European Economics and the Early Years of the "International Seminar on Macroeconomics"

Aurélien Goutsmedt, Matthieu Renault and Francesco Sergi
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Francesco Sergi: Université Paris Est Créteil - LIPHA

No 2020-26, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: The International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISoM) is an annual conference, which was co-sponsored during 15 years (1978-1993) by the French EHESS and the NBER. This article uncovers the scientific and institutional dynamics unrolling from this cooperation. We argue that the ISoM contributed greatly to the making of a European network of economists sharing similar professional and intellectual standards: indeed, the Seminar gathered macroeconomists who were leading the development of this European network. We illustrate how the ISoM stood at the crossroad of two types of 'internationalisation' of economics: the integration of European national communities and the process of 'Americanisation' of economics. While existing literature on 'internationalisation' focuses on the national level, our contribution investigates the European level. Moreover, we unveil how two research programmes in macroeconomics (namely the disequilibrium theory and large-scale macroeconometric modelling) played a significant role in this process.

Keywords: International Seminar on Macroeconomics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS); Disequilibrium Theory; Large-Scale Macroeconometric Modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 B22 B30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2020-06
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Journal Article: European Economics and the Early Years of the International Seminar on Macroeconomics (2021)
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