[Selections by Humberto Barreto for SHOE list.]
nep-hpe <http://nep.repec.org/nep-hpe.html> New Economics Papers
<http://nep.repec.org/> on History and Philosophy of Economics
Issue of 2022‒10‒31
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. The Politics of Funding: the Rockefeller Foundation and French
Economics, 1945–1955
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-942746571422703317_p1> By Serge
Benest <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Serge%20Benest>
2. The Role of Cliometrics in History and Economics
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-942746571422703317_p2> By Claude
Diebolt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Claude%20Diebolt>;
Michael
Haupert
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Michael%20Haupert>
3. Today’s economics: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-942746571422703317_p3> By Ambrosino,
Angela
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ambrosino,%20Angela>;
Cedrini,
Mario
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Cedrini,%20Mario>; B.
Davis, John
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=B.%20Davis,%20John>
4. Material conditions and ideas in global history
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-942746571422703317_p4> By Motadel,
David
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Motadel,%20David>;
Drayton,
Richard
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Drayton,%20Richard>
5. The Analysis of Inequality in the Bretton Woods Institutions
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-942746571422703317_p5> By
Ferreira,Francisco
H. G.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ferreira,Francisco%20H.%20G.>
6. To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth
Theory <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-942746571422703317_p7>
By Henrekson,
Magnus
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Henrekson,%20Magnus>;
Johansson,
Dan <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Johansson,%20Dan>
; Karlsson, Johan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Karlsson,%20Johan>
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1. The Politics of Funding: the Rockefeller Foundation and French
Economics, 1945–1955
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03779060>
By: Serge Benest
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Serge%20Benest> (CSO
- Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po
- Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Economic History, Institutions,
Politics and World Economy)
Abstract: Following World War II, the director of the social sciences
division at the Rockefeller Foundation, the industrial economist Joseph H.
Willits, thought it important to extend its activities to Europe,
especially France. His agenda was to strengthen institutional economics and
to create modern research centers with a view to stabilizing the political
situation. In the postwar decade, almost all economic research centers in
France were funded by the Foundation, which helped provide greater autonomy
to French economists within academia but failed to reshape French economic
training and research.
Date: 2022–06–27
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03779060&r=
2. The Role of Cliometrics in History and Economics
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03778226>
By: Claude Diebolt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Claude%20Diebolt> (BETA
- Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL -
Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique); Michael Haupert
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Michael%20Haupert>
Abstract: How did cliometrics in particular, and economic history in
general, arrive at this crossroads, where it is at once considered to be a
dying discipline and one that is spreading through the economics discipline
as a whole? To understand the current status and future prospects of
economic history, it is necessary to understand its past.
Keywords: Cliometrics,Economic history,Robert Fogel,Douglass
North,Economic growth,Econometrics,Interdisciplinary economic history,New
economic history,Multidisciplinary,Methodology,Quantitative
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03778226&r=
3. Today’s economics: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:uto:dipeco:202215>
By: Ambrosino, Angela
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ambrosino,%20Angela>;
Cedrini,
Mario
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Cedrini,%20Mario>; B.
Davis, John
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=B.%20Davis,%20John>
(University
of Turin)
Abstract: The paper employs the sense and structure of a famous novel by
the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
(Uno, nessuno e centomila), of 1926, to reflect upon the recent past,
current status, and possible future appearance of economics. From an
open/closed system perspective, the paper explores economics in relation to
other social science disciplines in the epoch of economics imperialism
(“One”), and then the potential identity crisis (similar to the one
experienced by the novel’s protagonist) occurring to economics during a
prolonged phase of reverse imperialisms by other social sciences (“No
one”). Finally, the article provides elements to imagine a possible future
of pluralism (“One Hundred Thousand”) for the discipline.
