François Claveau
Biographic Data
| ID | 953745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | François Claveau |
| GIVEN NAMES | François |
| FAMILY NAME | Claveau |
| SIGNATURE | CLAVEAU F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Sherbrooke |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7129-7794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mediated Testimony, or the Epistemology of Reporting the Words of Others
Not a steamroller, a 3D process: Scientization at the Bank of England
This article investigates the scientization process in central banks, using the Bank of England (BoE) as a case study. Its main goal is to clarify the interactions and tensions among three dimensions of scientization: contributory, policymaking and legitimizing. To do so, we outline an ideal type of contributory scientization in central banks, whereby they become active contributors to science. The article derives empirically observable character…
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 …
Science virale: Comment la Covid-19 a changé la représentation médiatique de la science
Background: Media representations of science have changed little over the past few decades, despite numerous calls for their enrichment. Analysis: The shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how the media represent science. This computational analysis of two large samples (news articles and Facebook posts) from French language news media in Canada describes and quantifies these changes. Conclusions and implications: Science has been mor…
Quantitative and Computational Approaches in the Social Studies of Economics
This special issue presents a diverse set of scholarly contributions that apply quantitative and computational methods to questions that fall within the broad scope of the ‘social studies of economics.’ The main aim of putting the contributions together is to showcase these methods and their potential to help generate novel insights and new accounts about economics as a scientific discipline embedded in a social context, about its evolution over …
Les think tanks dans le champ médiatique canadien
Cet article apporte une contribution empirique à la littérature sur la relation entre think tanks et médias en répondant à quatre grandes questions au sujet de l’espace canadien. Premièrement, nous documentons la relation entre le budget d’un think tank et sa visibilité médiatique. Deuxièmement, nous caractérisons l’expertise des think tanks canadiens selon la distribution des thèmes sur lesquels ils sont mentionnés. Troisièmement, nous démontron…
Social Dynamics of Expectations and Expertise: AI in Digital Humanitarian Innovation
Public discourse typically blurs the boundary between what artificial intelligence (AI) actually achieves and what it could accomplish in the future. The sociology of expectations teaches us that such elisions play a performative role: they encourage heterogeneous actors to partake, at various levels, in innovation activities. This article explores how optimistic expectations for AI concretely motivate and mobilize actors, how much heterogeneity …
The variety-of-evidence thesis: A Bayesian exploration of its surprising failures
Network Analysis in the History of Economics
We present social network analysis as a complement to other methods in the history of economics. We first discuss why social network analysis is especially promising for the study of the history of recent economics. We then use an example of research using it to highlight some of its characteristics
Let’s talk about objectivity: Historical and philosophical contributions
Don Ross, Philosophy of Economics
A possible misunderstanding must be addressed at the outset. In this book, Don Ross offers his philosophy of economics, not a survey of an area of contemporary philosophy that is conventionally referred to as philosophy of economics. Ross is explicit about that (Author’s preface, x). In consequence, the book is an outlier as a title in the series Palgrave Philosophy Today, a series “meant to help all philosophers, established and aspiring, to und…
Central banking and inequalities: Taking off the blinders
What is the relation between monetary policy and inequalities in income and wealth? This question has received insufficient attention, especially in light of the unconventional policies introduced since the 2008 financial crisis. The article analyzes three ways in which the concern central banks show for inequalities in their official statements remains incomplete and underdeveloped. First, central banks tend to care about inequality for instrume…
Macrodynamics of Economics: A Bibliometric History
A history of specialties in economics since the late 1950s is constructed on the basis of a large corpus of documents from economics journals. The production of this history relies on a combination of algorithmic methods that avoid subjective assessments of the boundaries of specialties: bibliographic coupling, automated community detection in dynamic networks, and text mining. These methods uncover a structuring of economics around recognizable …
The Independence Condition in the Variety-of-Evidence Thesis
The variety-of-evidence thesis has been criticized by Bovens and Hartmann. This article points to two limitations of their Bayesian model: the conceptualization of unreliable evidential sources as randomizing and the restriction to comparing full independence to full dependence. It is shown that the variety-of-evidence thesis is rehabilitated when unreliable sources are reconceptualized as systematically biased. However, it turns out that allowin…
The Russo–Williamson Theses in the social sciences: Causal inference drawing on two types of evidence
Revenu minimum garanti: Comparaison Internationale, Analyses Et Débats
Revenu minimum garanti : comparaison internationale, analyses et débats, Lionel-Henri Groulx, Sainte-Foy : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005, 360 p.La lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale est un enjeu qui hante constamment les débats politiques des pays occidentaux. L'ensemble des acteurs publics déplorent que, dans nos sociétés d'opulence, certains n'aient ni le minimum pour vivre ni la capacité d'exercer leurs droits sociaux. D…
Central banking and inequalities: Taking off the blinders
What is the relation between monetary policy and inequalities in income and wealth? This question has received insufficient attention, especially in light of the unconventional policies introduced since the 2008 financial crisis. The article analyzes three ways in which the concern central banks show for inequalities in their official statements remains incomplete and underdeveloped. First, central banks tend to care about inequality for instrume…
Macrodynamics of Economics: A Bibliometric History
A history of specialties in economics since the late 1950s is constructed on the basis of a large corpus of documents from economics journals. The production of this history relies on a combination of algorithmic methods that avoid subjective assessments of the boundaries of specialties: bibliographic coupling, automated community detection in dynamic networks, and text mining. These methods uncover a structuring of economics around recognizable …
