Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast
Episode Ninety Seven
February 15, 202655 min · 7,956 words
Show notes
Jennifer and François Allisson chat with Verena Halsmayer, University Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Vienna. The conversation focuses on Dr. Halsmayer's award-winning book, Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow's Model as an Artifact (Cambridge University Press, 2024), which explores the historical and technical development of Robert Solow's famous economic growth model. Other topics include Halsmayer's work on "Interventionist Social Knowledge" and "alternative economic planning."
Highlighted moments
what made this model so compelling um was its specific format and this is what i i then deal with in the book
“is it a description of how capitalist economies actually work or of the consequences of maintaining full employment there is some ambiguity in the way you put it in 1956”
“for the simple reason that it wasn't clear to me at the time exactly what i was doing”
“it equipped a vocabulary of growth development and productivity with this image um of a manageable mechanism”
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