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  • TIMES OF CHANGE

  • Marcel Boumans, Evelyn L Forget
  • Journal:
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought / Volume 46 / Issue 4 / December 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 February 2024, pp. 669-672
    Print publication:
    December 2024
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  • A personal account of their experiences by Marcel Boumans and Evelyn Forget as JHET editors of issues 31 (1) to 35 (4).

  • 2022 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS AS ECONOMIC SELF-PORTRAITURE

  • Marcel Boumans
  • Journal:
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought / Volume 45 / Issue 3 / September 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 February 2023, pp. 367-383
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    September 2023
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  • I wrote this address during the first weeks of the murderous and devastating invasion of Russia in Ukraine, in a fluctuating mood of anger and sadness. My aim was addressing the issue of the use of history to legitimize ideology, and I was contemplating how I could convince you of the urgency of this issue, and then this war broke out.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam, Giora Hon, University of Haifa, Arthur C. Petersen, VU University Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice
    Published by:
    Pickering & Chatto
    Published online:
    05 December 2014, pp 1-12

  • Summary

    There is no general theory of error, and there will never be one. Indeed, the task of theorizing error is insurmountable. The author of the entry, ‘Erreur’, in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert had already cautioned in the mid-eighteenth century that, although several philosophers detailed the errors of the senses, the imagination and the passions, their imperfect theories are ill-suited to cast light on practical decisions. And, he continued, the imagination and passions are enfolded in so many ways and depend so strongly on temperaments, times and circumstances, that it is impossible to uncover all the hidden forces that the imagination and passions activate. A century later the English logician de Morgan concurred, ‘There is no such thing as a classification of the ways in which men may arrive at an error; it is much to be doubted whether there ever can be’. The study of error cannot commence with a successful stroke of disambiguation upon which a coherent and all-embracing theory could be founded. Historically and etymologically ‘error’ may be traced to the Latin root ‘errare’, which originally had two contrasting meanings: first, ‘to go this way and that, to walk at random’ and second, ‘to go off the track, to go astray’. So right at the origin of the term, there is a tension between aimless wandering and straying from some definite path.

Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice
  • Edited by Marcel Boumans, Giora Hon, Arthur C. Petersen
  • Published by:
    Pickering & Chatto
    Published online:
    05 December 2014
  • Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. Empirical research involves dealing with all kinds of errors and uncertainties, yet there is significant variance in how such results are dealt with. Contributors to this volume present case studies of research practices across a wide spectrum of scientific fields, including experimental physics, econometrics, environmental science, climate science, engineering, measurement science and statistics. They compare methodologies and present the ingredients needed for an overarching framework applicable to all.

  • FROM THE EDITORS

  • Marcel Boumans, Evelyn L. Forget
  • Journal:
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought / Volume 31 / Issue 1 / March 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 March 2009, pp. 1-2
    Print publication:
    March 2009
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