Yann Giraud
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yann Giraud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yann |
| FAMILY NAME | Giraud |
| SIGNATURE | GIRAUD Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | CY Cergy Paris Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8185-5550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Cold War Anxiety to Scholarly Field: The Academicization of Economic Education in the United States, 1945–1979
This article examines the emergence of economic education as a recognized research field in the United States from the late 1950s to the 1970s. It argues that growing Cold War concerns about citizenship, economic literacy, and national competitiveness created a favorable environment for renewed interest in economic education. Within this context, organizations such as the Joint Council on Economic Education and the American Economic Association s…
Négocier, c’est jouer du temps
Negotiation is a process that takes time and requires one to be methodical, calm and clear. Wanting to move too quickly is a common mistake; speed is not always synonymous with efficiency, as it can cause one to lose sight of the real issues at stake. Controlling the pace of an exchange is a powerful tactic, because whoever sets the pace directs the dynamics of the exchange. Slowing down allows one to regain control, observe, reflect and avoid th…
La Revue économique (1950-2025), une perspective quantitative
The History of Economics Society Bulletin and Journal of the History of Economic Thought (1979–2023)
The History of Economics Society (HES) initiated the History of Economics Society Bulletin ( HESB ) in 1979. Discussed at the 1978 meetings of the HES, the HESB was first conceived of as something “less” than History of Political Economy ( HOPE )—i.e., an academic journal with a defined editorial line—but also “more” than just a newsletter for HES members (Caldwell 2021; Vaughn, this issue). Edited by Karen E. Vaughn (1979 to 1983) and William O.…
Visualization or Mathematization? The London School of Economics and "Diagrammatic Economics" in the 1930s
Although the subject of numerous contributions in the history of economics, the use of theoretical diagrams by economists is still quite misunderstood, as this practice is often characterized as a basic form of mathematization, soon replaced by more rigorous techniques of demonstration or exhibition. The present article attempts to challenge this view, focusing on a period of time, the 1930s, during which "diagrammatic economics" and other techni…
Başak Aray, Otto Neurath et le Cercle de Vienne de gauche: Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2022, 160 pages
Après avoir été négligé durant les premières décennies qui ont suivi sa disparition en 1945, Otto Neurath est redevenu une figure centrale non seulement en histoire et en philosophie des sciences, mais aussi dans les études sur l’urbanisme, l’architecture, la muséographie et le design graphique. C’est même dans ces derniers domaines que la littérature récente sur Neurath est aujourd’hui la plus abondante. Au-delà des travaux purement universitair…
Jhet Interviews: E. Roy Weintraub
The following is a transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub about his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub’s early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary economics, and the role of science studies in providing a natural language for such explorations. A French translation has already be…
« J’ai toujours agi de l’extérieur »
"Seeking the "museum of the future: Public exhibitions of science, industry, and the social, 1910-1940
Using as case studies the initiatives developed by two museum curators, the Belgian bibliographer Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and the Austrian social scientist Otto Neurath (1882-1945), and their subsequent collaboration with an extended network of scientists, philanthropists, artists, and social activists, this article provides a portrait of the general movement toward the creation of a new form of museum: the "museum of the future," as Neurath label…
The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century by Alex Csiszar
International audience
Le blues du dominant
Néolibéralisme partout, néolibéralisme nulle part: Discussion autour d’un texte de Philip Mirowski
Addressing the Audience: Paul Samuelson, Radical Economics, and Textbook Making, 1967–1973
Historians of economics rarely consider textbooks as more than passive receptacles of previously validated knowledge. Therefore, their active role in shaping the discipline and its image is seldom addressed. In this paper, I study the making of Paul Samuelson’s successive editions of Economics from 1967 to 1973 as an instance of how textbooks stand at the crossroads between disciplinary knowledge, pedagogy, and larger political and societal conce…
Five Decades of Hope
Newcomers to the history of economics are often exposed to several texts that try to define the subject, make a case for its usefulness, and present the various methods one can use to establish historical claims. Such pieces introduce a number of methodological divides, for instance the standard dichotomy between rational and historical reconstructions. Most of the time, authors of such pieces disclose their historiographic preferences and provid…
Si le roi savait
Éditer une revue de sciences humaines et sociales artisanale relève d’un engagement intellectuel et professionnel particulier. Alors que les injonctions à une certaine professionnalisation – bureaucratique, normalisatrice, tue-l’amour de la science – des équipes et comités de rédaction redoublent d’intensité, les membres de Zilsel se retrouvent dans une pratique éditoriale joyeusement attachée aux normes les plus élémentaires de l’ethos scientifi…
Textbooks in the History of Recent Economics
International audience
Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission's Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949
