NDLI: 'It's Computerization, Stupid!' The Spread of Computers and the Changing Roles of Theoretical and Applied Economics

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'It's Computerization, Stupid!' The Spread of Computers and the Changing Roles of Theoretical and Applied Economics

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Author	Backhouse, Roger Cherrier, Beatrice
Copyright Year	2016
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal This paper challenges the widely held notion that the developments in computing are sufficient to explain the recent turn to applied economics. Developments in computer hardware were undoubtedly important. Yet, economists' appropriation of the new techniques allowed by computerization were highly selective, and influenced by the development of software and ties with other scientific communities, by the availability of business and governmental data, by salesmanship to policy-makers, and by how epistemologically acceptable these approaches were made to other economists. In particular, theoretical work was not be transformed by computers the way it was in physics or biology. We conjecture that the most profound effect of the increased availability of computers may have been to challenge the demarcation between theory and applied work.
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ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.2781253
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2016-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal History and Philosophy of Science Information Technology Applied Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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