...Verena Halsmayer The essay discusses the historiographical strategy of “following artifacts” in the history of contemporary economics. Following models as artifacts means (1) to follow the shifts and changes in their form and meaning; (2) to follow the ideas, theories, fictions, and imaginary...

...Cecilia T. Lanata Briones This article examines the first two estimates of the Argentine cost of living index, focusing on their producers, Alejandro Bunge and José Figuerola. The Bunge index, released in 1918, did not hold as a stable social and political artifact because it lacked legitimacy...

... artifacts from courses that most often survive to the point of archival storage. An important question is just how well does the limited information in a syllabus and/ or exam reflect actual course content compared to, say, a near-stenographic set of student course notes. A casual comparison for a graduate...

... of econometrics has arisen primarily from within econometrics itself and that its stories have been written mainly by econometricians. The conclusion of the current survey is that econometrics as a discipline remains of interest only to the econometricians but that the artifacts created by econometricians have...

... of American Economics , edited by E. Roy Weintraub . History of Political Economy 46 (supplement): 229 – 51 . Halsmayer , V. 2018 . “ Following Artifacts .” History of Political Economy 50 : 629 – 34 . Helleiner , E. 2009 . “ Central Bankers as Good Neighbours: US Money...

... of the scientist’s failure and lack of ingenuity in applying the verities of received wisdom. The artifacts (tools) of the science direct practitioners to choose puzzles appro- priate to their use and hence likely to be solved. Normal science comes to an end when the weight of events...

... competition. Conflict and dispute over artifacts and propositions in a Lakatosian protective belt there have been aplenty in economics, but not struggles between rival programs with distinctive structures, and separate hard cores and heuristics. Challenges to marginal economics from the Marx...

...) In an obscure article, Hans Rieter (1990) has noted the striking resem- blance between Quesnay’s tableau économique and some unusual clocks that belonged to Gaspard Grollier de Servière, the owner of a cabinet of curiosities (see figs. 1 and 2). Like the other artifacts of Grollier’s cabinet...

.... Book Reviews 485 (In such a regime, the meaning of conventional production functions .is called in question, along with such artifacts as marginal productivities, isoquants, ridge lines, and all that.) A minor or secondary proposition is that initial distributions of wealth and income...

... with the construction, transformations, and effects of so-called applied models as they actively shaped not only economic research but also the practices, objects, and the very notion of macroeconomic planning. Adaptable to new contexts, remodeled, and reinterpreted, these artifacts showed a certain resilience...

... the mid-1760s, produced luxury articles for trade with the Far East (Harcourt-Smith 1933; Chapuis and Droz 1949, 109–14); public interest in the exotic artifacts produced for export is evinced as early as 1766 when the Gen- tleman’s Magazine (1766, 36:586) published a description of two curi- ous...

... the flow of labor across ‘districtboundaries). Smith saw mercantilist laws as ar- tifacts of an era long past that may have served a useful function at one time. But like an old road block that was built when protection was needed, when the service is no longer needed, the artifact is an im...

... Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , 2nd ed., edited by Durlauf Steven N. Blume Lawrence E. London : Palgrave Macmillan . Halsmayer Varena . 2018 . “ Following Artifacts .” In this volume . Howlett Peter Morgan Mary S. 2011 . How Well Do Facts Travel? Cambridge...

... instrument-object interaction. You may, of course, be seeing merely a consequence of this stable configuration (an “artifact of the measuring instrument”) and not the target phenomenon itself. But at any rate you certainly have no license to think that you are seeing the phenomenon itself...

... historical artifacts .23 Slavery, trading fairs, inefficient tax structures, and so had been created in response to given conditions of an earlier time. They were main- tained beyond the time for which they were appropriate by the interested parties they still served and so became obstacles...

.... 1988 . The New Classical Macroeconomics: A Sceptical Inquiry . Oxford: Blackwell. ———. 1995 . Facts and Artifacts: Calibration and the Empirical Assessment of Real Business Cycle Models. Oxford Economic Papers 47.1 : 24 –44. Howitt, Peter. 1986 . The Keynesian Recovery. Canadian Journal...

... was developed, and the phenomenon it was meant to explain, even granting for the moment that it was real and not a statistical artifact, belongs to quite a distant period of economic history. Yet the scripture continues to be repeated. Is the text book reader to gather that the theory...

... of the editors, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, states the basic premise of economic archaeology succinctly. The economic archaeologist uses the fragmentary evidence gleaned from archaeological remains and the distribution of artifacts to make inferences about the conceptual perspectives...

.... The economic archaeologist uses the fragmentary evidence gleaned from archaeological remains and the distribution of artifacts to make inferences about the conceptual perspectives of the populations being studied. The acceptance of modern economic gen- eralizations as statements of a natural science...

...” in modern terms) from data. The problem is, Which of the many possible inferences lead to a meaningful result? How can we distinguish fact from artifact? We are inclined to see meaningful patterns where they do not exist. To highlight this inclination, the authors introduce the term pareidolia...