...Katia Caldari; Muriel Dal Pont Legrand Abstract French economic expertise developed significantly during the interwar period when economic issues, and particularly those resulting directly from World War I, became the overriding concern for Europe's democracies. Before the end of World War II...

... such a monetary estimate was most likely to be produced. That strategy cut across social and epistemic commitments of different segments of the economics discipline, raising questions about the different meanings of expertise, and the role of economists in the legal, business, and public domain. This paper aims...

... Press. Weber, Max. [1904-5] 1958 . The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism .New York: Scribners. ____. [1927] 1995 . General Economic History . New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction. The Limits of Economic Expertise: Prophets, Engineers, and the State in the History of Development...

... Lane . Wetzsteon Ross . 2002 . Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910-1960 . New York : Simon and Schuster . Cultures of Expertise and the Public Interventions of Economists Tiago Mata and Steven G. Medema The inaugural winner of the Pulitzer...

... by De Marchi Neil , 355 – 73 . Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers . Wulwick Nancy . 1990 . “ The Mathematics of Economic Growth .” Working Paper 38 , Jerome Levy Institute . From Exploratory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow’s Growth Model as a Multipurpose Design...

... 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...

... and the expertise they possess. First documenting their growth bibliometrically, this article aims to illuminate the origins, content, and contexts of quasi-experimental research designs, which seek natural experiments to justify causal inference. To highlight lines of continuity and discontinuity in the transition...

... the military coup later that year he played a key role in the founding of the State Planning Organization as well as its institutional design. The organization was meant to represent neutral expertise above political parties, along the lines of a similar planning organization in the Netherlands. This article...

...Daniel Nientiedt Abstract Walter Eucken (1891–1950), the founder of German ordoliberalism, is best known for his work on economic policy. According to the orthodox view, giving policy advice involves not only technical expertise but also judgments of value. Against this background, the present...

.... In the negotiations that opposed them to the supporters of the bill, as well as in the analysis of the bill they produced, they insisted on the existence of a trade-off between inflation and unemployment and referred frequently to the famous Phillips curve. They endeavored to anchor their expertise on academic...

... could not avoid lending his expertise to his country in the dark days of the Napoleonic wars. Thus Thornton appears as a disinterested economist whose motivation to serve came from his devotion to Christ. Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Acaster, E. J. T. 1974 –75. Henry Thornton...

... book, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science , that academic economists should not indulge in such activity. The present essay describes how he fulfilled what he saw as his duty to use his expertise to enlighten nonexperts, especially once he became professor of economics...

...Gil Eyal; Moran Levy This essay argues that the term public intellectual is too narrow for historical research about the public influence of economists and economic expertise. We propose, instead, the concept of public interventions to inform a more comprehensive approach that broadens...

...Philip Mirowski; Edward Nik-Khah We explore recent arguments that economists may not serve to enlighten their publics so much as foster surplus confusion and doubt concerning controversies in their areas of expertise, particularly with regard to the recent worldwide economic crisis. After...

... would run the technocracy they envisioned, and a faith that expertise could not only serve the social good, but also identify it; and that, while antimonopoly, the progressives believed that increasing industrial consolidation was inevitable, and desirable, consistent with their faith in planning...

... is that economics is featured in news when it is aligned with preexisting journalism practices. Third, journalists acknowledge the existence of domains of expertise but do not feel accountable to them. Ideas that economists may think of as their own are appropriated, repurposed, reinterpreted, and then again...

... that will prevail after the war, which was instrumental for a planning policy. Both the development of an accounting system and attempts to implement economic planning contributed to the establishment of economic expertise and to the transformation of the language of economics. ADVANCE PUBLICATION Wartime Economics...

...Harald Hagemann Abstract The need for analysis of the German war economy became urgent after the defeat of France and the threat of an invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany after the battle of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. The expertise of émigré scholars now was in strong demand. First, this essay...

... 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...

... important tensions in postcolonial expertise. They also help recover earlier framings of inequality, which centered on midcentury concerns about “levels of living” and economic power, rather than the simple distribution of income. Testing Measures: Decolonization and Economic Power in 1960s India Poornima...