Projects
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Research projects
Studying the History of Concepts with Embeddings
Methodological project · with Thomas Delcey
How to follow a concept through a large corpus with language-model embeddings, starting from our study of rationality in economics ("One Sentence at a Time") and aiming at reusable and documented tools.
Permanent call for contributions · edited with Thomas Delcey · OEconomia
An open, continuous call for papers presenting innovative uses of quantitative methods and data in the history, philosophy and methodology of economics, with a particular welcome for "data papers" and methodological papers that document how datasets are built and analysed.
The Scientific and the Political: Modelling and Forecasting the Economy in Policymaking Institutions
F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral project · UCLouvain (ISPOLE)
The scientific, organizational, and political issues raised by the macroeconomic forecasting models used by the European Central Bank and the European Commission.
ESHS Symposium: “The Scientization of Central Banks”
Symposium at the European Society for the History of Science · Brussels, 2022
A symposium (11 papers) on how central banks have become producers and users of scientific knowledge, organised with Francesco Sergi.
Special issue edited with François Claveau and Catherine Herfeld · OEconomia 13(2), 2023
Contributions that use quantitative and computational methods to offer insights and new stories about economics, its evolution, and its role in policymaking.
History of Economics Society New Initiatives Fund · with Alexandre Truc
An online interactive platform displaying bibliometric data on a large set of macroeconomic articles, to support quantitative inquiries in the history of macroeconomics (1970–2020).
UK ESRC, Rebuilding Macroeconomics · PI Béatrice Cherrier
Mapping the channels through which economics influences the Bank of England and how economic ideas impact (or do not impact) policy-making.
R packages, databases and tutorials
Becoming Economists: Bibliometric Data on Economics PhDs
Database and website · with Thomas Delcey
Bibliometric data on PhD dissertations in economics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: France (Sudoc and Theses.fr), the United States and the United Kingdom, with documentation and analyses of who becomes an economist and on which topics.
Central Banks' Documents Database
Database · scraping and cleaning scripts in R
Scripts to collect documents published by central banks and to clean them into a database of central bank documents.
R package
Find, parse and clean bibliographic references in PDF and text documents, built on the anystyle Ruby gem.
R package · with Alexandre Truc and François Claveau
Fast creation of bibliometric networks: bibliographic coupling, co-citation and co-authorship networks, optimised for very large datasets.
R package · with Alexandre Truc
A workflow to manipulate bibliometric networks, from building the graph through detecting clusters to projecting it with ggraph.