Ivan Boldyrev

Yes, it makes the 'performance' culture of 'look how cool I am' indistinguishable from meaningful exchange of ideas

a section on Jensen here #historyoffinance
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A controversy about modeling practices: the case of inequity aversion This paper studies the controversy on Fehr and Schmidt's model of inequity aversion. It borrows insights from disciplines such as philosophy and the sociology of science that have specialized in st...

Shleifer was involved in corruption scandals, and there was a long debate around Fehr and Schmidt 1999 — now covered in the critical literature www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cool conference on post-structuralist approaches to the economic

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"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

(I vote for Bowles, but he is unlikely to win)
The wisdom of the Nobel committee would be to combine the winners approaching the same topic from different perspectives

Jensen passed away last year, Shleifer and Fehr are highly unlikely contenders (unless sth very unusual happens), I vote for Bowles, one of the real thinkers in the discipline

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Philosophy and Finance: Ten Open Questions This volume presents ten thought-provoking essays exploring issues in the philosophy of finance that are crucial for the economy and society.

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[These course] motivate students to read diverse literature in economics and across disciplines, helping develop those delicate intellectual connections informing and supporting the versatility of our profession.

"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."

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My office bookshelves

YouTube video by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Author Pamela McCorduck Interviews Herb Simon

absolutely fascinating - Pamela McCorduck interviews Herbert Simon in 1974, history of #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkO...

Edoardo Peruzzi on the history of 'competition' #historyofmicro

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Capitalism No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...

One of the founders of the history of capitalism, seems to be foundational

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Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.

will do that too, soon... crazy times

The WP is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My pedagogy piece (ending with Kafka btw) is officially out, we’ve just had a lively discussion of the book and the project in Bayreuth
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The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) met at Warwick The School of Law and the Department of Economics hosted the 55th Annual THETS Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2025. Annual meetings have been held since 1968, making THETS one of the oldest established...

Bravo, @dgindis.bsky.social and Cecilia Lanata-Briones!
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His previous book on Rimbaud was fine

Venice was fantastic, even too intensive at times. New people, incredibly smart and insightful, a vibrant, ironic, beautiful collective intelligence. Off to the next conference (and almost final for this year) -- INEM meeting at Bayreuth.
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Bravo! (I learned a lot from Dorfman's history of linear optimization when writing on Kantorovich)

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

I am a fox dreaming of a hedgehog

And a paper by @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social on 'A Bigger Game: Criticizing Market Design Models'
#ENPOSS2025

UK trip was fantastic — thanks to colleagues and friends who hosted me and shared so many meaningful conversations.

Next stop: Venice for the ENPOSS Conference at Ca’ Foscari (Sept 10–12). I’ll be giving a talk on some methodological disagreements in market design.
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17th HISRECO Conference Program Day 1 – Thursday, 23.10.2025 Ulbo de Sitter Room | 9:30 – 16:50 9:30–9:40 Opening remarks (HISRECO team) 9:40–10:30 Murat Bakeev (Leibniz University Hannover) How Artificially Intelligent Agents En…

HISRECO program is now available online!
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Against academic monocultures: a(n anti-)workshop series On refinding/rewilding the academic ‘self’ Have you lost your way in the academia? Academic culture can make us feel tired, depleted and exhausted. It is a culture that privileges production (indee…

Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below.

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