Session 8 – Modelling issues in macroeconomics and econometrics

Colloque Malinvaud, Decembre 2016.

Session 8 – Modelling issues in macroeconomics and econometrics. Chair: Roger Guesnerie (Collège de France, PSE)

1. Camila Orozco Espinel (EHESS, Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University) Rigorism and Abstract Reasoning: Econometric Society and Cowles Commission Demarcation of Mainstream Economics Territory (1930-1960). Discussant: Fréderic Lebaron (ENS Paris-Saclay)

2. Francesco Sergi (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Models as laboratories. Robert E. Lucas on expertise. Discussant: Marc Lavoie (Université d'Ottawa et Université Paris 13)

3. Erich Pinzón Fuchs (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne et Duke University) Macroeconometric modeling as a “photographic description of reality” or as an “engine for the discovery of concrete truth”? Friedman and Klein on statistical illusions. Discussant: Pedro Garcia Duarte (University of São Paulo, INET)