mintR
From a collection of texts to a structural topic model that can be justified: text preparation, comparison of many candidate models, and human validation.
Aurélien Goutsmedt
Historian of economics & political economist
UCLouvain (ISPOLE) · ICHEC Brussels
I am a historian of economics and a political economist. I work on the history of economic ideas, economic expertise and policies (notably central banks) since the 1970s and the stagflation. I also develop quantitative tools and open databases for the history of economics.
Recent work
Publications
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One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought
2026 · Forthcoming · European Journal for the History of Economic Thought
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Economists, Economic Knowledge, and Central Banks
2026 · Forthcoming · Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements
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A History of Macroeconomics
2026 · Forthcoming · Cambridge University Press, Elements
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To Change or Not to Change: The Evolution of Forecasting Models at the Bank of England
2025 · Journal of Economic Methodology 32(2): 66–86
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Redefining Scientization: Central Banks Between Science and Politics
2025 · Finance and Society 11(2): 209–229
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Release of anystyleR 0.0.999 (Development version)
I am thrilled to announce the inaugural development release of anystyleR! anystyleR is designed to extract, parse and clean…
Jan 8, 2024
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