Guest Lecture : David Philippy

Economists in the Household: A Study of American Consumption after 1923

David Philippy est un historien de l'économie, il est actuellement Fellow-in-Residence à CY AS, invité par le laboratoire AGORA. Il est membre associé au Centre Walras-Pareto (Lausanne).

While today consumption is considered a central subject of economic analysis, the history of its study by economists reveals a puzzling neglect: For much of the discipline’s history, consumption was considered “too commonplace to excite curiosity.” Yet, by the early 20th century, there emerged in the US a field called “the economics of consumption” with the declared objective of building a “proper” theory of consumption. One of the key features of this cohort was that it was essentially composed by female economists and "home economists," whose aim was to “fill the gap” left by male economists. By the 1920s, Chicago economist Hazel Kyrk’s Theory of Consumption (1923) had formed a theoretical epicenter that structured this new field. By investigating the intellectual debates that followed Kyrk’s Theory, this research wishes to contribute to a better understanding of how subjects of study emerge in the history of science and highlight the crucial contribution of women economists at the frontiers of the economics discipline. 

Date : 4 avril 2023 de 12h30 à 14h00

La guest lecture hybride est organisée en présence à l'Auditorium de la MIR à Neuville-sur-Oise et à distance sur Zoom.

Pour participer à la guest lecture à distance, connectez-vous sur Zoom :  https://cyu-fr.zoom.us/j/96487189480

ID réunion : 964 8718 9480

La vidéo sera publiée sur la chaîne YouTube de CY AS