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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 2h

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

Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Cool conference on post-structuralist approaches to the economic

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

PRESENTATION

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4d

"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 · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 4d

(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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

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

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 6d

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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 · 6d

[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 · 6d

"[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 · 11d

"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 · 7d

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 9d

My office bookshelves

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Samuli Reijula @samulireijula.net · 11d

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 · 12d

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 · 15d

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

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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 · 16d

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 · 17d

will do that too, soon... crazy times

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 17d

The WP is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Philosophy of Economics/Economic Methodology in the Economics Curriculum

In this chapter, I reflect on my experiences in teaching the Economic Methodology course over several years in the Economics Bachelor's program. The chapter beg

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 17d

My pedagogy piece (ending with Kafka btw) is officially out, we’ve just had a lively discussion of the book and the project in Bayreuth
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 18d

Bravo, @dgindis.bsky.social and Cecilia Lanata-Briones!
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The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) met at Warwick

The School of Law and the Department of Economics hosted the 55th Annual THETS Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2025. Annual meetings have been held since 1968, making THETS one of the oldest established...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 22d

His previous book on Rimbaud was fine

Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 22d

Robert St. Clair, Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert - Oxford University Press, July 2025
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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 22d

Venice was fantastic, even too intensive at times. New people, incredibly smart and insightful, a vibrant, ironic, beautiful collective intelligence. Off to the next conference (and almost final for this year) -- INEM meeting at Bayreuth.
www.phil.uni-bayreuth.de/en/events/Wo...

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · 22d

Bravo! (I learned a lot from Dorfman's history of linear optimization when writing on Kantorovich)

Center for the History of Political Economy @hopecenter.bsky.social · 22d

Working Paper: The Virtues of Clarity: Robert Dorfman, from Mathematical Programming to Environmental Economics by @juliengradoz.bsky.social @ssrn.bsky.social #econhist

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23d

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

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