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Think like an economist

Catherine Sophia Herfeld (Zurich): Between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules, and the Behavioral Sciences: The Emergence of Rational Choice Theories in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s; and From Theories of Human Behavior to Rules of Rational Choice: Tracing a Normative Turn at the Cowles Commission, 1943-1954. Dorian Jullien and Nicolas Vallois (UPJV): Estimating Rationality in Economics: A History of Statistical Methods in Experimental Economics. How New Keynesian Economics betrays Keynes. Keynesian economics is hot again. Noah Smith on how so many critics of economics miss what it gets right. Esther Duflo (MIT): The Economist as Plumber. How to think like an economist (if, that is, you wish to).