Events
Brokering ideas in social sciences
MaxPo organizes a monthly seminar entitled SCOOPS (Seminars and Colloquia on Ökonomie, Politics and Society),
as well as occasionally holds Impromptu seminars on various topics related to the center’s research themes.
The annual MaxPo Lecture features distinguished speakers and aims to showcase their work.
The lectures serve to extend the Center’s reach and encourage dialogue with other disciplines.
The MPIfG and Sciences Po along with its affiliated institutes organize conferences, workshops,
and doctoral seminars in Cologne and Paris to foster both the exchange of ideas between the two partner institutions and the integration of Franco-German
research traditions.
Forthcoming events
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MaxPo SCOOPS − co-sponsored with École urbaine de Sciences Po and
Cities are back in town
Monday, May 3, 2021 | 13:00−14:30
Cities, Land, and Space: A History of "Urban Economics" as a Field
Béatrice Cherrier, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)
Discussant: Philipp Brandt, Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Sciences Po, Paris
***Zoom seminar***
Please register to attend
Cities, Land, and Space: A History of "Urban Economics" as a Field
"Urban Economics" is an elusive object in a way that most economic fields are not. Indeed, economic, just like other mature science, is organized in fields,
specialties and research programs. These are sometimes studied more as “cognitive” divisions, sometimes more as organizational and professional identities. They are
sometimes tied to the identity of scientists themselves, sometimes to their research objects or questions. In economics, those cognitive and professional divisions have
been quite stable over time and embedded into a consistent disciplinary structure. An intellectual reason for both the stability of fields and the mobility of economists between them
is the strengthening of “core” models and methods in the postwar decades. Other scholars have pointed to the unusually strong hierarchical structure of economics and clear boundaries
with other sciences.
Béatrice Cherrier is a historian of economics. She is a CNRS researcher, affiliated with CREST,
and an associate professor at École Polytechnique. Cherrier's overarching research agenda is to understand the perceived rise of applied economics since the 1970s. She is currently studying
the question how seminars, workshops, and conferences have shaped the history of economics with Aurélien Saidi.
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