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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 5h

Why Alex Rosenberg can't get any better... and why I need to read him anyway
direct.mit.edu/books/book/5...

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

This

Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

#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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

a section on Jensen here #historyoffinance
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

"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 · 7d

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 · 7d

(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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 9d

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

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 9d

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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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 9d

[These course] motivate students to read diverse literature in economics and across disciplines, helping develop those delicate intellectual connections informing and supporting the versatility of our profession.

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 9d

"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."

Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan @avgevork.bsky.social · 14d

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...

The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.

proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 10d

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 12d

My office bookshelves

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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 14d

absolutely fascinating - Pamela McCorduck interviews Herbert Simon in 1974, history of #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkO...

Author Pamela McCorduck Interviews Herb Simon

YouTube video by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 15d

Edoardo Peruzzi on the history of 'competition' #historyofmicro

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Competition

The development of the concept of competition, from a behavioral process of rivalry to the abstract model of perfect competition, is traced in this entry from b

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 18d

One of the founders of the history of capitalism, seems to be foundational

www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...

Capitalism

No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 19d

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.

Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context

by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 20d

will do that too, soon... crazy times

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