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FORTNIGHT – six essays

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The following six essays appeared in the online magazine FORTNIGHT between December 17, 2011 and March 10, 2012.

Essay #1 – On Narratives (link, pdf)
Essay #2 – Killing Digital Curation (link, pdf)
Essay #3 – Caricatures (link, pdf)
Essay #4 – Reckonings (link, pdf)
Essay #5 – Ethics in Economics (link, pdf)
Essay #6 – Occupy the Imagination (link, pdf)

With my thanks to the Fortnight team in particular the nurturing editing of Samantha Hinds and Ian Campbell and the remarkable illustrations of Matt McCann.

Introduction: The history of economics as a history of practice

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Introduction: The history of economics as a history of practice in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2011, 18(5): 635-642; with Harro Maas and John Davis.

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Introduction and overview essay for a special issue of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought that brings together papers from the 2010 annual meetings of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought held in Amsterdam. (Aging conference website here)

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Trust in independence: The identities of economists in business magazines, 1945–1970

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Trust in independence: The identities of economists in business magazines, 1945–1970 in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2011, 47(4): 359–379.

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The cultural authority of social science hinges on its public representation. In postwar United States of America, the business media were influential promoters of the appreciation of economics. This essay examines the work of a journalist and editor, Leonard S. Silk, and a magazine, Business Week, to reveal how trust in economics was established in the 1960s. Electing a cast of representatives of the economics profession, the media examined their biography, character and social identity. Economists were first assigned the identity of assistants to business planning, as forecasters. Soon after, economists were represented as experts on the fiscal management of the economy, as government advisers. Overall, trustworthiness in the media was a measure of the perceived independence of economists from their employers and from ideology.

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Academic Freedom in 1960s and 1970s American Social Sciences

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The Enemy Within: Academic Freedom in 1960s and 1970s American Social Sciences in History of Political Economy, 2010, 42(Supplement): 77-104.

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(early abstract, but that does describe the subject)
Inspired by the sixties’ New Left, the civil rights and women’s liberation movements, social scientists labeling themselves “radicals” challenged the cultural norms of American society and of professional conduct. Left-wing in ideology and practice, the radicals staged protests in the campuses and experimented with new curricula and pedagogy. In the early to mid 1970s many radicals saw their contracts terminated or were otherwise denied tenure. Their response was to file complaints of political discrimination at the professional associations. The essay examines reports and correspondence from the American Association of University Professors, American Economic Association, American Political Science Association and American Sociological Association to compare each profession’s response to these allegations. This exam highlights differences between the disciplines’ definition of politics and its putative role in the classroom.

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