Date: 2022–09
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:uto:dipeco:202215&r=
4. Material conditions and ideas in global history
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:108918>
By: Motadel, David
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Motadel,%20David>;
Drayton,
Richard
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Drayton,%20Richard>
Abstract: Since the rise of a “scientific” historiography in the
nineteenth century, the role of ideas in history versus that of material
forces has been a key philosophical problem. Thomas Piketty's Capital and
Ideology (2019), read as a work of global history, offers a provocative
rehearsal of this question. On the one hand, the book is an attempt to
provide a narrative historical frame for the hard data of the World
Inequality Database. On the other, paradoxically, it offers a defiant
conclusion that ideology is, or at least could be, the key driver in social
and institutional change towards universal progress. St Simon, Comte and
Spencer have found their twenty‐first century heir. How can we historicize
Piketty's impetus, both understanding its provenance and making sense of
its limitations? One key issue is its roots in the traditions of National
Accounts, which leads to an approach to the global which is stresses
comparison over connection, and to an uncritical reproduction of the
portrait of an egalitarian non‐capitalist Twentieth century painted by
Kuznets during the Cold War. Another is its presentism, with the historical
argument driven by an attempt to understand the c.1980–2020 conjuncture and
its alternatives, and a connected overdependence on the support of a few
historians. A third, a consequence in part of the inequalities between the
quality of data we have for different parts of the world, and of Piketty's
provenance and imagined audience, is a Eurocentric, even Gallocentric
approach. A fourth is a very French republican refusal to address how class
is complicated by identities of race and nation so that neither egalitarian
policies nor ideologies provide remedies for the populist politics of
right. None of these criticisms are in contradiction with our view that
Capital and Ideology is a work of social theory of world historical
importance.
Keywords: economic history; global history; inequality; intellectual
history; social history
JEL: N0 <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=N0>
Date: 2021
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:108918&r=
5. The Analysis of Inequality in the Bretton Woods Institutions
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10149>
By: Ferreira,Francisco H. G.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ferreira,Francisco%20H.%20G.>
Abstract: This paper assesses the evolution of thinking, analysis, and
discourse about inequality in theWorld Bank and the International Monetary
Fund since their inception in 1944, on the basis of bibliometric analysis,
areading of the literature, and personal experience. Whereas the Fund was
largely unconcerned with economic inequalityuntil the 2000s but has shown a
rapidly growing interest since then, the Bank’s approach has been
characterized byebbs and flows, with five phases being apparent. The degree
of interest in inequality in the two institutions appears tobe largely
determined by the prevailing intellectual profile of the topic in academic
research, particularly ineconomics, and by ideological shifts in major
shareholder countries, propagated downward internally by seniormanagement.
Data availability, albeit partly endogenous, also plays a role. Looking
ahead, World Bank andInternational Monetary Fund researchers continue to
have an important role to play, despite a much more crowded field
ininequality research. The paper suggests that this role involves holding
firm to an emphasis on inequality “at thebottom” and highlighting four
themes that may deserve special attention.
Date: 2022–08–22
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10149&r=
6. To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth
Theory <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1441>
By: Henrekson, Magnus
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Henrekson,%20Magnus>
(Research
Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)); Johansson, Dan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Johansson,%20Dan> (Örebro
University School of Business); Karlsson, Johan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Karlsson,%20Johan>
(Centre
for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO))
Abstract: Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990,
identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning,
we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the
entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the entrepreneurless
framework of Schumpeter (1942). The literature leans heavily towards
Schumpeter (1942); innovation returns are modeled as following an ex ante
known probability distribution. By assuming that innovation outcomes are
(probabilistically) deterministic, the entrepreneur becomes redundant.
Abstracting from genuine uncertainty implies that central issues regarding
the economic function of the entrepreneur are overlooked, such as the roles
of proprietary resources, skills, and profits.
Keywords: Creative destruction; Economic growth; Entrepreneur;
Innovation; Judgment; Knightian uncertainty
JEL: B40 O10 O30
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B40%20O10%20O30>
Date: 2022–10–01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1441&r=
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