Podcast: Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode Fifty One
Pub date: 2021-12-14

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Jenn, Çınla, and Scott discuss a number of recent additions to the literature in history of economic thought and methodology.

If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls):

Searching for a Tide Table for Business: Interwar Conceptions of Statistical Inference in Business Forecasting

Laetitia Lenel

History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174

https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/53/S1/139/175168/Searching-for-a-Tide-Table-for-BusinessInterwar

Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and policy change: An exploration of impact, location, and temporality of policy advice

Ishani Mukherjee and Sarah Geist

Administration and Society, 52(10), 1538-1561

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095399720918315

Knowledge, behaviour, and policy: questioning the epistemic presuppositions of applying behavioural science in public policymaking

Magdalena Małecka

Synthese, Volume 199, 5311–5338

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03026-6

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