Thread by @CleoCZ

Last issue of #oeconomia is out!

Economics as a Public Science
Part 1: The Economist’s Ethos and Modes of Persuasion

Edited by Harro Maas, Steven Medema & @melguidi
-- > bit.ly/2qZOR9P

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The issue is a result of a conference on “Economics and Public Reason” hosted by the Centre Walras-Pareto in May 2018.

Contributors to the first part include @aalvarezgallo @JimenaHurtado @AGoutsmedt @danielle_guizzo @cescoeco @Undercoverhist @TN_Kayzel

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In the short intro, Maas, Medema and Guidi emphasize the need to conceive production of knowledge in economics in relation to its publics --> bit.ly/2JA0jz0 3/10

First paper by @aalvarezgallo Andrés Guiot-Isaac & @JimenaHurtado is a comparison of Lauchlin Currie's and Albert O. Hirschman's conceptions of development in relation to their practices as foreign experts --> bit.ly/2JxO724 4/10

Nahid Aslanbeigui & Guy Oakes reflect on Pigou's conception of the responsibility of the economist towards the public --> bit.ly/321nhpj 5/10

In the third paper, Marianne Johnson describes how Wisconsin Institutionalism produced a "public science" (conducted amongs the public as well as aiming at educating the public) by using specific methods --> bit.ly/2r0gWOh 6/10

In *An Agenda without a Plan*, @AGoutsmedt @danielle_guizzo & @cescoeco explores Robert E. Lucas’s policy agenda and his engagement with the public debate between the 1970s and early 1980s --> bit.ly/2PDt5Tz 7/10

@AGoutsmedt @danielle_guizzo @cescoeco Analysing the role of Heller's memos in policy, @Undercoverhist's contribution shows *how crucial documenting seemingly anecdotal aspects of economists’ work is to understand the scope and nature of their influence on public reason* --> bit.ly/2PvjwWA 8/10

@AGoutsmedt @danielle_guizzo @cescoeco @Undercoverhist Next paper is by @TN_Kayzel --> bit.ly/2JyCK9O See this tweet 👇👇👇

https://twitter.com/Undercoverhist/status/1186757829081944064?s=20

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@AGoutsmedt @danielle_guizzo @cescoeco @Undercoverhist @TN_Kayzel Last paper of Part 1 is by Thomas Vanoutrive et P.W. Zuidhof on the consitution of a field of Port Economics in relation to its various audiences --> bit.ly/2BV7rlt 10/10

@AGoutsmedt @danielle_guizzo @cescoeco @Undercoverhist @TN_Kayzel Bonus track: teaser for Part 2 #hardcoremacro cc @jcaacostamacia @Pinzon_Fuchs

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