Andrej Svorenčík
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrej Svorenčík |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrej |
| FAMILY NAME | Svorenčík |
| SIGNATURE | SVORENČÍK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5716-946X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Networks of Historians of Economics: Fifty Years of History of Economics Society Conferences
The History of Economics Society (HES) is neither the oldest nor the largest academic society of historians of economic thought. 1 However, no one would deny—certainly not when celebrating its fiftieth anniversary—the vital role the HES has had in establishing and shaping the field of history of economics. The goal of this paper is to go beyond mere favorable impressions to an evidence-based history grounded in analyzing the attendees of the expl…
The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories: Material Culture and Moral Economy
The emergence of experimental economics laboratories is tied to adopting computers as key instruments for conducting experimental research in economics. Various ways in which computer technology as a new form of material culture in experimental economics changed the practice of economics experimentation are examined. First, competing technologies for connecting computers and experimental subjects sitting behind them were used by two leading figur…
A prosopography of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Since its formal establishment in 1996, the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) has organised 23 annual conferences. Participation data gathered from various sources reveals 1777 unique participants. In order to study their regular engagement with ESHET, we focus only on a group of 476 scholars who attended at least three conferences. We collect available biographic data on this smaller group of regular attendees and anal…
Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal
Before the John Bates Clark Medal (JBCM) had become a widely acknowledged professional and public marker of excellence in economics research, in the first twenty years since its inception more than seventy years ago in 1947, it was almost discontinued three times and once even not conferred. These controversies derived from the fact that the medal was originally established to showcase the expertise of economists to other scientists, policy-maker…
The Driving Forces Behind the Rise of Experimental Economics
This paper analyzes key motives and pivotal experiences—which I label driving forces—that turned non-experimental economists into early pioneers of experimental economics and kick-started a continuous style of experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s.The first driving force, integrity—the augmentation of what types of data are available to economists by introducing experimental data and advocating its advantages—is illustrated by the story of James…
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)
When Henry Macomber published his census of owners of the first edition of the Principia in 1953, he believed the edition to be small, 'perhaps not more than 250 copies', an estimate that still enjoys currency. Lower estimates of the size of the first edition of the Principia were based partly on assessments regarding an inhospitable market for highly technical mathematical books, and partly on the presumption that the vaunted incomprehensibility…
The Missing Link
Prosopography, or less accurately collective biography, is a historiographical method that identifies and draws relationships between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing relevant biographical data. Although it is a well-established method, it is novel to the history of economics. In this paper I argue that prosopography provides an interpretative framework for understanding acade…
Fraught with Controversy: Organizing Expertise against Contingent Valuation
This paper examines consulting and expert work performed by (experimental) economists for the Exxon Valdez litigation case. One of the issues at stake was the use of a specific method, contingent valuation, to estimate the so-called passive use value part of the damage resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 24, 1989. Our interest is less in the possibilities of using contingent valuation to estimate passive use values as such, and mor…
Allocating Airport Slots
The aviation industry changed dramatically in the wake of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. My paper looks at an element of this transformation—the policy according to which take-off and landing slots were allocated at congested airports including a proposal to change this policy—an issue that affected millions of passengers annually. Caltech economists and experimentalists David Grether, Mark Isaac, and Charles Plott were hired by the Civil …
The Sidney Siegel Tradition: The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s
Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could open a line of inquiry on the growing body of behavioral "anomalies" and their robustness in a market setting proved naive. The divide between both camps was too big to b…
Mit's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography
The core question of the MIT economics department's history-why has MIT economics risen to prominence so quickly?-requires an approach to the history of economics that focuses on the role of the networks within which economists operate and how their ideas diffuse and gain scientific credit. By reconstructing the network of MIT economics PhDs and their advisers, this article furnishes evidence of how MIT rose to prominence as documented by the num…
Mit's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography
The core question of the MIT economics department's history-why has MIT economics risen to prominence so quickly?-requires an approach to the history of economics that focuses on the role of the networks within which economists operate and how their ideas diffuse and gain scientific credit. By reconstructing the network of MIT economics PhDs and their advisers, this article furnishes evidence of how MIT rose to prominence as documented by the num…
Fraught with Controversy: Organizing Expertise against Contingent Valuation
This paper examines consulting and expert work performed by (experimental) economists for the Exxon Valdez litigation case. One of the issues at stake was the use of a specific method, contingent valuation, to estimate the so-called passive use value part of the damage resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 24, 1989. Our interest is less in the possibilities of using contingent valuation to estimate passive use values as such, and mor…
Allocating Airport Slots
The aviation industry changed dramatically in the wake of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. My paper looks at an element of this transformation—the policy according to which take-off and landing slots were allocated at congested airports including a proposal to change this policy—an issue that affected millions of passengers annually. Caltech economists and experimentalists David Grether, Mark Isaac, and Charles Plott were hired by the Civil …
The Missing Link