The Independence Condition in the Variety-of-Evidence Thesis
The variety-of-evidence thesis has been criticized by Bovens and Hartmann. This article points to two limitations of their Bayesian model: the conceptualization of unreliable evidential sources as randomizing and the restriction to comparing full independence to full dependence. It is shown that the variety-of-evidence thesis is rehabilitated when unreliable sources are reconceptualized as systematically biased. However, it turns out that allowin…
The variety-of-evidence thesis: A Bayesian exploration of its surprising failures
The Russo–Williamson Theses in the social sciences: Causal inference drawing on two types of evidence
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 …
Network Analysis in the History of Economics
We present social network analysis as a complement to other methods in the history of economics. We first discuss why social network analysis is especially promising for the study of the history of recent economics. We then use an example of research using it to highlight some of its characteristics
Revenu minimum garanti: Comparaison Internationale, Analyses Et Débats
Revenu minimum garanti : comparaison internationale, analyses et débats, Lionel-Henri Groulx, Sainte-Foy : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2005, 360 p.La lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale est un enjeu qui hante constamment les débats politiques des pays occidentaux. L'ensemble des acteurs publics déplorent que, dans nos sociétés d'opulence, certains n'aient ni le minimum pour vivre ni la capacité d'exercer leurs droits sociaux. D…
The Russo–Williamson Theses in the social sciences: Causal inference drawing on two types of evidence
The Independence Condition in the Variety-of-Evidence Thesis
The variety-of-evidence thesis has been criticized by Bovens and Hartmann. This article points to two limitations of their Bayesian model: the conceptualization of unreliable evidential sources as randomizing and the restriction to comparing full independence to full dependence. It is shown that the variety-of-evidence thesis is rehabilitated when unreliable sources are reconceptualized as systematically biased. However, it turns out that allowin…
Let’s talk about objectivity: Historical and philosophical contributions
Don Ross, Philosophy of Economics
A possible misunderstanding must be addressed at the outset. In this book, Don Ross offers his philosophy of economics, not a survey of an area of contemporary philosophy that is conventionally referred to as philosophy of economics. Ross is explicit about that (Author’s preface, x). In consequence, the book is an outlier as a title in the series Palgrave Philosophy Today, a series “meant to help all philosophers, established and aspiring, to und…
Central banking and inequalities: Taking off the blinders
What is the relation between monetary policy and inequalities in income and wealth? This question has received insufficient attention, especially in light of the unconventional policies introduced since the 2008 financial crisis. The article analyzes three ways in which the concern central banks show for inequalities in their official statements remains incomplete and underdeveloped. First, central banks tend to care about inequality for instrume…
Macrodynamics of Economics: A Bibliometric History
A history of specialties in economics since the late 1950s is constructed on the basis of a large corpus of documents from economics journals. The production of this history relies on a combination of algorithmic methods that avoid subjective assessments of the boundaries of specialties: bibliographic coupling, automated community detection in dynamic networks, and text mining. These methods uncover a structuring of economics around recognizable …
Network Analysis in the History of Economics
We present social network analysis as a complement to other methods in the history of economics. We first discuss why social network analysis is especially promising for the study of the history of recent economics. We then use an example of research using it to highlight some of its characteristics
The variety-of-evidence thesis: A Bayesian exploration of its surprising failures
Social Dynamics of Expectations and Expertise: AI in Digital Humanitarian Innovation
Public discourse typically blurs the boundary between what artificial intelligence (AI) actually achieves and what it could accomplish in the future. The sociology of expectations teaches us that such elisions play a performative role: they encourage heterogeneous actors to partake, at various levels, in innovation activities. This article explores how optimistic expectations for AI concretely motivate and mobilize actors, how much heterogeneity …
Les think tanks dans le champ médiatique canadien
Cet article apporte une contribution empirique à la littérature sur la relation entre think tanks et médias en répondant à quatre grandes questions au sujet de l’espace canadien. Premièrement, nous documentons la relation entre le budget d’un think tank et sa visibilité médiatique. Deuxièmement, nous caractérisons l’expertise des think tanks canadiens selon la distribution des thèmes sur lesquels ils sont mentionnés. Troisièmement, nous démontron…
Science virale: Comment la Covid-19 a changé la représentation médiatique de la science
Background: Media representations of science have changed little over the past few decades, despite numerous calls for their enrichment. Analysis: The shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how the media represent science. This computational analysis of two large samples (news articles and Facebook posts) from French language news media in Canada describes and quantifies these changes. Conclusions and implications: Science has been mor…
Quantitative and Computational Approaches in the Social Studies of Economics
This special issue presents a diverse set of scholarly contributions that apply quantitative and computational methods to questions that fall within the broad scope of the ‘social studies of economics.’ The main aim of putting the contributions together is to showcase these methods and their potential to help generate novel insights and new accounts about economics as a scientific discipline embedded in a social context, about its evolution over …
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 …
Not a steamroller, a 3D process: Scientization at the Bank of England
This article investigates the scientization process in central banks, using the Bank of England (BoE) as a case study. Its main goal is to clarify the interactions and tensions among three dimensions of scientization: contributory, policymaking and legitimizing. To do so, we outline an ideal type of contributory scientization in central banks, whereby they become active contributors to science. The article derives empirically observable character…
Mediated Testimony, or the Epistemology of Reporting the Words of Others
Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (5 works) · Positive economics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works)