Books

Boumans, M. & Davis, J. (2016). Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science. Second ed. Palgrave Macmillan.

Boumans, M. (2015). Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics. Oxford University Press. webpage

Boumans, M., & Davis, J. (2010). Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science. First ed. Palgrave Macmillan.

Boumans, M. (2005). How Economists Model the World into Numbers. Routledge. doi 10.4324/9780203324073

Boumans, M. (1992). A Case of Limited Physics Transfer. Thesis Publishers.

Edited volumes and special issues

Boumans, M., Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, C., Dechaux, P. & Sergi, F. (eds) (2023). The Computerization of Economics: Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics. Œconomia 13 (3). doi 10.4000/oeconomia.13846

Biddle, J., & Boumans, M. (eds) (2021). Exploring the History of Statistical Inference in Economics. History of Political Economy 53 (S1). webpage

Boumans, M., & Duarte, P.G. (eds) (2019). The History of Macroeconometric Modeling. History of Political Economy 51 (3). webpage

Boumans, M., & Chao, H-K. (eds) (2018). A Symposium on Mary Morgan: Curiosity, Imagination and Surprise. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 36 (B). doi 10.1108/S0743-4154201836B

Boumans, M., Hon, G., & Petersen, A. (eds) (2014). Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice. Pickering & Chatto. doi 10.4324/9781315654577

Martini, C., & Boumans, M. (eds.) (2014). Experts and Consensus in Social Science. Springer US. doi 10.1007/978-3-319-08551-7

Boumans, M. (ed.) (2013). Philosophy of Science in Practice. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 44 (2). webpage

Boumans, M., & Klaes, M. (eds) (2013). Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes. Edward Elgar. webpage

Ankeny, R., Chang, H., Boumans, M., & Boon, M. (eds) (2011). Philosophy of Science in Practice. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (3). webpage

Boumans, M., Dupont-Kieffer, A., & Qin, D. (eds) (2011). Histories on Econometrics. History of Political Economy 43 (S1). webpage

Boumans, M. (ed.) (2007). Measurement in Economics: A Handbook. Academic Press. webpage

Bod, R., Boon, M., & Boumans, M. (eds) (2006). Applying Science. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (1). webpage

Boumans, M., & Beaulieu, A. (eds) (2004). Objects of Objectivity. Social Epistemology 18 (2-3). webpage

Journal articles

Boumans, M., Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, C., Dechaux, P. & Sergi, F. (2023). The computerization of economics: Three lessons for economics: Introduction to the Special Issue. Œconomia 13 (3), 637-655. doi 10.4000/oeconomia.15684

Boumans, M., & Morgan, M.S. (2023). Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 101, 30-39. doi 10.1016/j.shpsa.2023.08.007

Boumans, M. (2023). Materials selection in economic modeling. Synthese 201 (4). doi 10.1007/s11229-023-04120-7

Boumans, M. (2023). 2022 HES Presidential address: The history of economics as economic self-portraiture. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45 (3), 367 - 383. doi 10.1017/S1053837222000700

Boumans, M. (2021). Shaping the phenomena. Revue de Philosophie Économique 22 (1), 85-105. doi 10.3917/rpec.221.0085.

Biddle, J., & Boumans, M. (2021). Exploring the history of statistical inference in economics: Introduction. History of Political Economy 53 (S1), 1-24. doi 10.1215/00182702-9414747

Boumans, M. (2021). Pictorial statistics. History of Political Economy 53 (S1), 207-226. doi 10.1215/00182702-9414846

Boumans, M. (2021). Flattening the curve is flattening the complexity of covid-19. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (1), 1-15. doi 10.1007/s40656-021-00374-x

Boumans, M. (2021). Retreat from normativism. Journal of Economic Methodology 28 (1), 60-66. doi 10.1080/1350178X.2020.1868773

