(2) Dynare is a digital commons, and Juillard's career offers lessons in what it takes to sustain one: the diverse skills of an economist, modeler, coder, fundraiser, and community manager, all combined in a single sustained effort

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...computational economists like Juillard have been largely absent from the stories macros—and econs generally—tell themselves about their past. So this is a step towards a richer & fact-based history of macro that covers diversity of models, practices, skills, sites, intellectual & social goals

1) Building theoretical models w/ rational expectations & frictions was necessary but far from sufficient for macro-modeling shift academia & central banks since 1970s. Equally essential was the work of building, maintaining, and circulating the algorithms and software to solve such models. Yet....

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The book is a intellectual history of global development through the biographies and ideas of six South Asian economists, all members of the Cambridge Apostles secret society at a point 2/

Nice. It must have been very exciting times

We of course know all this (and there's a beautiful paper by Till Duppe on the history of the CORE www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...). The first post mentions Leuven because this is where the archives we're using here are located

1995: the European Economic Association is growing, but it's not growing fast enough

"I thought we would reach a membership of 2000 [but] the membership has been more or less stable around 1700...by the year 2000, we should be 5000!" (Louis Phlips)

There was also the question of those common European topics, to assemble session for the inaugural 1986 meeting, in Vienna: migration, unemployment, competition, trade, stagflation, socialist economies?

...this state of affairs requires the development of an appropriate and original approach...the methodology used by European economists has become much more unified...research topics have become closer..."

hoooo, I had no idea! What a co-authorship