RBE III Workshop

Programme de recherche

LES SAVOIRS QUANTITATIFS ET LES PRATIQUES ORGANISATIONNELLES

Workshop

REVISITING THE BOUNDARIES OF ECONOMICS

A Historical Perspective
3rd edition

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JOURNÉE D'ÉTUDES

(Écono)métrie: de l’arithmétique politique 

à la révolution probabiliste

(Econo)metrics: from Political Arithmetic 
to the Probability Revolution 

Rome, 7 September 2012

École française de Rome
Piazza Navona, 62
00186 Roma

Presentation

This workshop is jointly organized by the École Française de Rome and the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Moncalieri-Turin), and is part of two different series. In 2010 and 2011, the Collegio Carlo Alberto hosted two previous editions of the workshop Revisiting the Boundaries of Economics: A Historical Perspective, where important issues in economics were discussed from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary point of view. This is the third edition of such workshop, focusing on metaphors and models which have been adopted from other sciences in order to conceptualize the measurement of the economic reality.
The École Française de Rome is on the other hand starting with this initiative a new research program, focused on Quantitative Knowledge and Organizational Practices: other meetings concerning (Ac)counting and (Market)ing will follow in 2013 and 2014. The focus of such program is on the relationship between quantification procedures and their impact on practices, not only as a special case in the relationship between knowledge and organization (power), but also as showing the complex processes affecting theories when applied in practice. The aim is to sketch down, for some crucial disciplines, a first map of the parallel historical evolution of their scientific status and their instrumentality, identifying at least the major discontinuities.
The workshop (Econo)metrics: from Political Arithmetic to the Probability Revolution links together both these interdisciplinary and pragmatist perspectives, focusing on the emergence of a probabilistic approach to the measurement of economic phenomena.

Organisation scientifique :
Francesco Cassata (Università di Genova)
Giovanni Favero (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)

Contacts :
École française de Rome
Histoire moderne et contemporaine
Direction des études : François Dumasy  

Secrétariat : Claire Challéat
tél. 0039 0668 601 244
courriel : secrmod@efrome.it

Collegio Carlo Alberto (Moncalieri, Torino)
Secrétariat : Chiara Girotti
tél. 0039 011 670 5060
courriel : chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org

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PROGRAM

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Vendredi 7 septembre 2012 École française de Rome Salle de conférence, 1er étage 9h Accueil et introduction par François Dumasy (École française de Rome) et Roberto Marchionatti (Università di Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto) Première session / Panel 1 L’ECONOMETRIE AVANT L’ECONOMETRIE/ ECONOMETRICS BEFORE ECONOMETRICS  Présidence / Chair : Giovanni Favero (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) 9h30 Éric Brian (EHESS, Paris), L’état de la science de la population en 1790 à Paris selon Marie-Marc- Antoine BARAS. 10h Alain Desrosières (INSEE, Paris), Quantifier les sciences sociales : une perspective historique et comparative. Pause café / Coffee break 10h45 Alberto Baffigi (Banca d’Italia, Roma), Symptoms and measurement : studying economic reality in Italy before WWI. 11h15 Eric Chancellier (Université de Lorraine, Metz), The Early Years of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics : Prices and crops outlook studies, 1922-1930. 11h45 – 13h : Discussion Modérateur : Harro Maas (Utrecht, University School of Economics) Pause déjeuner / Lunch break Deuxième session / Panel 2 L’ECONOMETRIE AU VINGTIEME SIECLE ET LE PROCESSUS DE CONSTRUCTION DU MODELE / TWENTIETH-CENTURY ECONOMETRICS AND THE PROCESS OF MODEL BUILDING Présidence/Chair : Francesco Cassata (Università di Genova) 14h30 Michel Armatte (Université Paris Dauphine et Centre A. Koyré - EHESS, Paris), Difficultés et ambiguités d’une économétrie aléatoire. 15h Ariane Dupont-Kieffer (IFSTTAR), Frisch's Approach : Econometrics as the Science of Measurement. Modelling as Intertwining between Theoretical Analysis and Statistical Investigation. 15h30 Francisco Louçã (ISEG-UECE, Lisboa), Schumpeter, Frisch and Lucas : the Oscillations of Economics while Dealing with Oscillations in the Economies. Pause café / Coffee break 16h15 – 17h : Discussion Modérateur : John C. Aldrich (University of Southampton)

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