Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche
Biographic Data
| ID | 257328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cléo |
| FAMILY NAME | Chassonnery-Zaïgouche |
| SIGNATURE | CHASSONNERY-ZAÏGOUCHE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7996-0749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Modelling intervention: Barbara Bergmann’s micro-to-macro simulation projects
Over a period of 12 years, Barbara Bergmann developed several models of the labour market using microsimulation, eventually integrated in a “Transactions Model” of the entire US economy, built with Robert Bennett and published in 1986. The paper reconstructs the history of this modelling enterprise in the context of the debates on the micro-foundations of macroeconomics and the role of macroeconomic expertise from the 1970s to the late 1980s. It …
Economics Is Not a Man's Field: CSWEP and the First Gender Reckoning in Economics, 1971-1991
This article examines the first gender reckoning in economics, focusing on the establishment and early activities of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). Drawing on materials in the hitherto closed archives of the AEA, we explore how CSWEP's mission to improve the representation and status of women in economics was linked to how economists understood women's role in the economy. The article concludes by reflec…
Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist. How Efficiency Replace Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Elisabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist unfolds a captivating and detailed historical account of the rise of economics and economists’ influence within the US Administration during the 1960s and 1970s. This transformation played a pivotal role in reshaping American policy, Berman argues. At the core of her story is the concept of an “economic style of reasoning”, inspired by Ian Hacking’s (1994) work. Berman’s “economic style of reason…
Soline Blanchard et Sophie Pochic (dir.), Quantifier l’égalité au travail. Outils politiques et enjeux scientifiques: Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2021, 396 p
Calculer l’écart de salaire moyen entre femmes et hommes, énumérer les féminicides par an, révéler le coût de la virilité : la mise en chiffres des inégalités et de la violence liées au genre est rarement critiquée pour son réductionnisme. Cela est peut-être dû à la réaction évidente que provoquent ces mesures : ces chiffres sont trop élevés. Réduire la complexité du social pour produire une mesure synthétique est le principal avantage et la prin…
The Computerization of Economics: Three Lessons for Economics
In 1994, the Journal of Economic Perspectives published an article by William Goffe titled “Computer Network Resources for Economists”, starting with the statement: “[t]he Internet, the large and very rapidly expanding computer network, is revolutionizing research” (Goffe, 1994, 97). Goffe’s article aimed at providing the first “guide” for economists to understand the principles and mechanisms behind the functioning of the Internet, and it showca…
Contested values: Economic expertise in the comparable worth controversy, USA, 1979-1989
The comparable worth principle – a call for a general readjustment of wages according to a measure of the worth of an occupation – gained policy momentum in the United States in the early 1980s. A Supreme Court decision, multiple bills, congressional hearings as well as an arsenal of initiatives from women and labour groups all over the United States shaped the debate both as a technical as well as a political issue. At the core of the quarrel li…
Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives
This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative ab…
Margaret W. Rossiter et l’histoire des femmes scientifiques américaines
Introduction to Margareth Rossiter's life and work
Keep Calm and Cite Better: Impact Factor Pressures and Review Articles in the History of Economics
Clarivate Analytics’ suppression of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for three history of economics journals in 2018 resulted from the publication of a single review article solicited for History of Economic Ideas (HEI). That episode highlights several connections between JIF pressures on authors and editors, on the practice of writing review articles, and on the field of history of economics. We examine the different roles and proliferation of re…
Sentiment and Prejudice
This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the B…
There Is Nothing Wrong about Being Money Grubbing!" Milton Friedman's Provocative "Capitalism and the Jews" in Context, 1972-88
In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled "Capitalism and the Jews." The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Fried-man's public interventions on the theme of capitalism and the Jews from the 1960s to the 1980s. We take a different perspectives from Jeff Lipkes's recent paper on the topic, published in this journal. While Lipkes examines the internal…
How Economists Entered the ‘Numbers Game’: Measuring Discrimination in the Us Courtrooms, 1971–1989
