Béatrice Cherrier
Biographic Data
| ID | 714754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Béatrice Cherrier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Béatrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherrier |
| SIGNATURE | CHERRIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Polytechnique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6117-3149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A History of the Three-Equation New Keynesian Model as a Pedagogical Device: Policy, Research, Teaching
This article examines how pedagogical concerns shaped the development of the three-equation New Keynesian model, which became the dominant framework for teaching and evaluating monetary policy from the 1990s onward. Contrary to the standard narrative, the model did not originate in classrooms or academic journals but in central bank workshops. We show that the many macroeconomists who proposed small models in the 1990s simultaneously targeted res…
Land, Space, or Cities: A History of Urban Economics as a Field
The field of “urban economics” is an elusive object whose US-based origins, development, and internationalization we attempt to document in this paper. To flesh out urban economists’ territory, we rely on a mix of quantitative analysis (networks of authors most cited alongside the foundational contributions of William Alonso, Richard Muth, and Edwin Mills) and archival research. We identify several periods in the development of American urban eco…
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…
Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England
This paper discusses the transformation of the content, role, and status of economic research at the Bank of England in the past sixty years. We show how three factors (the policy functions and missions of the Bank, the attitude of its executives toward economics, and its organizational structure) shaped the evolution of in-house economic research at the Bank during three distinctive periods (1960-91; 1992-2007; 2007-14). Our account relies on a …
Write Your Model Almost as You Would on Paper and Dynare Will Take Care of the Rest!” A History of the Dynare Software
According to its creator Michel Juillard, Dynare is a “pre-processor and a collection of routines” aimed at solving and estimating non-linear rational expectation models. This article focuses on the role of Dynare in the dissemination of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models in academia and policymaking institutions. The case of Dynare highlights how the dissemination across the profession of theoretical principles and modelling pr…
The Price of Virtue: Some Hypotheses on How Tractability Has Shaped Economic Models
This paper seeks to convince historians that investigating how tractability has shaped individual and collective modeling choices in economics is a valuable endeavor. To do so, I first survey the economic methodology literature on tractability, one that grew out of methodologists’ attempts to explain why their authors make unrealistic assumptions. I then compare these accounts with the few instances where 20th century economists discussed tractab…
Monetary non-neutrality and stabilisation policies 50 years after Lucas’s “expectations” paper: A roundtable discussion
Half a century has passed since Robert Lucas got his paper on expectations and the neutrality of money published in the Journal of Economic Theory. That article is widely considered as pathbreaking, starting a movement that changed the professional standards of doing macroeconomics. It arguably also affected the perception, if not the conduct of monetary policy and other stabilisation policies. This roundtable discussion collects comments from a …
Margaret W. Rossiter et l’histoire des femmes scientifiques américaines
Introduction to Margareth Rossiter's life and work
The Transformation of Economic Analysis at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System During the 1960s
In this paper, we build on data on officials of the Federal Reserve System, oral history repositories, and hitherto underresearched archival sources to unpack the tortuous path toward crafting an institutional and intellectual space for postwar economic analysis within the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. We show that growing attention to new macroeconomic research was a reaction to both mounting external criticisms against the F…
Néolibéralisme partout, néolibéralisme nulle part: Discussion autour d’un texte de Philip Mirowski
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…
A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford
This article documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the twentieth century. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick Terman. We show that engineers drew upon economic theories of decision and allocation to improve practical industrial management decisions. Reciprocally, economists found in engineering …
How to Write a Memo to Convince a President: Walter Heller, Policy-Advising, and the Kennedy Tax Cut
Walter Heller’s success in convincing JF Kennedy to pass a “tax cut” when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s is often heralded as the poster child for economists’ policy influence, yet also sometimes seen as a lost golden age. The purpose of this paper is to reinvestigate how Heller channeled his expertise into policy, and what lessons he drew on how economists should engage with public reason. The paper first zooms …
The Ordinary Business of Macroeconometric Modeling
Using the FMP model as an example, this article examines the practices of macroeconometric modelers around 1970. It is argued that, for all the criticism such methods have received, they represented conscious choices made because modelers had objectives and criteria that were different from those of later critics. For example, where critics saw a lack of theoretical consistency, modelers saw and valued flexibility
