Episode Fifty One

<p>Jenn, Çınla, and Scott discuss a number of recent additions to the literature in history of economic thought and methodology. </p> <p>If you are interested in reading the papers discussed in this episode, here they are (unfortunately, some may be behind paywalls):</p> <p><strong>Searching for a Tide Table for Business: Interwar Conceptions of Statistical Inference in Business Forecasting</strong></p> <p><strong>Laetitia Lenel</strong></p> <p><em>History of Political Economy</em> (2021) 53 (S1): 139–174</p> <p><a href= "https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/53/S1/139/175168/Searching-for-a-Tide-Table-for-BusinessInterwar"> https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/53/S1/139/175168/Searching-for-a-Tide-Table-for-BusinessInterwar</a></p> <p><strong>Behavioural Insights Teams (BITs) and policy change: An exploration of impact, location, and temporality of policy advice</strong></p> <p><strong>Ishani Mukherjee and Sarah Geist </strong></p> <p><em>Administration and Society</em>, 52(10), 1538-1561</p> <p><a href= "https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095399720918315">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095399720918315</a></p> <p><strong>Knowledge, behaviour, and policy: questioning the epistemic presuppositions of applying behavioural science in public policymaking</strong></p> <p><strong>Magdalena Małecka</strong></p> <p><em>Synthese,</em> Volume 199, 5311–5338</p> <p><a href= "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03026-6">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-021-03026-6</a></p> <p><em>Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar</em> is supported by a grant from the History of Economics Society: <a href= "http://historyofeconomics.org">http://historyofeconomics.org</a></p>