The paper explores why and how economists entered the courtrooms as expert witnesses in employment discrimination cases in the US. The main sources are published legal decisions. I analyze the courts’ and economists’ discourses on the use of a specific method: multiple regression analysis in relation to litigation history, academic debates, and the institutional settings of expertise within the courts. I first show how the early reception of the …
Introduction to Symposium: Economists in Court
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Race in the History of Economics: The Missing Narratives
Leonard’s Illiberal Reformers was published in 2016 and provoked a large number of academic and non-academic comments—balanced analyses and historiographical discussions, vitriolic criticisms as well as outstanding praise. An unusual fate for a book on the history of economics, its discussion extended well beyond specialised journals into mainstream fora in economics and history. A symposium, massive press coverage in the US and in the UK, a ment…
La dette publique: Une histoire longue
Les crises de la dette publique rythment l’histoire des États européens depuis au moins quatre siècles. Florence au XVème siècle, la République de Hollande au XVIème siècle et les royaumes d’Angleterre et de France dès la fin du XVIIème siècle expérimentent des systèmes d’endettement massif qui inquiètent déjà les contemporains. La nouvelle crise de la dette européenne, entamée en 2010, a remis au centre des préoccupations politiques, intellectue…
From warfare to welfare: Contextualising Arrow and Schelling's models of racial inequalities (1968–1972)
This paper focuses on Arrow and Schelling's contributions to the study of racial inequality in the late 1960s. We start from the authors’ account of the origin of their work. Then, we locate the “material origin” of the models at the RAND Corporation in the late 1960s and show how it relates to the transfer of the RAND tool-box to the study of welfare issues. Finally, we describe how Arrow's and Schelling's modelling strategies relate to their co…
Kalle Lasn et Adbusters, Meme wars, the creative destruction of neoclassical economics, Penguin, 400 pages, 2012
L’ouvrage de Kalle Lasn et Adbusters est un mélange stimulant d’images, de témoignages et de textes théoriques visant à remettre en cause le monolithisme de la théorie économique. L’ouvrage, structuré en dix parties et un épilogue, est composé de multiples contributions qui ne sont pas directement articulées les unes aux autres. Nous avons choisi de les présenter en trois thèmes : la question de la régulation de la finance et le problème de la de…
L’économie des discriminations: Conquête impérialiste ou contribution à la théorie des prix
contribution à la théorie des prix ?The economics of discriminations: imperialistic conquest or contribution to price theory
L’économie des discriminations: Conquête impérialiste ou contribution à la théorie des prix
La thèse de Gary S. Becker sur la discrimination est généralement considérée comme la première occurrence d’une forme moderne d’impérialisme économique. L’objectif est de questionner la nature impérialiste de l’étude de la discrimination en économie, en utilisant Becker comme pierre angulaire du récit. D’importants débats ont eu lieu sur la question de la discrimination avant les travaux de Becker et sont centraux pour la discipline (section 1). …
Jean Gadrey, Adieu à la croissance, Bien vivre dans un monde solidaire, Co-édition Les petits matins / Alternatives Economiques, 2012 (première édition, 2010)
La nouvelle édition d’Adieu la croissance est composée, en plus des éléments de l’ancienne, d’un avant-propos de cinq pages constitué par les questions adressées aux candidats à la présidentielle, et d’une postface d’une vingtaine de pages consacrée aux questions posée à l’auteur durant les présentations de son ouvrage dans l’intervalle de temps entre les deux éditions.Cette édition s’adresse aux candidats de la présidentielle de 2012, mais n’a p…
Michel Armatte, La science économique comme ingénierie. Quantification et modélisation
Book review of Michel Armatte, La science économique comme ingénierie. Quantification et modélisation
Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives
This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative ab…
Sentiment and Prejudice
This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the B…
There Is Nothing Wrong about Being Money Grubbing!" Milton Friedman's Provocative "Capitalism and the Jews" in Context, 1972-88
In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled "Capitalism and the Jews." The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Fried-man's public interventions on the theme of capitalism and the Jews from the 1960s to the 1980s. We take a different perspectives from Jeff Lipkes's recent paper on the topic, published in this journal. While Lipkes examines the internal…
From warfare to welfare: Contextualising Arrow and Schelling's models of racial inequalities (1968–1972)
