Laetitia Lenel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laetitia Lenel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laetitia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lenel |
| SIGNATURE | LENEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8597-2647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Survivor Testimonies and the Problem of Time
Testimonies of Holocaust survivors have had an essential influence on public engagement with the Shoah in recent decades. Given this importance, the imminent end of the “era of the witness” has sparked fears that the history of the Holocaust could soon be forgotten. The past decades have therefore seen unprecedented efforts to record the testimonies of Holocaust survivors in order to safeguard the immediacy of their accounts. In this essay, I tra…
The Introduction of the Electronic Computer and the End of Business Forecasting at the NBER
For the greater part of the twentieth century, business forecasting has been a struggle against time. Forecasters needed reliable, comprehensive, and up-to-date data that would allow them to extrapolate trends for the months ahead. The collection and analysis of economic data, however, were laborious processes, and became even more so as the mass of statistical data grew. Focusing on the history of business cycle research conducted at the Nationa…
Economists as Storytellers: Scenario Drafting at the International Monetary Fund
This article explores the history of scenario drafting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the 1970s and 1980s. Introduced in the late 1970s, scenarios were used to compare, assess, and illustrate the assumed effects of different policy actions or inactions. They provided alternative versions of a hypothetical future, derived from the research staff's narrative reasoning by which the IMF researchers stitched together qualitative and quant…
Searching for a Tide Table for Business
The article investigates the methods and conceptions of statistical inference used in business forecasting in the United States and in Europe in the 1920s. After presenting the methods and arguments used by the members of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research in the first years after its establishment in 1919, the article explores the far-reaching changes in method and conviction from 1922 on. The members' realization that the future evolved…
Mapping the Future
The recognition of the key importance of economic stability after World War I sparked interest in business forecasting on both sides of the Atlantic. This article explores the creation and the rapid international and domestic dissemination of the Harvard Index of General Business Conditions in the early 1920s, which contemporaries celebrated as the first “scientific” approach to business forecasting. Drawing on multi-site archival research, the p…
Regierungsunternehmer. Henry J. Kaiser, Friedrich Flick und die Staatskonjunkturen in den USA und Deutschland
In November 1961, during the 150-years anniversary of the Krupp Group, Theodor Heuss defended German entrepreneurs who had employed forced labourers during World War II. As the former president declared, a businessman like Alfred Krupp had done the same as ‘the proxy and design office at Schneider-Creusot, at Skoda, at Vickers-Armstrongs, at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation’ during the war. Schanetzky takes this Persilschein as a starting point to…
Searching for a Tide Table for Business
The article investigates the methods and conceptions of statistical inference used in business forecasting in the United States and in Europe in the 1920s. After presenting the methods and arguments used by the members of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research in the first years after its establishment in 1919, the article explores the far-reaching changes in method and conviction from 1922 on. The members' realization that the future evolved…
Economists as Storytellers: Scenario Drafting at the International Monetary Fund
This article explores the history of scenario drafting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the 1970s and 1980s. Introduced in the late 1970s, scenarios were used to compare, assess, and illustrate the assumed effects of different policy actions or inactions. They provided alternative versions of a hypothetical future, derived from the research staff's narrative reasoning by which the IMF researchers stitched together qualitative and quant…
Regierungsunternehmer. Henry J. Kaiser, Friedrich Flick und die Staatskonjunkturen in den USA und Deutschland
In November 1961, during the 150-years anniversary of the Krupp Group, Theodor Heuss defended German entrepreneurs who had employed forced labourers during World War II. As the former president declared, a businessman like Alfred Krupp had done the same as ‘the proxy and design office at Schneider-Creusot, at Skoda, at Vickers-Armstrongs, at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation’ during the war. Schanetzky takes this Persilschein as a starting point to…
Mapping the Future
The recognition of the key importance of economic stability after World War I sparked interest in business forecasting on both sides of the Atlantic. This article explores the creation and the rapid international and domestic dissemination of the Harvard Index of General Business Conditions in the early 1920s, which contemporaries celebrated as the first “scientific” approach to business forecasting. Drawing on multi-site archival research, the p…
Searching for a Tide Table for Business
The article investigates the methods and conceptions of statistical inference used in business forecasting in the United States and in Europe in the 1920s. After presenting the methods and arguments used by the members of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research in the first years after its establishment in 1919, the article explores the far-reaching changes in method and conviction from 1922 on. The members' realization that the future evolved…
Survivor Testimonies and the Problem of Time
Testimonies of Holocaust survivors have had an essential influence on public engagement with the Shoah in recent decades. Given this importance, the imminent end of the “era of the witness” has sparked fears that the history of the Holocaust could soon be forgotten. The past decades have therefore seen unprecedented efforts to record the testimonies of Holocaust survivors in order to safeguard the immediacy of their accounts. In this essay, I tra…
The Introduction of the Electronic Computer and the End of Business Forecasting at the NBER
For the greater part of the twentieth century, business forecasting has been a struggle against time. Forecasters needed reliable, comprehensive, and up-to-date data that would allow them to extrapolate trends for the months ahead. The collection and analysis of economic data, however, were laborious processes, and became even more so as the mass of statistical data grew. Focusing on the history of business cycle research conducted at the Nationa…
Economists as Storytellers: Scenario Drafting at the International Monetary Fund
This article explores the history of scenario drafting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the 1970s and 1980s. Introduced in the late 1970s, scenarios were used to compare, assess, and illustrate the assumed effects of different policy actions or inactions. They provided alternative versions of a hypothetical future, derived from the research staff's narrative reasoning by which the IMF researchers stitched together qualitative and quant…
Economics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works)