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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 1d

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 23h

a lot of interesting stuff for historians to explore here

Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 1d

What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt

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Nye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · 1d

Main thing I took from Best of econtwitter today is that the whole of US economics still seems to be on twitter. Which is a shame

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

Roger Backhouse had a paper on that

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Maria Bach @mariabach.bsky.social · 2d

You can now follow the podcast on Bluesky: @ceterisnparibus.bsky.social

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

Still worth a read www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The new growth theory: some intellectual growth accounting: Journal of Economic Methodology: Vol 5 , No 2 - Get Access

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

… and one Nobelist more in this book now

Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

Freely available, classic and new papers on institutionalism, by Nobel prize winners, but also many bright minds working right now, including my Radboud colleague Robbert Maseland!
link.springer.com/referencewor...

Handbook of New Institutional Economics

This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 2d

For Peirce, that was not a problem

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Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social · 2d

Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell.

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 3d

Why Alex Rosenberg can't get any better... and why I need to read him anyway
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Blunt Instrument: Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better...Why We Need It Anyway

Why economic theory—with no track-record of predictive success—is still an indispensable tool for protecting civilized life.Economic theory has never gotte

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

Freely available, classic and new papers on institutionalism, by Nobel prize winners, but also many bright minds working right now, including my Radboud colleague Robbert Maseland!
link.springer.com/referencewor...

Handbook of New Institutional Economics

This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.

link.springer.com

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

@felixundstein.bsky.social

Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

This

Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 4d

Article: Economics in the Mirror of Anthropology: Knight, Boulding, Posner, and Akerlof in Perspective, by Véronique Dutraive
doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

you've seen this, right? www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/8...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

#observingeconomics @paulgp.com's paper on Credibility Revolution

arxiv.org/abs/2405.20604

Tracking the Credibility Revolution across Fields

This paper updates Currie, Kleven, and Zwiers (2020) by examining the credibility revolution across fields, including finance and macroeconomics, using NBER working papers up to May 2024. While the gr...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 6d

I could tell stories of navigating/publishing in economics, history, philosophy of science, and German literature journals, but I guess the audience would be confused

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, it makes the 'performance' culture of 'look how cool I am' indistinguishable from meaningful exchange of ideas

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 7d

a section on Jensen here #historyoffinance
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Journal of Financial Economics | Vol 172, October 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Journal of Financial Economics at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 8d

Shleifer was involved in corruption scandals, and there was a long debate around Fehr and Schmidt 1999 — now covered in the critical literature www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A controversy about modeling practices: the case of inequity aversion

This paper studies the controversy on Fehr and Schmidt's model of inequity aversion. It borrows insights from disciplines such as philosophy and the sociology of science that have specialized in st...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 8d

Cool conference on post-structuralist approaches to the economic

deconstruction.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...

Déconstruction de l’économie, économie et déconstruction - Sciencesconf.org

PRESENTATION

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 10d

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 10d

(I vote for Bowles, but he is unlikely to win)
The wisdom of the Nobel committee would be to combine the winners approaching the same topic from different perspectives

undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 11d

1/2 I wish I could stay away from incoming econ Nobel frenzy, but you don't always get what you want, so help me

Here is @richardtol.bsky.social's forecast (richardtol.substack.com/p/2025-nobel...) Samuelson's 1969 reflection on how many laureates should receive it jointly, and questions for you:

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 11d

Jensen passed away last year, Shleifer and Fehr are highly unlikely contenders (unless sth very unusual happens), I vote for Bowles, one of the real thinkers in the discipline

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 12d

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804685...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 12d

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Philosophy and Finance: Ten Open Questions

This volume presents ten thought-provoking essays exploring issues in the philosophy of finance that are crucial for the economy and society.

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