Boumans, M. (2020). The engineering tools that shaped the rational expectations revolution. History of Political Economy 52 (S1), 143-167. doi 10.1215/00182702-8717960

Boumans, M. (2020). Visualizing ignorance. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal 14 (2), 331-345. doi 10.1215/18752160-8538811

Boumans, M. (2019). Survey of recent work in the history of econometrics: A witness report. History of Political Economy 51 (5), 805-826. doi 10.1215/00182702-7803679

Boumans, M., & Duarte, P.G. (2019). The history of macroeconometric modeling: An introduction. History of Political Economy 51 (3), 391-400. doi 10.1215/00182702-7551828

Boumans, M., & De Marchi, N. (2018). Models, measurement, and “universal patterns”: Jan Tinbergen and development planning without theory. History of Political Economy 50 (S1), 231-248. doi 10.1215/00182702-7033956

Boumans, M. (2016). Models of clutter. Studia Metodologiczne 2016 (36), 27-41. doi 10.14746/sm.2016.36.2

Boumans, M. (2016). Methodological institutionalism as a transformation of structural econometrics. Review of Political Economy 28 (3), 417–425. doi 10.1080/09538259.2016.1154752

Boumans, M. (2016). Suppes’s outlines of an empirical measurement theory. Journal of Economic Methodology 23 (3), 305-315. doi 10.1080/1350178X.2016.1189124

Boumans, M. (2016). Graph-based inductive reasoning. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 59, 1-10. doi 10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.05.001

Boumans, M. (2016). Methodological ignorance: A comment on field experiments and methodological intolerance. Journal of Economic Methodology 23 (2), 139-146. doi 10.1080/1350178X.2016.1158947

Boumans, M. (2014). Haavelmo's epistemology for an inexact science. History of Political Economy 46 (2), 211-229. doi 10.1215/00182702-2647477

Boumans, M., & Leonelli, S. (2013). Introduction: On the philosophy of science in practice. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 44 (2), 259-261. doi 10.1007/s10838-013-9232-6

Boumans, M. (2013). The role of models in measurement outside the laboratory. Measurement 46 (8), 2908–2912. doi 10.1016/j.measurement.2013.04.041

Boumans, M. (2013). Model-based Type B uncertainty evaluations of measurement towards more objective evaluation strategies. Measurement 46 (9), 3775–3777. doi 10.1016/j.measurement.2013.04.003

Boumans, M., & Sent, E-M. (2013). A Nobel Prize for empirical macroeconomics: Assessing the contributions of Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims. Review of Political Economy 25 (1), 39-56. doi 10.1080/09538259.2013.737122

Boumans, M. (2012). Mark Blaug (1927-2011). An unrepentant Lakatosian. History of Economic Ideas 20 (1), 11-24.

Boumans, M. (2012). Observations in a hostile environment: Morgenstern on the accuracy of economic observations. History of Political Economy 44 (S1), 114-136. doi 10.1215/00182702-1631806

Ankeny, R., Chang, H., Boumans, M., & Boon, M. (2011). Introduction: Philosophy of science in practice. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 1 (3), 303–307. doi 10.1007/s13194-011-0036-4

Boumans, M., & Dupont-Kieffer, A. (2011). A history of the histories of econometrics. History of Political Economy 43 (S1), 5-31. doi 10.1215/00182702-1158781

Boumans, M. (2011). The two-model problem in rational decision making. Rationality and Society 23 (3), 371-400. doi 10.1177/1043463111414123

Boumans, M. (2011). Hoe economen begrijpen. Wijsgerig Perspectief 51 (2), 22-31.

