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... of a powerful regulatory state, guided by expert economic advisers, whose scientific training and credentials were supplied by the nascent research universities. Progressive economists called this new model of economic governance social control . Social control was less a coherent agenda of substantive goals...

[email protected] ; Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac at [email protected] ; and Jimena Hurtado at [email protected] . Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Lauchlin Currie Albert O. Hirschman Colombia Development economics experts References Adelman Jeremy . 2013...

...Romain Huret This essay analyzes the network of social experts who launched the War on Poverty in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations from 1963 to 1968. If they are often neglected in historical accounts, which are focused on public intellectuals and presidential advisers, these experts played...

...Federico D'Onofrio; Hannah Tyler Abstract By looking at the life, travels, and work of Wolf Ladejinsky, one of the leading American experts and advisers on agrarian reforms in Asia during the postwar era, this article sheds light on the practices of development experts. Ladejinsky's work shows how...

...Harro Maas This article examines how Samuelson defined his own role as an economist as a technical expert, who walked what he called the “middle of the road” to—seemingly—stay out of the realm of politics. As point of entry I discuss the highly tempting offers made by Theodore M. Schultz...

...Poornima Paidipaty In October of 1960, shortly after the conclusion of India’s Second Five- Year Plan , Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru convened a high-level expert panel to investigate whether the fruits of recent economic growth had been equitably distributed across the country, or whether...

...Thomas A. Stapleford Prior to the 1960s most American economists rejected hedonic techniques as a solution to the problem of quality change in price indexes. I argue that behind that judgment lay a deeper conceptual divide over how best to define and assess product quality: through expert testing...

... empiricism of the 1950s on the difference between natural science and social science: because social science is inexact we need experts to ensure that observations are “scientific.” Moreover, in a “hostile” and “secret” world we need experts to assess the accuracy of the observations. Copyright 2012...

...Harro Maas; Andrej Svorenčík This paper examines consulting and expert work performed by (experimental) economists for the Exxon Valdez litigation case. One of the issues at stake was the use of a specific method, contingent valuation, to estimate the so-called passive use value part of the damage...

... 1956, economic experts, including politicians and journalists as well as economists, began to observe a peculiarity accompanying the ongoing inflation, namely, an apparent lack of excess aggregate demand, and they placed great emphasis on cost-push inflation theories in their interpretations...

... experts in the Soviet Union. Systems expertise is largely missing from existing work on the history of Soviet infrastructure. The article analyzes the development of governmental, managerial, and industrial applications of systems analysis in the Soviet context, as well as the transfer of Soviet systems...

... economic knowledge among the nonacademic public, not only through politically engaged writing in the journal Ekonomická revue , but also through research on management to change managers’ behavior, habits, and competencies. In this important communication with nonacademic recipients, experts translated...

... conducted in Washington, DC, Brasilia, and São Paulo among think tanks, governmental sectors, the World Bank, and market research institutes. By foregrounding the workings of a transnational network of experts, I chronicle how the middle-class language traversed circuits of science, policymaking, and market...

...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...

... be done by someone who is not an expert on the cases under study. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 composite portrait eugenics familiarization objectivity trained judgement References Ambrosio Chiara . 2016 . “ Composite Photographs...

... and that the still nascent sciences of society could explain and control the causes of economic ills; that the progressives believed that intellectuals should guide social and economic progress, a belief erected upon two subsidiary faiths, a faith in the disinterestedness and incorruptibility of the experts who...

... of experts (arranged in scientific teams) were embodied within a new scientific practice (macroeconometric modeling). References Acosta Juan Pinzón-Fuchs Erich . Forthcoming . “ Peddling Macroeconometric Modelling and Quantitative Policy Analysis: The Early Years of the SSRC’s Committee...

... in their opposition. The more reform-minded university professors, as well as the sociologists- economists of the Durkheimian school, were unenthusiastic about policies meant to safeguard competition because they viewed “excessive” market competition as destabilizing and wasteful. Finally, the most prominent experts...

...François Allisson Abstract The French Marxist economist Charles Bettelheim (1913–2006) conducted after the end of World War II important scientific activity on economic planning, together with an international consulting activity in developing countries, as a non-Soviet expert on Soviet planning...

... Committee (TECO) operated to provide knowledge and expertise to “intermediate development” Mediterranean countries. TECO, through a network of experts, concentrated and disseminated data, ideas, and economic policy practices to promote the “modernization” of countries not fully integrated...