Episode Fifty One

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 Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org