The Superiority of Economists

By M. Fourcade, Étienne Ollion, Yann Algan. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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• NIGHT LIGHTS IN ECONOMICS: SOURCES AND USES1 (2020, background): “The insularity of economics is well known (e.g. Fourcade et al, 2015) yet it is still surprising to find that when applied economists have ventured into using a data source that is fairly new to the discipline, and is based on data collection methods that are not covered in typical economics…”
• From performativity to political economy: index investing, ETFs and asset manager capitalism (2016, background): “After a brief period of doubt following the global financial crisis of 2008–9, economics seems to have consolidated its spot in the sun at the top of the ‘implicit pecking order among the social sciences’ (Fourcade et al. 2015: 89).”