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Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices and Cultures.
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Description: The objective of this project, a HOPE conference organized in April 2019, is to reflect on the claim, made by economists and historians of the field alike, that economics has become over the twentieth century an engineering science. To do so, rather than trying to build on the ‘economics as engineering’ analogy used in the existing literature, we want to encourage contributions that explore the actual relations between economics and engineering from a variety of perspectives. The conference and the ensuing volume could shed some new light on the technical turn in economics in the twentieth century, but also on economics’ relation with neighboring disciplines and its role in policy issues. Chronologically we are mostly interested in post-1930s (and postwar) developments.