This paper focuses on Arrow and Schelling's contributions to the study of racial inequality in the late 1960s. We start from the authors’ account of the origin of their work. Then, we locate the “material origin” of the models at the RAND Corporation in the late 1960s and show how it relates to the transfer of the RAND tool-box to the study of welfare issues. Finally, we describe how Arrow's and Schelling's modelling strategies relate to their co…
Contested values: Economic expertise in the comparable worth controversy, USA, 1979-1989
The comparable worth principle – a call for a general readjustment of wages according to a measure of the worth of an occupation – gained policy momentum in the United States in the early 1980s. A Supreme Court decision, multiple bills, congressional hearings as well as an arsenal of initiatives from women and labour groups all over the United States shaped the debate both as a technical as well as a political issue. At the core of the quarrel li…
Michel Armatte, La science économique comme ingénierie. Quantification et modélisation
Book review of Michel Armatte, La science économique comme ingénierie. Quantification et modélisation
Michel Armatte, La science économique comme ingénierie. Quantification et modélisation
Book review of Michel Armatte, La science économique comme ingénierie. Quantification et modélisation
Jean Gadrey, Adieu à la croissance, Bien vivre dans un monde solidaire, Co-édition Les petits matins / Alternatives Economiques, 2012 (première édition, 2010)
La nouvelle édition d’Adieu la croissance est composée, en plus des éléments de l’ancienne, d’un avant-propos de cinq pages constitué par les questions adressées aux candidats à la présidentielle, et d’une postface d’une vingtaine de pages consacrée aux questions posée à l’auteur durant les présentations de son ouvrage dans l’intervalle de temps entre les deux éditions.Cette édition s’adresse aux candidats de la présidentielle de 2012, mais n’a p…
Kalle Lasn et Adbusters, Meme wars, the creative destruction of neoclassical economics, Penguin, 400 pages, 2012
L’ouvrage de Kalle Lasn et Adbusters est un mélange stimulant d’images, de témoignages et de textes théoriques visant à remettre en cause le monolithisme de la théorie économique. L’ouvrage, structuré en dix parties et un épilogue, est composé de multiples contributions qui ne sont pas directement articulées les unes aux autres. Nous avons choisi de les présenter en trois thèmes : la question de la régulation de la finance et le problème de la de…
L’économie des discriminations: Conquête impérialiste ou contribution à la théorie des prix
contribution à la théorie des prix ?The economics of discriminations: imperialistic conquest or contribution to price theory
L’économie des discriminations: Conquête impérialiste ou contribution à la théorie des prix
La thèse de Gary S. Becker sur la discrimination est généralement considérée comme la première occurrence d’une forme moderne d’impérialisme économique. L’objectif est de questionner la nature impérialiste de l’étude de la discrimination en économie, en utilisant Becker comme pierre angulaire du récit. D’importants débats ont eu lieu sur la question de la discrimination avant les travaux de Becker et sont centraux pour la discipline (section 1). …
From warfare to welfare: Contextualising Arrow and Schelling's models of racial inequalities (1968–1972)
This paper focuses on Arrow and Schelling's contributions to the study of racial inequality in the late 1960s. We start from the authors’ account of the origin of their work. Then, we locate the “material origin” of the models at the RAND Corporation in the late 1960s and show how it relates to the transfer of the RAND tool-box to the study of welfare issues. Finally, we describe how Arrow's and Schelling's modelling strategies relate to their co…
La dette publique: Une histoire longue
Les crises de la dette publique rythment l’histoire des États européens depuis au moins quatre siècles. Florence au XVème siècle, la République de Hollande au XVIème siècle et les royaumes d’Angleterre et de France dès la fin du XVIIème siècle expérimentent des systèmes d’endettement massif qui inquiètent déjà les contemporains. La nouvelle crise de la dette européenne, entamée en 2010, a remis au centre des préoccupations politiques, intellectue…
How Economists Entered the ‘Numbers Game’: Measuring Discrimination in the Us Courtrooms, 1971–1989
The paper explores why and how economists entered the courtrooms as expert witnesses in employment discrimination cases in the US. The main sources are published legal decisions. I analyze the courts’ and economists’ discourses on the use of a specific method: multiple regression analysis in relation to litigation history, academic debates, and the institutional settings of expertise within the courts. I first show how the early reception of the …
Introduction to Symposium: Economists in Court
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Race in the History of Economics: The Missing Narratives
Leonard’s Illiberal Reformers was published in 2016 and provoked a large number of academic and non-academic comments—balanced analyses and historiographical discussions, vitriolic criticisms as well as outstanding praise. An unusual fate for a book on the history of economics, its discussion extended well beyond specialised journals into mainstream fora in economics and history. A symposium, massive press coverage in the US and in the UK, a ment…
