Presentation

This workshop is jointly organized by the cole Franaise 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 cole Franaise 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.

cole franaise de Rome Collegio Carlo Alberto

Programme de recherche Les savoirs quantitatifs et les pratiques organisationnelles Workshop Revisiting the Boundaries of Economics. A Historical Perspective III Edition

Journe d'tudes

(cono)mtrie: de larithmtique politique la rvolution probabiliste

Organisation scientifique : Francesco Cassata (Universit di Genova) Giovanni Favero (Universit Ca' Foscari, Venezia) Contacts : cole franaise de Rome Histoire moderne et contemporaine Direction des tudes : Franois Dumasy Secrtariat : Claire Challat tl. 0039 0668 601 244 courriel : secrmod@efrome.it Collegio Carlo Alberto (Moncalieri, Torino) Secrtariat : Chiara Girotti tl. 0039 011 670 5060 courriel : chiara.girotti@carloalberto.org

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

Rome, 7 septembre 2012

cole franaise de Rome Piazza Navona, 62 00186 Roma

Vendredi 7 septembre 2012 cole franaise de Rome Salle de confrence, 1er tage 9h Accueil et introduction par Franois Dumasy (cole franaise de Rome) et Roberto Marchionatti (Universit di Torino, Collegio Carlo Alberto) Premire session / Panel 1 LECONOMETRIE AVANT LECONOMETRIE / ECONOMETRICS BEFORE ECONOMETRICS Prsidence / Chair : Giovanni Favero (Universit Ca Foscari, Venezia) 9h30 ric Brian (EHESS, Paris), Ltat de la science de la population en 1790 Paris selon Marie-MarcAntoine BARAS. 10h Alain Desrosires (INSEE, Paris), Quantifier les sciences sociales : une perspective historique et comparative. Pause caf / Coffee break

10h45 Alberto Baffigi (Banca dItalia, Roma), Symptoms and measurement : studying economic reality in Italy before WWI. 11h15 Eric Chancellier (Universit de Lorraine, Metz), The Early Years of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics : Prices and crops outlook studies, 1922-1930. 11h45 13h : Discussion Modrateur : Harro Maas (Utrecht, University School of Economics) Pause djeuner / Lunch break Deuxime session / Panel 2 LECONOMETRIE AU VINGTIEME SIECLE
ET LE PROCESSUS DE CONSTRUCTION DU MODELE / TWENTIETH-CENTURY ECONOMETRICS AND THE PROCESS OF MODEL BUILDING

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 Lou (ISEG-UECE, Lisboa), Schumpeter, Frisch and Lucas : the Oscillations of Economics while Dealing with Oscillations in the Economies. Pause caf / Coffee break 16h15 17h : Discussion Modrateur : John C. Aldrich (University of Southampton)

Prsidence/Chair : Francesco Cassata (Universit di Genova) 14h30 Michel Armatte (Universit Paris Dauphine et Centre A. Koyr - EHESS, Paris), Difficults et ambiguits dune conomtrie alatoire.