What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?
A historian s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy I generally try to stay away from the Economics More
The Undercover Historian
Beatrice Cherrier's blog
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Beyond Profit Maximization: How Economists Studied Corporate Social Responsibility in the 1950s-1970s
Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 2 In my first post, I examined existing research on the context, meaning and More
What is the social responsibility of business: from Friedman’s ideas to “the Friedman doctrine”
Histories of Corporate Social Responsibility, part 1 Part 2 is now live Stop blaming Milton Friedman? This post belongs to More
How the new classical revolution came to France: a short story
It’s a long week, itself nested in an endless stream of harrowing news. So here is a fun story of More
S1E10: “The consensus unraveled”: epilogue
This post is reposted from substack. It is part of a series on the history of how economists model the future More
S1E9. “The paper is based on a prescriptive rather that descriptive view of political economy” : one equation, two approaches
This post is reposted from substack. It is part of a series on the history of how economists model the future More
S1E8: “By popular demand”: the Ramsey formula for discounting comes to IPCC
This post is reposted from substack. It is part of a series on the history of how economists model the future More
S1E7: Not “operational” : a consensus without the Ramsey formula
This post is reposted from substack. It is part of a series on the history of how economists model the future More
S1E6: “Ramsey does not believe in a time-discount rate bigger than zero; that makes three of us”: ethics strikes back
This post is reposted from substack. It is part of a series on the history of how economists model the future More
S1E5: “Proof for a case where discounting advances the doomsday”
Discounting in 1970s energy models This post is reposted from substack. It is part of a series on the history of More