Ivan Boldyrev's research while affiliated with Radboud University and other places
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Publications (32)
This paper considers in detail the ontological and normative presuppositions of the state-contingent approach to pricing commodities first introduced by Arrow (Le rôle des valeurs boursières pour la répartition la meilleure des risques. Econométrie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1953) in his model of general equilibrium under...
In the postwar USSR, there were a few scattered research groups engaged in research most closely resembling “Western” mainstream economics. Inspired by the new sciences of the artificial, these groups were able to make important contributions to various fields of economic theory. This article focuses on the story of one group created by the control...
In the wake of Stalin's death, many Soviet scientists saw the opportunity to promote their methods as tools for the engineering of economic prosperity in the socialist state. The mathematician Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) was a key activist in academic politics that led to the increasing acceptance of what emerged as a new scientific persona in t...
Experiments have become part and parcel of today’s economics. Experimental evidence is used to update and to refute economic theories but also helps in formulating new theories or policies. Experimental evidence and (quasi)experimental designs are becoming increasingly popular in many fields of applied economics. The consequences of this transforma...
This article draws conclusions based on an analysis of the relationship between economic ideas and institutional
change in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, so far covering roughly the years from 1971 to 2007. It analyses
the recent debate on economic modernisation in Russian economics. We argue that the relative failure of
transition has to be seen i...
The article was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and supported within the framework of a subsidy granted to the HSE by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Program.
While the history of Cold War social and human sciences has become an immensely productive line of inquiry and has generated some exciting research, a lot remains still to be done in studying more deeply the known stories, venturing into the unknown ones and, in particular, looking in greater detail at the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain. In our ex...
The introduction to the volume "Enacting Dismal Science: New Perspectives on the Performativity of Economics" (2016) observes the drift towards a new understanding of the performativity concept. It seems that the search for a general proof that the one way-link “theory - reality” exists (that was characteristic for the previous research) was recogn...
This paper reconstructs the ontology of finance as it is presented in Kenneth Arrow’s general equilibrium model of contingent commodities. The fundamental notion of modern finance, ‘Arrow securities’ (paying one monetary unit contingent upon a certain future event and nothing otherwise) is considered an elementary Luhmannian code of the economic. T...
In this book, sociologists, philosophers, and economists investigate the conceptual issues around the performativity of economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the latest contributions to the performativity debate the book revives discussion of the fundamental questio...
Research within the history of economic thought has focused only little on the development of economics under dictatorship. This paper attempts to show how a country with a relatively large and internationally established community of social scientists in the 1920s, the Soviet Union, was subjected to repression. We tell this story through the case...
Economic methodologists most often study the relations between models and reality while focusing on the issues of the model's epistemic relevance in terms of its relation to the ‘real world’ and representing the real world in a model. We complement the discussion by bringing the model's constructive mechanisms or self-implementing technologies in p...
Hegel’s philosophy has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book renews the dialogue with Hegel by looking at his legacy as a source of insight and judgement that helps us rethink contemporary economics. This book focuses...
Eine allgemeine Dimension der Performativität ökonomischer Theorie wurde bereits von Keynes gegen Ende seiner General Theory vermerkt: „The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who beli...
This paper explores the implications of the recent revival of Hegel studies for the philosophy of economics. We argue that Hegel’s theory of Objective Spirit anticipates many elements of modern approaches in cognitive sciences and of the philosophy of mind, which adopt an externalist framework. In particular, Hegel pre-empts the theories of social...
In his Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons. Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator, he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between univers...
Niklas Luhmann's (1927–1998) ambitious research project was aimed not only at describing society as a global social system, but it also analyzed various subsystems (including an economic one). The article assesses Luhmann's vision of the economy, summarized mainly in his Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft, wherein he addresses basic economic notions: the...
Research within the history of economic thought has focused only little on the development of economics under dictatorship. This paper attempts to show how a country with a relatively large and internationally established community of social scientists in the 1920s, the Soviet Union, was subjected to repression. We tell this story through the case...
In this paper we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory (GET) in the USSR during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics, only fragmentarily known in the West, give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the Walrasian paradigm to non-market societies, as well as on...
This review discusses the latest textbook on economic methodology. It shows that its authors think of the philosophy of science as primarily the philosophy of “hard”, natural sciences and have not tried to interpret economic theory as a social science. At the same time the book is characterized by its attention towards more recent methodological ap...
This article addresses some recent tendencies in economic methodology defined as a philosophy of science for economics. I review the problem of normative/positive distinction in methodology and argue that normativity in its past forms is intolerable today but is, at the same time, indispensable for methodological inquiry. Using recent texts by Miro...
In his Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluate institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons. Referring to Smith’s Impartial Spectator, he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of Open Impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism a...
This paper explores the implications of the recent revival of Hegel studies for the philosophy of economics. We argue that Hegel’s theory of Objective Spirit anticipates many elements of modern approaches in cognitive sciences and of the philosophy of mind, which adopt an externalist framework. In particular, Hegel pre-empts the theories of social...
Hegel ist als Philosoph des Systems bekannt. Sein System aber unterscheidet sich von denen, die Walter Benjamin in seiner "Erkenntniskritischen Vorrede" zum "Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels" kritisierte. Was Hegel avisierte, war nicht ein Netz von Begriffen als neutralen Instrumenten der Weltbeziehung und Welterschließung. Das ist eher das Entf...
This review article considers the state of the art in the modern economic methodology. The structure of this branch of knowledge is briefly described, as well as its institutional organization. We also carry out a substantial classification of various problems and fields of research. We propose to distinguish two basic perspectives which will deter...
