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Working Papers

2024

1. Times of Change
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science

2023

2. 2022 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AS ECONOMIC SELF-PORTRAITURE
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article 2022 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AS ECONOMIC SELF-PORTRAITURE, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press (2023) (2023)
3. Materials Selection in Economic Modeling
   Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics
4. Review of “The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach” by Peter Galbács
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
5. The Computerization of Economics: Three Lessons for Economics
   Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2023)

2022

6. Progress in Economics
   Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics

2020

7. Flattening the Curve is Flattening the Complexity of Covid-19
   Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics
8. Pictorial Statistics
   Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics

2019

9. From Dirty Data to Tidy Facts: Clustering Practices in Plant Phenomics and Business Cycle Analysis
   Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics
10. The engineering tools that shaped the rational expectations revolution
    Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics View citations (4)
11. Visualising Ignorance
    Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics

2018

12. Survey on Recent Work in the History of Econometrics: A Witness Report
    Working Papers, Utrecht School of Economics

2011

13. A history of the histories of econometrics
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (7)
    Also in Post-Print, HAL (2011) View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article A History of the Histories of Econometrics, History of Political Economy, Duke University Press (2011) View citations (7) (2011)

2007

14. Battle in the planning office: biased experts versus normative statisticians
    Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History

2005

15. When evidence is not in the mean
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)

Undated

16. Mark Blaug: A Rebel with Many Causes
    Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series, Center for the History of Political Economy View citations (3)

Journal Articles

2023

1. 2022 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AS ECONOMIC SELF-PORTRAITURE
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, 45, (3), 367-383
   See also Working Paper 2022 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AS ECONOMIC SELF-PORTRAITURE, SocArXiv (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
2. Peter Galbács, The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach (Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, 2020), pp. xix + 377, $75 (paperback). ISBN: 9780128165652
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2023, 45, (3), 535-537

2021

3. Retreat from normativism
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2021, 28, (1), 60-66 View citations (1)

2020

4. William Deringer Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 440, $46.50 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780674971875
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020, 42, (1), 136-138

2019

5. A critique of the history of economic ideas
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2019, 26, (4), 385-388

2017

6. A Few Hares to Chase. The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips, by Alan Bollard
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, 24, (5), 1113-1116
7. Michael H. Turk, The Idea of History in Constructing Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 242, $163 (hardcover), $54.95 (e-book). ISBN 978-1-138-80889-8 (hardcover); 978-1-315-75036-1 (e-book)
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, 39, (3), 405-406

2016

8. Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One. ByMeghnad Desai. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. xii + 287 pp. Figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $28.00. ISBN: 978-0-300-21607-3
   Business History Review, 2016, 90, (1), 188-191
9. Methodological ignorance: A comment on field experiments and methodological intolerance
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2016, 23, (2), 139-146
10. Methodological institutionalism as a transformation of structural econometrics
    Review of Political Economy, 2016, 28, (3), 417-425 View citations (2)
11. Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine, eds., A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 260, $95. ISBN 978-1-107-03772-4
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2016, 38, (4), 507-509
12. Suppes’s outlines of an empirical measurement theory
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2016, 23, (3), 305-315

2015

13. Review of Till Düppe and E. Roy Weintraub, "Finding Equilibrium. Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit", Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. xxv + 276
    History of Economic Ideas, 2015, 23, (1), 192-195
14. WITH SUCH A FRIEND OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? - Steven Kates, Defending the History of Economic Thought (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar), pp. x, 140, $103. ISBN 978-1-84844-820-9
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 37, (1), 139-144

2014

15. GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History. ByDiane Coyle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 159 pp. Figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-15679-8
    Business History Review, 2014, 88, (4), 799-801
16. Haavelmo’s Epistemology for an Inexact Science
    History of Political Economy, 2014, 46, (2), 211-229 View citations (2)

2013

17. A Nobel Prize for Empirical Macroeconomics: Assessing the Contributions of Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims
    Review of Political Economy, 2013, 25, (1), 39-56
18. John B. Davis and D. Wade Hands (eds), The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011, x + 542 pages, ISBN: 978-1848447547
    OEconomia, 2013, 2013, (02), 319-322

2012

19. Mark Blaug (1927-2011). An unrepentant Lakatosian
    History of Economic Ideas, 2012, 20, (1), 11-24
20. Observations in a Hostile Environment: Morgenstern on the Accuracy of Economic Observations
    History of Political Economy, 2012, 44, (5), 114-136 View citations (6)

2011

21. A History of the Histories of Econometrics
    History of Political Economy, 2011, 43, (5), 5-31 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper A history of the histories of econometrics, MPRA Paper (2011) View citations (7) (2011)
22. The two-model problem in rational decision making
    Rationality and Society, 2011, 23, (3), 371-400

2010

23. The Problem of Passive Observation
    History of Political Economy, 2010, 42, (1), 75-110 View citations (2)

2009

24. Dynamizing Stability
    History of Political Economy, 2009, 41, (5), 127-146
25. N. Emrah Aydinonat, The Invisible Hand in Economics. How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2008, pp. xvi+254
    History of Economic Ideas, 2009, 17, (3), 207-210

2007

26. Philippe Fontaine and Robert Leonard (Eds) The Experiment in the History of Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2005) pp. xiii, 158, $65, ISBN 0-415-34429-8
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2007, 29, (2), 263-265

2003

27. Robert Leeson, ed., A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. xvii, 515, $100. ISBN 0-521-57135-9
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2003, 25, (3), 372-376

2002

28. Ceteris paribus conditions: materiality and the application of economic theories
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2002, 8, (1), 11-26 View citations (5)

2001

29. Fisher's Instrumental Approach to Index Numbers
    History of Political Economy, 2001, 33, (5), 313-344 View citations (4)

1999

30. Representation and stability in testing and measuring rational expectations
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 1999, 6, (3), 381-402 View citations (3)

1995

31. Frisch on testing of business cycle theories
    Journal of Econometrics, 1995, 67, (1), 129-147 View citations (2)
32. Tinbergen's Cycle: An Arithmetic Error? - TINBERGEN'S CYCLE: AN ARITHMETIC ERROR?
    Econometric Theory, 1995, 11, (2), 389-391

Books

2015

1. Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (5)

Edited books

2013

1. Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (2)

Chapters

2018

1. Introduction to the Symposium “Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise”
   A chapter in Including a Symposium on Mary Morgan: Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise, 2018, vol. 36B, pp 3-10

2016

2. Econometrics
   Chapter 9 in Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume III, 2016, pp 106-116 View citations (9)

2013

3. An unrepentant Lakatosian
   Chapter 13 in Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes, 2013, pp 177-190
4. Introduction
   Chapter 1 in Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes, 2013, pp 1-8 View citations (23)

2012

5. Sims, Christopher Albert (born 1942)
   Palgrave Macmillan

2008

6. A History of Econometrics in France From natural order to artificial worldsle Gall's
   A chapter in A Research Annual, 2008, pp 139-146

2004

7. Models in Economics
   Chapter 13 in The Elgar Companion To Economics and Philosophy, 2004