Chang, H., Boumans, M., Boon, M., & Ankeny, R. (2010). Second biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (University of Minnesota, 18–20 June 2009). Journal for General Philosophy of Science 41 (1), 233-235. doi 10.1007/s10838-010-9126-9

Boumans, M. (2010). The problem of passive observation. History of Political Economy 42 (1), 75-110. doi 10.1215/00182702-2009-063

Boumans, M. (2009). Dynamizing stability. History of Political Economy 41 (S1), 127-146. doi 10.1215/00182702-2009-020

Boumans, M. (2008). Battle in the planning office: Field experts versus normative statisticians. Social Epistemology 22 (4), 389-404. doi 10.1080/02691720802559453

Bod, R., Boon, M., & Boumans, M. (2006). Introduction to the symposium ‘Applying Science’. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 20 (1), 1-3. doi 10.1080/02698590600640943

Boumans, M. (2005). Measurement outside the laboratory. Philosophy of Science 72 (5), 850-863. doi 10.1086/508103

Boumans, M. (2005). Measurement in economic systems. Measurement 38 (4), 275–284. doi 10.1016/j.measurement.2005.09.003

Boumans, M. (2004). The reliability of an instrument. Social Epistemology 18 (2-3), 215-246. doi 10.1080/0269172042000249309

Boumans, M., & Beaulieu, A. (2004). Foreword to ‘objects of objectivity’. Social Epistemology 18 (2-3), 105-108. doi 10.1080/0269172042000293382

Boumans, M. (2003). How to design Galilean fall experiments in economics. Philosophy of Science 70 (2), 308-329. doi 10.1086/375470

Boumans, M. (2001). Fisher's instrumental approach to index numbers. History of Political Economy 33 (S1), 313-344. doi 10.1215/00182702-33-Suppl_1-313

Boumans, M. (2001). Measure for measure: How economists model the world into numbers. Social Research 68 (2), 427-453.

Boumans, M., & Morgan, M. (2001). Ceteris paribus conditions: Materiality and the application of economic theories. Journal of Economic Methodology 8 (1), 11-26. doi 10.1080/13501780010022794

Boumans, M. (1999). Representation and stability in testing and measuring rational expectations. Journal of Economic Methodology 6 (3), 381-402. doi 10.1080/13501789900000024

Boumans, M. (1997). Lucas and artificial worlds. History of Political Economy 29 (S1), 63-90. doi 10.1215/00182702-1997-suppl_1005

Boumans, M. (1995). Tinbergen's cycle: An arithmetic error? Econometric Theory 11 (2), 389-391. doi 10.1017/S0266466600009269

Boumans, M. (1995). Frisch on testing of business cycle theories. Journal of Econometrics 67 (1), 129-147. doi 10.1016/0304-4076(94)01630-I

Boumans, M. (1993). Paul Ehrenfest and Jan Tinbergen: A case of limited physics transfer. History of Political Economy 25 (S1), 131-156. doi 10.1215/00182702-1993-suppl_1019

Boumans, M. (1990). De slinger van Tinbergen. Tijdschrift voor Politieke Ekonomie 13, 50-65.

Boumans, M. (1989). De constructie van de samenleving: Tinbergen en de vroege planning. Beleid en Maatschappij 16, 230-245.

Book chapters

Boumans, M. (2023). Explanation and forecasting. In J. Jespersen, V. Chick, and B. Tieben (eds), Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology (pp. 266-275). Routledge. doi 10.4324/9781315745992-28

Boumans, M. & Herfeld, C. (2023). Progress in economics. In Y. Shan (ed.), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (pp. 224-244). Routlegde. doi 10.4324/9781003165859-15

Boumans, M. (2023). Reflections without rules: Reflections about rules after twenty years. In B. Caldwell, J. Davis, U. Mäki & E-M. Sent (eds), Methodology and History of Economics: Reflections with and without rules (pp. 25-36). Routledge. doi 10.4324/9781003266051-4

Boumans, M., & Leonelli, S. (2020). From dirty data to tidy facts: Clustering practices in plant phenomics and business cycle analysis. In S. Leonelli & N. Tempini (eds), Data Journeys in the Sciences (pp. 79-101). Springer Nature. doi 10.1007/978-3-030-37177-7

Boumans, M. (2019). Simulation and economic methodology. In W. Dolfsma, D.W. Hands & R. McMaster (eds), History, Methodology and Identity For a 21st Century Social Economics (pp. 41-50). Routledge. 