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…
The Indeterminate Fate of Sunspots in Economics
The standard view of the history of macroeconomics is one of a series of battles between schools of thought, eventually resolved through a "new neoclassical synthesis" achieved during the 1990s. Recently, however, historians have challenged the very notion that macroeconomists' models and practices can adequately be understood as a series of battles between schools of thought. Our purpose, in this article, is to tell the story of another set of r…
Why Historians of Economics Should Tweet
This paper seeks to convince historians of economics to blog and tweet. It outlines the costs and benefits of doing so, and argues that social media thoroughly alter our research process, from data gathering to writing, collaborating, sharing and hacking, showcasing history and interacting with publics. Doing history of economics for the public and in public thus raises fundamental historiographical questions on research processes and audiences
Economists’ interest in collective decision after World War II: A history
The Age of the Applied Economist
It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise of empirical work: it involves a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work, which raised the prestige of the latter. The meaning of economic theory and applied w…
"It's Computers, Stupid!" The Spread of Computers and the Changing Roles of Theoretical and Applied Economics
This article challenges the widely held notion that developments in computing are sufficient to explain the recent turn to applied economics. Advances in computer hardware were undoubtedly necessary, and they were sufficient to ensure that there were significant changes in economists' practices, but to explain how and why economics changed, other factors need to be considered. It conjectures that the most profound effect of the increased availabi…
Toward a History of Economics at Mit, 1940-72
This article tells the development of economics at MIT between 1940 and 1972. The recruitment of Paul Samuelson in 1940 fostered the establishment of a small community of economists within an engineering institute that was itself undergoing major transformations. A "new economics" was then shaped during the fifties, one influenced by the demands of engineers, scientists, and business students, and somewhat eclipsed by the promising interdisciplin…
Rationalizing Human Organization in an Uncertain World: Jacob Marschak, from Ukrainian Prisons to Behavioral Science Laboratories
Jacob Marschak (1898-1977) had an enormous impact on the development of postwar economics, both as an intellectual mentor of Nobel Prize winners such as Kenneth Arrow and Franco Modigliani and as forerunner and institutional organizer of several research programs, most famously at the Cowles Commission. Nevertheless, he remains understudied by historians. This article uncovers the salient characteristics of his scientific vision in the forties an…
Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman–Stigler Correspondence 1945–1957 – J. Daniel Hammond, and Claire H. Hammond
The Age of the Applied Economist
It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise of empirical work: it involves a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work, which raised the prestige of the latter. The meaning of economic theory and applied w…
Rationalizing Human Organization in an Uncertain World: Jacob Marschak, from Ukrainian Prisons to Behavioral Science Laboratories
Jacob Marschak (1898-1977) had an enormous impact on the development of postwar economics, both as an intellectual mentor of Nobel Prize winners such as Kenneth Arrow and Franco Modigliani and as forerunner and institutional organizer of several research programs, most famously at the Cowles Commission. Nevertheless, he remains understudied by historians. This article uncovers the salient characteristics of his scientific vision in the forties an…
"It's Computers, Stupid!" The Spread of Computers and the Changing Roles of Theoretical and Applied Economics
This article challenges the widely held notion that developments in computing are sufficient to explain the recent turn to applied economics. Advances in computer hardware were undoubtedly necessary, and they were sufficient to ensure that there were significant changes in economists' practices, but to explain how and why economics changed, other factors need to be considered. It conjectures that the most profound effect of the increased availabi…
Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England
This paper discusses the transformation of the content, role, and status of economic research at the Bank of England in the past sixty years. We show how three factors (the policy functions and missions of the Bank, the attitude of its executives toward economics, and its organizational structure) shaped the evolution of in-house economic research at the Bank during three distinctive periods (1960-91; 1992-2007; 2007-14). Our account relies on a …
The Ordinary Business of Macroeconometric Modeling
Using the FMP model as an example, this article examines the practices of macroeconometric modelers around 1970. It is argued that, for all the criticism such methods have received, they represented conscious choices made because modelers had objectives and criteria that were different from those of later critics. For example, where critics saw a lack of theoretical consistency, modelers saw and valued flexibility
Toward a History of Economics at Mit, 1940-72
This article tells the development of economics at MIT between 1940 and 1972. The recruitment of Paul Samuelson in 1940 fostered the establishment of a small community of economists within an engineering institute that was itself undergoing major transformations. A "new economics" was then shaped during the fifties, one influenced by the demands of engineers, scientists, and business students, and somewhat eclipsed by the promising interdisciplin…