The article justifies the definition of economic ontology (ontology of economics) as a study of the most general features, categories and structure which belong to reality described in economic models. The author distinguishes ontology of science from ontology of economic life (the latter often functions as a substitute for science) and points out...
Citations
... The proponents of the dominant discourse in economics claim to conduct 'positive' or 'objective' economics (cf. Boumans and Davis 2010). In this way, they are indirectly suggesting that any contestations against their type of economics should also be objective, through the methodology of logical positivism. ...
... . More recently, an annual supplement to History of Political Economy, entirely dedicated to the history of economic knowledge under socialism(Düppe and Boldyrev 2019), signals the increasing willingness of our field to take the ideas of economists working under dictatorship (or at least their histories) seriously. ...
... Suzanne Wengle (2015, p. 131) summarises the common position regarding the marginal influence of ideas on politics in Russia by quoting Dmitri Trenin's claim that 'ideas hardly matter [in Russia], while interests reign supreme'. While Zweynert and Boldyrev (2017) identify a vibrant debate and a division between liberal and statist views among the scholarly community, they conclude that the impact of these views on Russian economic policy has been marginal. A similar position is found in the work of Bryan Taylor (2014) and Vladimir Gel'man (2018). ...
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... К их числу наряду с экономистами-математиками (Boldyrev, Kirtchik, 2017) относились специалисты, занимавшиеся критикой западных экономических теорий. Разумеется, многие из них неукоснительно следовали политическим установкам, вытекавшим из логики биполярного противостояния, и не рефлексировали по поводу истинного смысла обличаемых ими концепций. ...
... While several of these countries were integral parts, albeit to various degrees, of the intellectual movements that pioneered modern social science in the early 20 th century, the Cold War significantly complicated international relations in the intellectual realm. Though the Iron Curtain was not nearly as insurmountable as the metaphor suggests (Boldyrev & Kirtchik 2016), there were indeed at times severe constraints to international travel and exchange of ideas, in particular (but not only) crossing the symbolic and material divide between capitalist and socialist societies. Oftentimes, the permeability of people and ideas in East European social science followed the political developments quite closely, as the timing and success of exchange programs such as the one by the US-American Ford Foundation exemplifies (Duller 2021). ...
... In fact, the impact economics has on real world economic institutions and behaviour, how we educate students, organise elderly care, subscribe value in accounting or build expectations in the financial sector, is documented in cases so numerous that there exist different discourses which can be grouped according to the two modes introduced. The discourses of the 'performativity of economics' (Boldyrev and Svetlova, 2016;Callon, 2007;MacKenzie, 2008;Maeße et al., 2016); 'political economy' (Perry and Nölke, 2006;Puehringer et al., 2020); 'economisation' (Callon andÇalışkan, 2010, 2009); and 'Wirkungsforschung' (Ötsch, 2017) describe situations in which economics has changed its subject domain, increasing worries of ideology and consequently often questioning its scientific authorisation. According to this interpretation orthodox economics is an example of a scientific project which was aimed at describing the economy and degenerated into a normative-prescriptive program. ...
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... In Savage(1954/1972, p. 9) we find a definition of a state of the world as a description leaving no relevant aspect of the world undescribed and of events as sets of states. 5 On Arrow securities as a code see in more detail:Boldyrev (2016).Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. Rights reserved. ...
... Earth science can assume performative powers through embedded deliberation by 'piggy-backing' on the performative powers of economics, building on the rich literature on economics as a performative science [27]. As explained in Sect. ...
... Economists formulate the norms for reconfi guring markets ( Garcia-Parpet 2007 ;Holm and Nielsen 2007 ) and set criteria of effi ciency (Breslau 2011(Breslau , 2013; manage identities and produce subjectivities-be it through business education (Ghoshal and Moran 1996 ;Ghoshal 2005 ) or consumer testing (Muniesa 2014 ); they also specify policy agendas and generally play a crucial role in institutional design both by directly intervening and by providing a relevant 'cognitive infrastructure' Friedman 2010 ;Hirschman and Popp Berman 2014 ). Choosing a pension plan in the US pension system with the mechanism of choice devised by experimental economists (Thaler and Sunstein 2008 ); taking part in the auctions following the rules formulated by the teams of game theorists and economic experimentalists (Guala 2001 ;Nik-Khah 2008 ;Boldyrev 2012Boldyrev , 2013; investing in index funds as embodiments of effi cient market hypothesis in fi nancial economics (MacKenzie 2006 ); establishing incentive systems inspired by microeconomic theory (Dix 2014 ; Herrmann-Pillath, this volume); confronting people with questions they never thought of before and thus constructing their preferences (Kahneman and Tversky 2000 ; Muniesa 2014 ); using a micro-credit scheme in Bangladesh or India on the terms proposed by experimental development economists (Banerjee and Dufl o 2011 ;Favereau and Brisset 2013 ;Davis 2013 )-all these actions suggest the ways economics helps in creating its own realities and attempts to make the agents, material infrastructures, and knowledge converge and mutually stabilize each other. Small wonder that in the postcrisis neoliberal era, the role of economists in facilitating (or neglecting) major economic instabilities sparks controversies (Krugman 2009 ;Hodgson 2009 ;Caballero 2010 ;Mirowski and Nik-Khah 2013 ). ...
... He taught at the Institute of Red Professors (IKP) where his ideas were debated. Rubin's Essays on Value (Rubin [1923] 1972) were published in 1923 and his A History of Economic Thought ([1929] 1979) in 1926 and in an expanded edition in 1929 (Boldyrev and Kragh 2015). Whether Rubin had access to or was involved in the translation of the Grundrisse is apparently unknown, but it certainly seems likely he was at the very least aware of it. ...