Boumans, M. (2019). Econometrics: the Keynes–Tinbergen controversy. In R.W. Dimand & H. Hagemann (eds), The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes (pp. 283-289). Edward Elgar. 

Boumans, M. (2018). Introduction to the symposium “Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise”. In L. Fiorito, S. Scheall & C.E. Suprinyak (eds), Including a Symposium on Mary Morgan: Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise (pp. 3-10). Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 36 (B). Emerald. doi 10.1108/S0743-41542018000036B001

Boumans, M. (2018). Suppes’s outlines of an empirical measurement theory. In J.B. Davis & D.W. Hands (eds), Patrick Suppes, Economics, and Economic Methodology (pp. 69-79). Routledge. 

Boumans, M. (2016). Econometrics. In G. Faccarello & H. Kurz (eds), Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis: Developments in Major Fields of Economics, Vol. 3 (pp. 106-116). Edward Elgar. doi 10.4337/9781785365065.00014

Boumans, M. (2016). Friedman and the Cowles Commission. In R. A. Cord & J. D. Hammond (eds), Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy (pp. 585-604). Oxford University Press. 

Boumans, M. (2015). Sims, Christopher Albert (born 1942). In S. Durlauf & L. Blume (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Online Edition. Palgrave Macmillan. doi 10.1057/9780230226203.3881

Boumans, M., & Hon, G. (2014). Introduction: Error and uncertainty in scientific practice. In M. Boumans, G. Hon & A. Petersen (eds), Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice (pp. 1-12). Pickering & Chatto.

Boumans, M. (2014). Model-based consensus. In C. Martini & M. Boumans (eds), Experts and Consensus in Social Science (pp. 49-69). Springer US. doi 10.1007/978-3-319-08551-7_3

Boumans, M., & Martini, C. (2014). Introduction: Experts and consensus in social science. In C. Martini & M. Boumans (eds), Experts and Consensus in Social Science (pp. 1-13). Springer US. doi 10.1007/978-3-319-08551-7_1

Boumans, M. (2013). Econometrics: Methodological issues. In B. Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (pp. 221-223). Sage.

Boumans, M. (2013). An unrepentant Lakatosian. In M. Boumans & M. Klaes (eds), Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes (pp. 177-190). Edward Elgar. 

Boumans, M., & Klaes, M. (2013). Introduction. In M. Boumans & M. Klaes (eds), Mark Blaug: Rebel with Many Causes (pp. 1-8). Edward Elgar. 

Boumans, M. (2013). The regrettable loss of mathematical molding in econometrics. In H-K. Chao, S-T. Chen & R. Millstein (eds), Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics (pp. 61-81). Springer. doi 10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9_4

Boumans, M. (2012). Measurement in Economics. In U. Mäki (ed.), Philosophy of Economics (pp. 395-423). Elsevier North-Holland.

Boumans, M. (2012). Mathematics as quasi-matter to build models as instruments. In D. Dieks, W. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, M. Stöltzner & M. Weber (eds), Probabilities, Laws, and Structures (pp. 307-318). Springer. doi 10.1007/978-94-007-3030-4

Boumans, M. (2012). Modeling strategies for measuring phenomena in- and outside the laboratory. In H. de Regt, S. Hartmann & S. Okasha (eds), EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009 (pp. 1-11). Springer. doi 10.1007/978-94-007-2404-4

Boumans, M. (2012). Visualisations for understanding complex economic systems. In C. Bissell & C. Dillon (eds), Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing: Mathematical and other Modelling in Engineering and Technology (pp. 145-165). Springer. doi 10.1007/978-3-642-25209-9

Boumans, M. (2011). Vertrouwen in economische modellen. In H. Dijstelbloem & R. Hagendijk (eds), Onzekerheid Troef? Het betwiste gezag van de wetenschap (pp. 115-136). Van Gennep.