The Indeterminate Fate of Sunspots in Economics
The standard view of the history of macroeconomics is one of a series of battles between schools of thought, eventually resolved through a "new neoclassical synthesis" achieved during the 1990s. Recently, however, historians have challenged the very notion that macroeconomists' models and practices can adequately be understood as a series of battles between schools of thought. Our purpose, in this article, is to tell the story of another set of r…
Economists’ interest in collective decision after World War II: A history
How to Write a Memo to Convince a President: Walter Heller, Policy-Advising, and the Kennedy Tax Cut
Walter Heller’s success in convincing JF Kennedy to pass a “tax cut” when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s is often heralded as the poster child for economists’ policy influence, yet also sometimes seen as a lost golden age. The purpose of this paper is to reinvestigate how Heller channeled his expertise into policy, and what lessons he drew on how economists should engage with public reason. The paper first zooms …
The Price of Virtue: Some Hypotheses on How Tractability Has Shaped Economic Models
This paper seeks to convince historians that investigating how tractability has shaped individual and collective modeling choices in economics is a valuable endeavor. To do so, I first survey the economic methodology literature on tractability, one that grew out of methodologists’ attempts to explain why their authors make unrealistic assumptions. I then compare these accounts with the few instances where 20th century economists discussed tractab…
A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford
This article documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the twentieth century. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick Terman. We show that engineers drew upon economic theories of decision and allocation to improve practical industrial management decisions. Reciprocally, economists found in engineering …
Why Historians of Economics Should Tweet
This paper seeks to convince historians of economics to blog and tweet. It outlines the costs and benefits of doing so, and argues that social media thoroughly alter our research process, from data gathering to writing, collaborating, sharing and hacking, showcasing history and interacting with publics. Doing history of economics for the public and in public thus raises fundamental historiographical questions on research processes and audiences
Making Chicago Price Theory: Friedman–Stigler Correspondence 1945–1957 – J. Daniel Hammond, and Claire H. Hammond
Rationalizing Human Organization in an Uncertain World: Jacob Marschak, from Ukrainian Prisons to Behavioral Science Laboratories
Jacob Marschak (1898-1977) had an enormous impact on the development of postwar economics, both as an intellectual mentor of Nobel Prize winners such as Kenneth Arrow and Franco Modigliani and as forerunner and institutional organizer of several research programs, most famously at the Cowles Commission. Nevertheless, he remains understudied by historians. This article uncovers the salient characteristics of his scientific vision in the forties an…
Toward a History of Economics at Mit, 1940-72
This article tells the development of economics at MIT between 1940 and 1972. The recruitment of Paul Samuelson in 1940 fostered the establishment of a small community of economists within an engineering institute that was itself undergoing major transformations. A "new economics" was then shaped during the fifties, one influenced by the demands of engineers, scientists, and business students, and somewhat eclipsed by the promising interdisciplin…
Economists’ interest in collective decision after World War II: A history
The Age of the Applied Economist
It is widely accepted that economics has changed significantly since the 1970s with the development of new data sources, new methods of analysis, and the computer. This paper argues that this transformation of the discipline involves more than just a rise of empirical work: it involves a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work, which raised the prestige of the latter. The meaning of economic theory and applied w…
"It's Computers, Stupid!" The Spread of Computers and the Changing Roles of Theoretical and Applied Economics
This article challenges the widely held notion that developments in computing are sufficient to explain the recent turn to applied economics. Advances in computer hardware were undoubtedly necessary, and they were sufficient to ensure that there were significant changes in economists' practices, but to explain how and why economics changed, other factors need to be considered. It conjectures that the most profound effect of the increased availabi…
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…
The Indeterminate Fate of Sunspots in Economics
The standard view of the history of macroeconomics is one of a series of battles between schools of thought, eventually resolved through a "new neoclassical synthesis" achieved during the 1990s. Recently, however, historians have challenged the very notion that macroeconomists' models and practices can adequately be understood as a series of battles between schools of thought. Our purpose, in this article, is to tell the story of another set of r…
Why Historians of Economics Should Tweet
This paper seeks to convince historians of economics to blog and tweet. It outlines the costs and benefits of doing so, and argues that social media thoroughly alter our research process, from data gathering to writing, collaborating, sharing and hacking, showcasing history and interacting with publics. Doing history of economics for the public and in public thus raises fundamental historiographical questions on research processes and audiences