Margaret W. Rossiter et l’histoire des femmes scientifiques américaines
Introduction to Margareth Rossiter's life and work
Keep Calm and Cite Better: Impact Factor Pressures and Review Articles in the History of Economics
Clarivate Analytics’ suppression of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for three history of economics journals in 2018 resulted from the publication of a single review article solicited for History of Economic Ideas (HEI). That episode highlights several connections between JIF pressures on authors and editors, on the practice of writing review articles, and on the field of history of economics. We examine the different roles and proliferation of re…
Sentiment and Prejudice
This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the B…
There Is Nothing Wrong about Being Money Grubbing!" Milton Friedman's Provocative "Capitalism and the Jews" in Context, 1972-88
In 1972, Milton Friedman gave a presidential lecture before the Mont Pèlerin Society titled "Capitalism and the Jews." The lecture was subsequently published as an essay in the 1980s. This article focuses on Fried-man's public interventions on the theme of capitalism and the Jews from the 1960s to the 1980s. We take a different perspectives from Jeff Lipkes's recent paper on the topic, published in this journal. While Lipkes examines the internal…
Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives
This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative ab…
Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist. How Efficiency Replace Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Elisabeth Popp Berman’s Thinking Like an Economist unfolds a captivating and detailed historical account of the rise of economics and economists’ influence within the US Administration during the 1960s and 1970s. This transformation played a pivotal role in reshaping American policy, Berman argues. At the core of her story is the concept of an “economic style of reasoning”, inspired by Ian Hacking’s (1994) work. Berman’s “economic style of reason…
Soline Blanchard et Sophie Pochic (dir.), Quantifier l’égalité au travail. Outils politiques et enjeux scientifiques: Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2021, 396 p
Calculer l’écart de salaire moyen entre femmes et hommes, énumérer les féminicides par an, révéler le coût de la virilité : la mise en chiffres des inégalités et de la violence liées au genre est rarement critiquée pour son réductionnisme. Cela est peut-être dû à la réaction évidente que provoquent ces mesures : ces chiffres sont trop élevés. Réduire la complexité du social pour produire une mesure synthétique est le principal avantage et la prin…
The Computerization of Economics: Three Lessons for Economics
In 1994, the Journal of Economic Perspectives published an article by William Goffe titled “Computer Network Resources for Economists”, starting with the statement: “[t]he Internet, the large and very rapidly expanding computer network, is revolutionizing research” (Goffe, 1994, 97). Goffe’s article aimed at providing the first “guide” for economists to understand the principles and mechanisms behind the functioning of the Internet, and it showca…
Contested values: Economic expertise in the comparable worth controversy, USA, 1979-1989
The comparable worth principle – a call for a general readjustment of wages according to a measure of the worth of an occupation – gained policy momentum in the United States in the early 1980s. A Supreme Court decision, multiple bills, congressional hearings as well as an arsenal of initiatives from women and labour groups all over the United States shaped the debate both as a technical as well as a political issue. At the core of the quarrel li…
Modelling intervention: Barbara Bergmann’s micro-to-macro simulation projects
Over a period of 12 years, Barbara Bergmann developed several models of the labour market using microsimulation, eventually integrated in a “Transactions Model” of the entire US economy, built with Robert Bennett and published in 1986. The paper reconstructs the history of this modelling enterprise in the context of the debates on the micro-foundations of macroeconomics and the role of macroeconomic expertise from the 1970s to the late 1980s. It …
Economics Is Not a Man's Field: CSWEP and the First Gender Reckoning in Economics, 1971-1991
This article examines the first gender reckoning in economics, focusing on the establishment and early activities of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). Drawing on materials in the hitherto closed archives of the AEA, we explore how CSWEP's mission to improve the representation and status of women in economics was linked to how economists understood women's role in the economy. The article concludes by reflec…
Economics (14 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Positive economics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 works) · Art (4 works)