Boumans, M. (2009). Understanding in economics: Gray-box models. In H. de Regt, S. Leonelli & K. Eigner (eds), Scientific Understanding: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 210-229). University of Pittsburgh Press.

Boumans, M. (2008). Measurement. In S. Durlauf & L. Blume (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan. doi 10.1057/9780230226203.1075

Boumans, M. (2008). Measurement and error problems (1800-1900): Buys Ballot and Landré’s critique on the method of least squares. In I.H. Stamhuis, P.M.M. Klep & J.G.S.J. van Maarseveen (eds), The Statistical Mind in Modern Society. The Netherlands 1850-1940: Volume II: Statistics and Scientific Work (pp. 179-197). Aksant. 

Boumans, M. (2007). Invariance and calibration. In M. Boumans (ed.), Measurement in Economics: A Handbook (pp. 231-248). Academic Press. 

Boumans, M. (2007). Introduction. In M. Boumans (ed.), Measurement in Economics: A Handbook (pp. 3-18). Academic Press. 

Boumans, M. (2006). The difference between answering a ‘why’ question and answering a ‘how much’ question. In J. Lenhard, G. Küppers & T. Shinn (eds), Simulation (pp. 107-124). Springer. doi 10.1007/1-4020-5375-4_7

Boumans, M. (2005). Economics, Strategies in social sciences. In K. Kempf-Leonard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Volume 1 (pp. 751-760). Elsevier. doi 10.1016/B0-12-369398-5/00274-7

Boumans, M. (2004). Measuring instruments in economics. In S.V. Muravyov (ed.), Proceedings 10th IMEKO TC7 International Symposium on Advances of Measurement Science (pp. 28-35). Tomsk Polytechnic University.

Morgan, M., & Boumans, M. (2004). Secrets hidden by two-dimensionality: The economy as a hydraulic machine. In S. de Chadarevian & N. Hopwood (eds), Models (pp. 369-401). Stanford University Press.

Boumans, M. (2004). Models in economics. In J. Davis, A. Marciano & J. Runde (eds), The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy (pp. 260-282). Edward Elgar.

Boumans, M. (2004). Truth versus precision. In P. Hájek, L. Valdés-Villanueva & D. Westerståhl (eds), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress (pp. 257-269). King's College Publications. 

Boumans, M. (2003). Tinbergen’s business-cycle analysis. In D. Ladiray (ed.), Papers and Proceedings of the Colloquium on the History of Business Cycle Analysis (pp. 109-125). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Boumans, M. (2002). Calibration. In B. Snowdon, & H. Vane (eds), An Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics (pp. 105-109). Edward Elgar.

Boumans, M. (2002). Calibration of models in experiments. In L. Magnani & N. Nersessian (eds), Model-Based Reasoning: Science, Technology, Values (pp. 75-93). Springer US. doi 10.1007/978-1-4615-0605-8

Boumans, M. (2001). A macroeconomic approach to complexity. In A. Zellner, H. Keuzenkamp & M. McAleer (eds), Simplicity, Inference and Modelling: Keeping it Sophisticatedly Simple (pp. 73-82). Cambridge University Press.

Boumans, M. (2000). Jan Tinbergen. In B. Reinalda (ed.), Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland (Vol. 8, pp. 296-301). Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis.

Boumans, M. (1999). Built-in justification. In M. Morgan & M. Morrison (eds), Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural and Social Science (pp. 66-96). Cambridge University Press. 

Boumans, M. (1998). Tinbergen. In J. Davis, D.W. Hands & U. Mäki (eds), The Handbook of Economic Methodology (pp. 501-504). Edward Elgar.