Argument In the decades following World War II, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics came to represent new technical standards that informed most advances in economic theory. The public emergence of this community was manifest at a conference held in June 1949 titled Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation . New ideas in optimization theory, linked to linear programming, developed from the conference's papers. The authors’ histo…
Negotiating the "Middle-of-the-Road" Position: Paul Samuelson, Mit, and the Politics of Textbook Writing, 1945-55
Previous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson's political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. By contrast, this article depicts the making of Economics itself as a political process. It argues that the "middle-of-the-road" position that Samuelson adopted in the book was consciously constructed by the MIT economist, with the help of his home institution and…
Economics for the Masses: The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United States (1910-45)
The rise of visual representation in textbooks is an important feature of the development of the economics discipline after World War II. We argue that it was preceded by a no less significant rise of visual representation in the larger literature devoted to social and scientific issues. During the interwar period, editors, propagandists, and social scientists encouraged the use of visual language as an important means of spreading information an…
The Dissemination of The Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776-1843
Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission's Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949
Argument In the decades following World War II, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics came to represent new technical standards that informed most advances in economic theory. The public emergence of this community was manifest at a conference held in June 1949 titled Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation . New ideas in optimization theory, linked to linear programming, developed from the conference's papers. The authors’ histo…
Negotiating the "Middle-of-the-Road" Position: Paul Samuelson, Mit, and the Politics of Textbook Writing, 1945-55
Previous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson's political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. By contrast, this article depicts the making of Economics itself as a political process. It argues that the "middle-of-the-road" position that Samuelson adopted in the book was consciously constructed by the MIT economist, with the help of his home institution and…
Five Decades of Hope
Newcomers to the history of economics are often exposed to several texts that try to define the subject, make a case for its usefulness, and present the various methods one can use to establish historical claims. Such pieces introduce a number of methodological divides, for instance the standard dichotomy between rational and historical reconstructions. Most of the time, authors of such pieces disclose their historiographic preferences and provid…
Economics for the Masses: The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United States (1910-45)
The rise of visual representation in textbooks is an important feature of the development of the economics discipline after World War II. We argue that it was preceded by a no less significant rise of visual representation in the larger literature devoted to social and scientific issues. During the interwar period, editors, propagandists, and social scientists encouraged the use of visual language as an important means of spreading information an…
Textbooks in the History of Recent Economics
International audience
Visualization or Mathematization? The London School of Economics and "Diagrammatic Economics" in the 1930s
Although the subject of numerous contributions in the history of economics, the use of theoretical diagrams by economists is still quite misunderstood, as this practice is often characterized as a basic form of mathematization, soon replaced by more rigorous techniques of demonstration or exhibition. The present article attempts to challenge this view, focusing on a period of time, the 1930s, during which "diagrammatic economics" and other techni…
"Seeking the "museum of the future: Public exhibitions of science, industry, and the social, 1910-1940
Using as case studies the initiatives developed by two museum curators, the Belgian bibliographer Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and the Austrian social scientist Otto Neurath (1882-1945), and their subsequent collaboration with an extended network of scientists, philanthropists, artists, and social activists, this article provides a portrait of the general movement toward the creation of a new form of museum: the "museum of the future," as Neurath label…
The Dissemination of The Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776-1843
Economics for the Masses: The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United States (1910-45)
The rise of visual representation in textbooks is an important feature of the development of the economics discipline after World War II. We argue that it was preceded by a no less significant rise of visual representation in the larger literature devoted to social and scientific issues. During the interwar period, editors, propagandists, and social scientists encouraged the use of visual language as an important means of spreading information an…
Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission's Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949
Argument In the decades following World War II, the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics came to represent new technical standards that informed most advances in economic theory. The public emergence of this community was manifest at a conference held in June 1949 titled Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation . New ideas in optimization theory, linked to linear programming, developed from the conference's papers. The authors’ histo…
