Catherine Sophia Herfeld

University of Zurich

Rämistrasse 71

Zürich, CH-8006

Switzerland

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New Scope, New Sources, New Methods? An Essay on Contemporary Scholarship in History of Economic Thought Journals, 2016-2017

The Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series at Duke University No. 2018-07
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 22 May 2018 Last Revised: 26 May 2018
Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Catherine Sophia Herfeld and Erich Pinzón-Fuchs
University of Bologna, University of Zurich and Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Historiography; recent literature on the history of economic thought; scope, methods, and sources in the history of economic thought; new trends in the history of economic thought

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From Theories of Human Behavior to Rules of Rational Choice: Tracing a Normative Turn at the Cowles Commission, 1943-1954

History of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2017
Catherine Sophia Herfeld
University of Zurich
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history of rational choice theory, Cowles Commission, normative turn

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Social Network Analysis: A Complementary Method of Discovery for the History of Economics

Forthcoming, A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, E. Roy Weintraub and Till Düppe (eds.), Routledge.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Mar 2018
François Claveau and Catherine Sophia Herfeld
Université de Sherbrooke and University of Zurich
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history of economics, social network analysis, recent historiography of economics

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Between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules, and the Behavioral Sciences: The Emergence of Rational Choice Theories in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2017
Catherine Sophia Herfeld
University of Zurich
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History of rational choice theory

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Axiomatic Choice Theory Traveling between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules and Psychological Measurement, 1944-1956

CHOPE Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University Working Paper No. 2013-11
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2013
Catherine Sophia Herfeld
University of Zurich
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axiomatic method, Jacob Marschak, rational choice theory, Cowles Commission, expected utility theory, biographies of scientific objects, behavioral sciences, Ford Foundation, John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, game theory

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Impact Factor Pressures, Scientific Practices, and the Place of Survey Articles in the History of Economics

Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University Working Paper Series No. 2019-09
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Jan 2020
Erich Pinzón-Fuchs, Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Catherine Sophia Herfeld
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, University of Bologna and University of Zurich
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Survey Article, Review Article, Clarivate Analytics, Impact Factors, Publishing and Scientific Practices, History of Economics

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Progress in Economics

New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, edited by Yafeng Shan. Routledge
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Mar 2022
Marcel J. Boumans and Catherine Sophia Herfeld
Utrecht University School of Economics and University of Zurich
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Business cycle model, functional progress, model building, template, transfer of knowledge

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Imagination Rather than Observation in Econometrics: Ragnar Frisch's Hypothetical Experiments As Thought Experiments

Herfeld, Catherine (2019): Imagination Rather Than Observation in Econometrics: Ragnar Frisch’s Hypothetical Experiments as Thought Experiments, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 9 (1).
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Catherine Sophia Herfeld
University of Zurich
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Ragnar Frisch, thought experiments, utility measurement

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The Role of Narratives in Transferring Rational Choice Models into Political Science

History of Political Economy
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 23 Nov 2022
Alexandra Quack and Catherine Sophia Herfeld
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Zurich
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narratives in science, history of rational choice models, history of political science, narratives in economics

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How Academic Opinion Leaders Shape Scientific Ideas: An Acknowledgment Analysis

Scientometrics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Jan 2023
Malte Doehne and Catherine Sophia Herfeld
University of Zurich and University of Zurich
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Acknowledgments analysis, blockmodeling, diffusion of scientific theories, history of rational choice theories, history of economics, opinion leaders in science

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Explaining Patterns, not Details: Reevaluating Rational Choice Models in Light of Their Explananda

​Journal of Economic Methodology, 25 (2), 179-209, 2018
Posted: 30 Mar 2023
Catherine Sophia Herfeld
University of Zurich

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