Prosopography, or less accurately collective biography, is a historiographical method that identifies and draws relationships between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing relevant biographical data. Although it is a well-established method, it is novel to the history of economics. In this paper I argue that prosopography provides an interpretative framework for understanding acade…
The Sidney Siegel Tradition: The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s
Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could open a line of inquiry on the growing body of behavioral "anomalies" and their robustness in a market setting proved naive. The divide between both camps was too big to b…
The Driving Forces Behind the Rise of Experimental Economics
This paper analyzes key motives and pivotal experiences—which I label driving forces—that turned non-experimental economists into early pioneers of experimental economics and kick-started a continuous style of experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s.The first driving force, integrity—the augmentation of what types of data are available to economists by introducing experimental data and advocating its advantages—is illustrated by the story of James…
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)
When Henry Macomber published his census of owners of the first edition of the Principia in 1953, he believed the edition to be small, 'perhaps not more than 250 copies', an estimate that still enjoys currency. Lower estimates of the size of the first edition of the Principia were based partly on assessments regarding an inhospitable market for highly technical mathematical books, and partly on the presumption that the vaunted incomprehensibility…
Mit's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography
The core question of the MIT economics department's history-why has MIT economics risen to prominence so quickly?-requires an approach to the history of economics that focuses on the role of the networks within which economists operate and how their ideas diffuse and gain scientific credit. By reconstructing the network of MIT economics PhDs and their advisers, this article furnishes evidence of how MIT rose to prominence as documented by the num…
The Sidney Siegel Tradition: The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s
Over two days in February 1988, several key experimental economists and cognitive psychologists met to explore the possibilities of joint research promoted by the Sloan and Russell Sage Foundations under the rubric behavioral economics. The original vision that the meeting could open a line of inquiry on the growing body of behavioral "anomalies" and their robustness in a market setting proved naive. The divide between both camps was too big to b…
Fraught with Controversy: Organizing Expertise against Contingent Valuation
This paper examines consulting and expert work performed by (experimental) economists for the Exxon Valdez litigation case. One of the issues at stake was the use of a specific method, contingent valuation, to estimate the so-called passive use value part of the damage resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill of March 24, 1989. Our interest is less in the possibilities of using contingent valuation to estimate passive use values as such, and mor…
Allocating Airport Slots
The aviation industry changed dramatically in the wake of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. My paper looks at an element of this transformation—the policy according to which take-off and landing slots were allocated at congested airports including a proposal to change this policy—an issue that affected millions of passengers annually. Caltech economists and experimentalists David Grether, Mark Isaac, and Charles Plott were hired by the Civil …
The Missing Link
Prosopography, or less accurately collective biography, is a historiographical method that identifies and draws relationships between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing relevant biographical data. Although it is a well-established method, it is novel to the history of economics. In this paper I argue that prosopography provides an interpretative framework for understanding acade…
Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal
Before the John Bates Clark Medal (JBCM) had become a widely acknowledged professional and public marker of excellence in economics research, in the first twenty years since its inception more than seventy years ago in 1947, it was almost discontinued three times and once even not conferred. These controversies derived from the fact that the medal was originally established to showcase the expertise of economists to other scientists, policy-maker…
The Driving Forces Behind the Rise of Experimental Economics
This paper analyzes key motives and pivotal experiences—which I label driving forces—that turned non-experimental economists into early pioneers of experimental economics and kick-started a continuous style of experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s.The first driving force, integrity—the augmentation of what types of data are available to economists by introducing experimental data and advocating its advantages—is illustrated by the story of James…
A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687)
When Henry Macomber published his census of owners of the first edition of the Principia in 1953, he believed the edition to be small, 'perhaps not more than 250 copies', an estimate that still enjoys currency. Lower estimates of the size of the first edition of the Principia were based partly on assessments regarding an inhospitable market for highly technical mathematical books, and partly on the presumption that the vaunted incomprehensibility…
A prosopography of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Since its formal establishment in 1996, the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) has organised 23 annual conferences. Participation data gathered from various sources reveals 1777 unique participants. In order to study their regular engagement with ESHET, we focus only on a group of 476 scholars who attended at least three conferences. We collect available biographic data on this smaller group of regular attendees and anal…
The Role of Computers in the Emergence of Experimental Economics Laboratories: Material Culture and Moral Economy
The emergence of experimental economics laboratories is tied to adopting computers as key instruments for conducting experimental research in economics. Various ways in which computer technology as a new form of material culture in experimental economics changed the practice of economics experimentation are examined. First, competing technologies for connecting computers and experimental subjects sitting behind them were used by two leading figur…
Networks of Historians of Economics: Fifty Years of History of Economics Society Conferences
The History of Economics Society (HES) is neither the oldest nor the largest academic society of historians of economic thought. 1 However, no one would deny—certainly not when celebrating its fiftieth anniversary—the vital role the HES has had in establishing and shaping the field of history of economics. The goal of this paper is to go beyond mere favorable impressions to an evidence-based history grounded in analyzing the attendees of the expl…
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