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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (2): 275–306.
Published: 01 April 2020
...@uniandes.edu.co ; Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac at andres.guiotisaac@sant.ox.ac.uk ; and Jimena Hurtado at jihurtad@uniandes.edu.co . Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Lauchlin Currie Albert O. Hirschman Colombia Development economics experts References Adelman Jeremy . 2013...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 53–76.
Published: 01 December 2010
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 49–76.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 June 2022
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (suppl_1): 272–294.
Published: 01 December 2014
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 315–345.
Published: 01 June 2017
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 473–497.
Published: 01 June 2020
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (4): 605–629.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 309–328.
Published: 01 December 2011
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2012) 44 (suppl_1): 114–136.
Published: 01 December 2012
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (2): 233–265.
Published: 01 June 2017
... analysis); the creation of a new social role: the economist/business expert with advanced academic training (who engaged in both practices and used each to serve the other); and the consequent development of new knowledge (especially in demand analysis and financial economics). Correspondence may...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (3): 507–527.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Erwin Dekker Abstract This paper analyzes the political-economic context of Jan Tinbergen's work as development planning expert in Turkey between 1960 and 1966. Tinbergen was brought in against the will of the Turkish government in early 1960, at the urging of the OECD and the IMF. After...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (3): 401–423.
Published: 01 June 2019
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 204–227.
Published: 01 December 2019
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2019) 51 (S1): 52–72.
Published: 01 December 2019
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (3): 561–587.
Published: 01 June 2020
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (5): 895–924.
Published: 01 October 2020
...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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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 207–226.
Published: 01 December 2021
... be done by someone who is not an expert on the cases under study. Pictorial Statistics Marcel Boumans This article discusses Francis Galton s method of inductive inference where the data are photographs. Although Galton used photographs of all kinds of objects, such as human faces, human skulls...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (Suppl_1): 315–342.
Published: 01 December 2010
... scientists were unwilling to get involved in social policy-making, which, ultimately, strengthened the image of economists as experts on social policy. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I wish to thank Roger E. Backhouse, Béatrice Cherrier, Philippe Fontaine, Craufurd Goodwin, Steven G...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (S1): 221–257.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of economic experts' descriptions . This article highlights one category of influential, quantitative descriptive claim: stylized facts. Stylized facts are simple empirical regularities in need of explanation. Focusing on the example of the gender wage gap in the United States, this article showcases how...
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