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- Title
Introduction: From "Economics as Engineering" to "Economics and Engineering".
- Authors
Garcia Duarte, Pedro; Giraud, Yann
- Abstract
Economists such as Alvin Roth and Esther Duflo have recently argued that economics in the late twentieth century has evolved from (social) science to engineering. On the other hand, historians such as Mary Morgan and Michel Armatte have argued that the transformation of economics into an engineering science has been a century-long development. Turning away from the "economics as engineering" analogy, our introduction suggests an alternative approach to account for the presumed transformation of economics into an engineering science. We encourage the development of a history of "economics and engineering," which depicts how these two types of knowledge--and the communities who produce them--have interacted in various institutional and national contexts. Drawing on the contributions to this 2020 annual supplement of HOPE, we show how these narratives may help change the historiography of twentieth-century economics.
- Subjects
SYSTEMS theory; HISTORY of economics -- 20th century; ENGINEERING -- Economic aspects; ROTH, Alvin E., 1951-; ANALOGY
- Publication
History of Political Economy, 2020, Vol 52, Issue S1, p10
- ISSN
0018-2702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00182702-8717898