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View article: “On a mission”: planning an economy with mutable mobiles
“On a mission”: planning an economy with mutable mobiles Open
When newly independent states in Africa set out to make their own economies in the 1960s, they did so under the label of “planning,” a generic term denoting economic policy-making to create the economic future. This planning was guided by …
View article: Narrative and models
Narrative and models Open
Models and narratives are often found together in the sciences, not always, but more often than one might expect, and where they come together, they generally function as 'good companions'. Two main forms of collaboration are outlined. In …
View article: Insider apology for microeconomic theorising?
Insider apology for microeconomic theorising? Open
This comment on 'Economic theories and their Dueling interpretations' questions the descriptive adequacy of the 'sociology of economics' proposed by Gilboa, Postlewaite, Samuelson, and Schmeidler (GPSS) (2022). We ask whether economists st…
View article: Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making
Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making Open
Observing business cycles' is a figurative expression.What we actually see are tables of figures or charts that purport to show in standardized symbols one among several species of changes found in time series, which are themselves bleak n…
View article: PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Narrative in Economics: A New Turn on the Past
Narrative in Economics: A New Turn on the Past Open
Narratives have drawn increasing attention from economists and from historians and philosophers of science. Yet little of that attention has made it into the history of economics itself. This essay reviews some of the salient literature on…
View article: Narrative: A General-Purpose Technology for Science
Narrative: A General-Purpose Technology for Science Open
Narrative is ubiquitous in the sciences. Whilst it might be hidden, evident only from its traces, it can be found regularly in scientists’ accounts of their research, and of the natural, human and social worlds they study. Investigating th…
View article: Preface and Acknowledgements
Preface and Acknowledgements Open
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View article: Narrative Science
Narrative Science Open
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrat…
View article: PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: PSA volume 87 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 87 issue 4 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: ‘If <i>p</i>? Then What?’ Thinking within, with, and from cases
‘If <i>p</i>? Then What?’ Thinking within, with, and from cases Open
The provocative paper by John Forrester ‘If p, Then What? Thinking in Cases’ (1996) opened up the question of case thinking as a separate mode of reasoning in the sciences. Case-based reasoning is certainly endemic across a number of scien…
View article: The Datum in Context: Measuring Frameworks, Data Series and the Journeys of Individual Datums
The Datum in Context: Measuring Frameworks, Data Series and the Journeys of Individual Datums Open
Studying a social whole such as a city, an economy, or a society, requires the construction of ‘group data sets’ where the group is made up of a number of individual data series, each one in turn made up of a string of individual data poin…
View article: Recovering Tinbergen
Recovering Tinbergen Open
From the long viewpoint of history of economics, the two most important contributions that Jan Tinbergen made to economics are surely the development of the first macro-econometric model and a general theory of economic policy-making. This…
View article: Deidealization: No Easy Reversals
Deidealization: No Easy Reversals Open
Deidealization as a topic in its own right has attracted remarkably little philosophical interest despite the extensive literature on idealization. One reason for this is the often implicit assumption that idealization and deidealization a…
View article: Exemplification and the use-values of cases and case studies
Exemplification and the use-values of cases and case studies Open
This paper provides an account of the 'use-value' of case-based research by showing how social scientists exploit cases, and case studies, in a variety of practices of inference and extension. The critical basis for making such extensions …
View article: Measuring Development—from the UN’s Perspective
Measuring Development—from the UN’s Perspective Open
Recipes for creating development have changed radically since the international community first thought to intervene in such historical processes soon after WWII. During this time, views about how to measure development have also changed d…
View article: Narrative ordering and explanation
Narrative ordering and explanation Open
This paper investigates the important role of narrative in social science case-based research. The focus is on the use of narrative in creating a productive ordering of the materials within such cases, and on how such ordering functions in…