Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Interview with Joel Mokyr: "I'm Not Sure Democracy Will Survive"

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 Joel Mokyr, the Dutch-Israeli-American 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his work on the history of technology, is interviewed in Haaret...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Evicting Science from D.C.: the NSF building and it's History Wall

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 Evidently the NSF is taking up too much government real estate, here's the story from (appropriately enough) Scientific American: Trump...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Mark Satterthwaite interviewed by Sandeep Baliga (video)

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After listening to this interview with the great Mark Satterthwaite, I now understand the independent origins of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite t...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Computers in Econ (and in market design)

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 The current issue of the journal Œconomia. is devoted to  The Computerization of Economics. Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Interview with Vernon L. Smith by Sami Al-Suwailem

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 Here's an interview with Vernon Smith, in which he comments on the history of economics and his place in it. Interview with Vernon L. S...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

Scott Kominers on the history of matching, at Tsinghua, tomorrow

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 CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture: Scott Kominers "Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on li...
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Ted Groves interviewed by Sandeep Baliga (video)

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Ted Groves reflects on his career and collaborations, including his famous work with John Ledyard   Optimal allocation of public goods...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Ehud Kalai, interviewed on the past and future of game theory

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Here's a half-hour video interview of Ehud Kalai,  by Sandeep Baliga, that touches on the history of game theory at Northwestern and els...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Human evolution in the last 12,000 years, in PNAS

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My loose impression is that, not so long ago, scholars of human evolution discounted recent changes in the human genome, pointing out that m...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

Paul David (1935-2023)

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 My Stanford colleague Paul David has died. He was an exceptional, iconic economic historian. Gavin Wright has written this obit: Professor ...