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- Title
Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission's Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949.
- Authors
Düppe, Till; Weintraub, E. Roy
- Abstract
In the decades following World War II, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics came to represent new technical standards that informed most advances in economic theory. The public emergence of this community was manifest at a conference held in June 1949 titled Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation. New ideas in optimization theory, linked to linear programming, developed from the conference's papers. The authors’ history of this event situates the Cowles Commission among the institutions of postwar science in-between National Laboratories and the supreme discipline of Cold War academia, mathematics. Although the conference created the conditions under which economics, as a discipline, would transform itself, the participants themselves had little concern for the intellectual battles that had defined prewar university economics departments. The authors argue that the conference signaled the birth of a new intellectual culture in economic science based on shared scientific norms and techniques un-interrogated by conflicting notions of the meaning of either science or economics.
- Subjects
COWLES Commission for Research in Economics; ECONOMIC models; MATHEMATICAL models; ECONOMICS conferences; KOOPMANS, Tjalling Charles, 1910-1985; CHICAGO school of economics; MATHEMATICAL programming; TWENTIETH century; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Science in Context (0269-8897), 2014, Vol 27, Issue 3, p453
- ISSN
0269-8897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0269889714000143