...Roger E. Backhouse; Béatrice Cherrier This article challenges the widely held notion that developments in computing are sufficient to explain the recent turn to applied economics. Advances in computer hardware were undoubtedly necessary, and they were sufficient to ensure that there were...

...Roger E. Backhouse; Béatrice Cherrier It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise...

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..., empirical data, bits of economic theory, institutional arrangements, the aims and hopes of economic planning, images and visions of the economy, and the practical requirements and affordances of computing technologies. The article traces the movements and changes of the multi-sector growth model...

... states. Policy in this world therefore means tracing an optimal trajectory taking all these issues into account. To show this shift in epistemology and ontology, the history of economics is interwoven with the history of mathematics, which cannot be detangled from the emergence of the digital computer...

...Kenneth Button This article looks at how a group of diverse economic experts tackled a major macroeconomic question and managed to reach a consensus conclusion. This was despite being confronted with limited data, embryonic general-equilibrium methodologies, and limited computing power...

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.... Moreover, his death preceded the application of its central mechanism to public, urban, and environmental topics via hedonic, sorting, and computational general equilibrium models. Viewed in this way, the history of Tiebout's article, and thereby the history of public economics, has remarkably little to do...

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... the certainty equivalence property, which made their solutions feasible for the computers available at that time. Appearing in that narrative are Poole (1970) and Sargent and Wallace (1975), who were among the first to apply the tool to monetary economics. In this article I argue that in addition to offering...

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... principle through an accessible, computable algorithmic approach addressed Wiener s search for a scienti c founda- tion. Optimization also greatly increased the compatibility of control engineering with economic theory. By the time of that second shotgun marriage, the economist had joined the wedding party...

... from reform conceptual- ization. Emphasis was placed on automated systems, computational algo- rithms, forecasting aggregate technological development, and social change. Medium- to long-term economic development was modeled around program-goal based plans (Danilov-Danil yan 1977).15 All...

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