issues for the price of 1!
Œconomia 15(2) & 15(3) are now online:

➡️ 15(2) — Markets and Democracy: Complementarities and Conflicts
Edited by A. Chirat, N. Colin-Jaeger, C. Orozco Espinel, and C. Hédoin
🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18...

Thank you for the support! The good thing with December, the lack of light, the job market and ppl becoming unfiltered is that, at that point, I don't give a shit about anything anymore. Zen is just over-exhaustion, in the end

If you think you're alone in experiencing a brain-eating December, I just took a train the wrong way, then another one to return to initial station

I realized it was actually the right way, only had I forgotten the name of the next station

The next train has just been canceled

You're welcome

This is something utterly remarkable.
First, I very much enjoyed Steven's intro -- I wish every scholar could deserve -- and receive! -- such a thoughtful eulogy. The fact that he is seen as an inspiration for younger scholars makes me proud of the discipline of economics.

History of Climate Economics Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

📣 New call for paper in OEconomia: "History of Climate Economics", edited by Christophe Cassen, @beatricecointe.bsky.social and Antoine Missemer.

Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

(2) Dynare is a digital commons, and Juillard's career offers lessons in what it takes to sustain one: the diverse skills of an economist, modeler, coder, fundraiser, and community manager, all combined in a single sustained effort

Comments welcome!

...computational economists like Juillard have been largely absent from the stories macros—and econs generally—tell themselves about their past. So this is a step towards a richer & fact-based history of macro that covers diversity of models, practices, skills, sites, intellectual & social goals

1) Building theoretical models w/ rational expectations & frictions was necessary but far from sufficient for macro-modeling shift academia & central banks since 1970s. Equally essential was the work of building, maintaining, and circulating the algorithms and software to solve such models. Yet....

Aurélien Saïdi, @cescoeco.bsky.social & I have a new JEDC paper on Michel Juillard's contribution to macro, aka his role as architect & curator of open-source Dynare software—used worldwide to estimate and simulate DSGE models

It's important for 2 reasons:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On monte un groupe de parole?

Commissariat au Plan, INSEE : après les guerres, de nouveaux lieux pour produire le savoir économique x

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Muriel Dal-Pont évoque l'évolution de l'expertise économique en France dans Entendez-vous l'éco.

The book is a intellectual history of global development through the biographies and ideas of six South Asian economists, all members of the Cambridge Apostles secret society at a point 2/

Nice. It must have been very exciting times

How modern economics learned French: Jacques Drèze and the foundation of CORE The Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), founded in 1966, was one of the channels through which economic modelling practices were imported from the USA to Europe. Officially model...

We of course know all this (and there's a beautiful paper by Till Duppe on the history of the CORE www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...). The first post mentions Leuven because this is where the archives we're using here are located

#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"

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)

#EEAfiles

1986: there's a new association for European Economists

New member, this is how to fill the directory sheet