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1/ In the wake of the NYT article on Robinson, I got emails asking how to feminize history of econ reads & teaching. I didn’t find any online reference list

1/ In 1938 as in 2018, trade wars, tariffs and mercantilism were hot topics. That year, Bryn Mawr economist Karl Anderson published a blistering critique of Australian econs’ attempts to

1/ This quote is a 1963 collective statement by 18 economists concluding a week-length discussion of econometrics in Vatican at the request of the Pontifical Academy Science, a story told

On December 6 1916, the evening before his examination on the theory of heat, Kiev polytechnical institute student Jacob Marschak was thrown in jailHe was 18(I don’t know if the

1/There’s this economist few remember, who wrote the 1st 2-sectors growth model, brought Pontryagin to econ, played rugby w/ Inada, argue over Marxism & Keynes w/ Solow & Kahn, rediscovered

Seems important for econs (& everyone, in fact) to follow historians of medicine/epidemiology, if only to learn lessons from history of econ & epi side by side. So here's a