Historian of applied economics
(macro, public, urban, ag, env, design, tractability, computational econ & more)
CNRS & CREST, Ecole Polytechnique
Alain trannoy masterfully kicking off an interfield and interdisciplinary workshop at Lyon 3 on expertise in economics with these words
"There are 3 sure things in life: death, global warming and taxation"
Earlier this year, I took part in a workshop on methods and approaches in the history of economic thought (HET). Drawing on my habilitation work, I wrote this article. It makes the case for a social history of economic thought.
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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UBG9X...
I really like the detail of this press cutting *Robots works problem never before solved* … and then it’s a picture of a woman doing the work 🤡 #AI #hiddenlabour
Nicolas Brisset
1. Today at #eshethes2026, G. Serra convened a panel on the histories of African economic thought and gave a fascinating presentation about an upcoming online database of African academic journals that will open research perspectives for all scholars interested in decolonising economic knowledge.
I’m happy to share that today I was awarded the 2026 Craufurd Goodwin Best Article on the History of Economics for my paper on Warren Nutter’s Soviet economy esearch at the CIA. It’s one of my favorite papers and it’s a nice one to have won because it exemplifies how I approach history of economics.
This article investigates the exclusion of “consumption” from John Stuart Mill’s definition of political economy (1836). Unlike production and distribution, consumption is not an economic activity ...
What made "European" economic research unique between the 1980s & 2010s?
Some initial results based on topic-modeling:
▶️ Labor markets (wages, unemployment) & experimental econ dominated among Europe-affiliated authors
▶️ European journals (EER, JEEA) leaned into international economics
#rstats