How to Write a Memo to Convince a President: Walter Heller, Policy-Advising, and the Kennedy Tax Cut
Walter Heller’s success in convincing JF Kennedy to pass a “tax cut” when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s is often heralded as the poster child for economists’ policy influence, yet also sometimes seen as a lost golden age. The purpose of this paper is to reinvestigate how Heller channeled his expertise into policy, and what lessons he drew on how economists should engage with public reason. The paper first zooms …
The Ordinary Business of Macroeconometric Modeling
Using the FMP model as an example, this article examines the practices of macroeconometric modelers around 1970. It is argued that, for all the criticism such methods have received, they represented conscious choices made because modelers had objectives and criteria that were different from those of later critics. For example, where critics saw a lack of theoretical consistency, modelers saw and valued flexibility
Néolibéralisme partout, néolibéralisme nulle part: Discussion autour d’un texte de Philip Mirowski
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…
A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford
This article documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the twentieth century. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick Terman. We show that engineers drew upon economic theories of decision and allocation to improve practical industrial management decisions. Reciprocally, economists found in engineering …
Margaret W. Rossiter et l’histoire des femmes scientifiques américaines
Introduction to Margareth Rossiter's life and work
The Transformation of Economic Analysis at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System During the 1960s
In this paper, we build on data on officials of the Federal Reserve System, oral history repositories, and hitherto underresearched archival sources to unpack the tortuous path toward crafting an institutional and intellectual space for postwar economic analysis within the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. We show that growing attention to new macroeconomic research was a reaction to both mounting external criticisms against the F…
Monetary non-neutrality and stabilisation policies 50 years after Lucas’s “expectations” paper: A roundtable discussion
Half a century has passed since Robert Lucas got his paper on expectations and the neutrality of money published in the Journal of Economic Theory. That article is widely considered as pathbreaking, starting a movement that changed the professional standards of doing macroeconomics. It arguably also affected the perception, if not the conduct of monetary policy and other stabilisation policies. This roundtable discussion collects comments from a …
Write Your Model Almost as You Would on Paper and Dynare Will Take Care of the Rest!” A History of the Dynare Software
According to its creator Michel Juillard, Dynare is a “pre-processor and a collection of routines” aimed at solving and estimating non-linear rational expectation models. This article focuses on the role of Dynare in the dissemination of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models in academia and policymaking institutions. The case of Dynare highlights how the dissemination across the profession of theoretical principles and modelling pr…
The Price of Virtue: Some Hypotheses on How Tractability Has Shaped Economic Models
This paper seeks to convince historians that investigating how tractability has shaped individual and collective modeling choices in economics is a valuable endeavor. To do so, I first survey the economic methodology literature on tractability, one that grew out of methodologists’ attempts to explain why their authors make unrealistic assumptions. I then compare these accounts with the few instances where 20th century economists discussed tractab…
Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England
This paper discusses the transformation of the content, role, and status of economic research at the Bank of England in the past sixty years. We show how three factors (the policy functions and missions of the Bank, the attitude of its executives toward economics, and its organizational structure) shaped the evolution of in-house economic research at the Bank during three distinctive periods (1960-91; 1992-2007; 2007-14). Our account relies on a …
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…
A History of the Three-Equation New Keynesian Model as a Pedagogical Device: Policy, Research, Teaching
This article examines how pedagogical concerns shaped the development of the three-equation New Keynesian model, which became the dominant framework for teaching and evaluating monetary policy from the 1990s onward. Contrary to the standard narrative, the model did not originate in classrooms or academic journals but in central bank workshops. We show that the many macroeconomists who proposed small models in the 1990s simultaneously targeted res…
Land, Space, or Cities: A History of Urban Economics as a Field
The field of “urban economics” is an elusive object whose US-based origins, development, and internationalization we attempt to document in this paper. To flesh out urban economists’ territory, we rely on a mix of quantitative analysis (networks of authors most cited alongside the foundational contributions of William Alonso, Richard Muth, and Edwin Mills) and archival research. We identify several periods in the development of American urban eco…
Economic Theory and Institutions (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (8 works) · Positive economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (6 works)