Negotiating the "Middle-of-the-Road" Position: Paul Samuelson, Mit, and the Politics of Textbook Writing, 1945-55
Previous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson's political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics. By contrast, this article depicts the making of Economics itself as a political process. It argues that the "middle-of-the-road" position that Samuelson adopted in the book was consciously constructed by the MIT economist, with the help of his home institution and…
Si le roi savait
Éditer une revue de sciences humaines et sociales artisanale relève d’un engagement intellectuel et professionnel particulier. Alors que les injonctions à une certaine professionnalisation – bureaucratique, normalisatrice, tue-l’amour de la science – des équipes et comités de rédaction redoublent d’intensité, les membres de Zilsel se retrouvent dans une pratique éditoriale joyeusement attachée aux normes les plus élémentaires de l’ethos scientifi…
Textbooks in the History of Recent Economics
International audience
Five Decades of Hope
Newcomers to the history of economics are often exposed to several texts that try to define the subject, make a case for its usefulness, and present the various methods one can use to establish historical claims. Such pieces introduce a number of methodological divides, for instance the standard dichotomy between rational and historical reconstructions. Most of the time, authors of such pieces disclose their historiographic preferences and provid…
Le blues du dominant
Néolibéralisme partout, néolibéralisme nulle part: Discussion autour d’un texte de Philip Mirowski
Addressing the Audience: Paul Samuelson, Radical Economics, and Textbook Making, 1967–1973
Historians of economics rarely consider textbooks as more than passive receptacles of previously validated knowledge. Therefore, their active role in shaping the discipline and its image is seldom addressed. In this paper, I study the making of Paul Samuelson’s successive editions of Economics from 1967 to 1973 as an instance of how textbooks stand at the crossroads between disciplinary knowledge, pedagogy, and larger political and societal conce…
« J’ai toujours agi de l’extérieur »
"Seeking the "museum of the future: Public exhibitions of science, industry, and the social, 1910-1940
Using as case studies the initiatives developed by two museum curators, the Belgian bibliographer Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and the Austrian social scientist Otto Neurath (1882-1945), and their subsequent collaboration with an extended network of scientists, philanthropists, artists, and social activists, this article provides a portrait of the general movement toward the creation of a new form of museum: the "museum of the future," as Neurath label…
The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century by Alex Csiszar
International audience
Jhet Interviews: E. Roy Weintraub
The following is a transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub about his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub’s early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary economics, and the role of science studies in providing a natural language for such explorations. A French translation has already be…
Başak Aray, Otto Neurath et le Cercle de Vienne de gauche: Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2022, 160 pages
Après avoir été négligé durant les premières décennies qui ont suivi sa disparition en 1945, Otto Neurath est redevenu une figure centrale non seulement en histoire et en philosophie des sciences, mais aussi dans les études sur l’urbanisme, l’architecture, la muséographie et le design graphique. C’est même dans ces derniers domaines que la littérature récente sur Neurath est aujourd’hui la plus abondante. Au-delà des travaux purement universitair…
The History of Economics Society Bulletin and Journal of the History of Economic Thought (1979–2023)
The History of Economics Society (HES) initiated the History of Economics Society Bulletin ( HESB ) in 1979. Discussed at the 1978 meetings of the HES, the HESB was first conceived of as something “less” than History of Political Economy ( HOPE )—i.e., an academic journal with a defined editorial line—but also “more” than just a newsletter for HES members (Caldwell 2021; Vaughn, this issue). Edited by Karen E. Vaughn (1979 to 1983) and William O.…
Visualization or Mathematization? The London School of Economics and "Diagrammatic Economics" in the 1930s
Although the subject of numerous contributions in the history of economics, the use of theoretical diagrams by economists is still quite misunderstood, as this practice is often characterized as a basic form of mathematization, soon replaced by more rigorous techniques of demonstration or exhibition. The present article attempts to challenge this view, focusing on a period of time, the 1930s, during which "diagrammatic economics" and other techni…
Négocier, c’est jouer du temps
Negotiation is a process that takes time and requires one to be methodical, calm and clear. Wanting to move too quickly is a common mistake; speed is not always synonymous with efficiency, as it can cause one to lose sight of the real issues at stake. Controlling the pace of an exchange is a powerful tactic, because whoever sets the pace directs the dynamics of the exchange. Slowing down allows one to regain control, observe, reflect and avoid th…
La Revue économique (1950-2025), une perspective quantitative
From Cold War Anxiety to Scholarly Field: The Academicization of Economic Education in the United States, 1945–1979
This article examines the emergence of economic education as a recognized research field in the United States from the late 1950s to the 1970s. It argues that growing Cold War concerns about citizenship, economic literacy, and national competitiveness created a favorable environment for renewed interest in economic education. Within this context, organizations such as the Joint Council on Economic Education and the American Economic Association s…
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