Professional papers

Boumans, M. (2023). De staatsdeelneming past bij een neoliberale agenda. Economisch Statistische Berichten 108 (4824), 374-376. webpage

Boumans, M. (2022). Historicisme en zijn monsters. TPEdigitaal 16 (2), 72-82. webpage

Boumans, M. (2021). Historicism and Its Monsters. Inaugural Address.

Boumans, M. (2021). Over de betekenis van Pierson in de geschiedenis van de economische discipline. TPEdigitaal 15 (2), 42-52. webpage

Boumans, M. (2021). Economische ideeën bepalend voor beleidspraktijk: een geschiedenis. Economisch Statistische Berichten 106 (4795S), 10-15. webpage

Boumans, M. (2020). Een geschiedenis van vertrouwen: Lessen voor de accountancysector. Economisch Statistische Berichten 105 (4787S), 21-25. webpage

Boumans, M. (2019). Een lange geschiedenis van het meten van welvaart. Economisch Statistische Berichten 104 (4772S), 53-56. webpage

Book reviews

Boumans, M. (2023). Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing, edited by Martin Bru¨ckner, Sandy Isenstadt, and Sarah Wasserman. Isis 114 (4), 867-868. doi 10.1086/727235

Boumans, M. (2023). The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach, by Peter Galbács. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45 (3), 535-537. doi 10.1017/S1053837222000402

Boumans, M. (2023). The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science, by Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng. History of Political Economy 55 (4), 795-797. doi 10.1215/00182702-10621040

Boumans, M. (2020). Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, by William Deringer. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 42 (1), 136-138. doi 10.1017/S1053837219000105

Boumans, M. (2019). A critique of the history of economic ideas. Review Essay on Measuring utility: From the marginal revolution to behavioral economics, by Ivan Moscati. Journal of Economic Methodology 26 (4), 385–388. doi 10.1080/1350178X.2019.1647600

Boumans, M. (2017). A Few Hares to Chase. The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips, by Alan Bollard. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 24 (5), 1113-1116. doi 10.1080/09672567.2017.1366124

Boumans, M. (2017). The Idea of History in Constructing Economics, by Michael H. Turk. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 39 (3), 405-406. doi 10.1017/S1053837216000614

Boumans, M. (2016). Finding Equilibrium. Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit, by T. Düppe and E.R. Weintraub. History of Economic Ideas 23 (1), 192-195.

Boumans, M. (2016). A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences, by R. Backhouse and P. Fontaine. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 38 (4), 507-509. doi 10.1017/S105383721600095X

Boumans, M. (2016). Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One, by Meghnad Desai. Business History Review 90 (1), 188-191. doi 10.1017/S0007680516000325

Boumans, M. (2015). Experiments in Practice, by A. Schwarz. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 46 (1), 237-240. doi 10.1007/s10838-014-9281-5

Boumans, M. (2015). With such a friend of the history of economics, who needs enemies? Review of: Defending the History of Economic Thought, by S. Kates. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 37 (1), 139-144. doi 10.1017/S1053837214000789

Boumans, M. (2015). The Universe in Zero Words: The Story of Mathematics as Told Through Equations, by D. Mackenzie. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 20 (5), 558-559. doi 10.1080/10848770.2015.1028010

Boumans, M. (2015). Model Building in Economics. Its Purposes and Limitations, by L.A. Boland. Œconomia 5 (2), 233-236.

Boumans, M. (2014). GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, by D. Coyle. Business History Review 88 (4), 799-801. doi 10.1017/S0007680514000816

Boumans, M. (2014). The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist, by Z. Sng. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 19 (6), 785-786. doi 10.1080/10848770.2014.949943

Boumans, M. (2013). The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology, edited by J.B. Davis and D.W. Hands. Œconomia 3 (2), 319-322.

Boumans, M. (2010). Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines, by S.E. Kellert. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 32 (4), 542-544.

Boumans, M. (2009). The Invisible Hand in Economics. How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences, by N.E. Aydinonat. History of Economic Ideas 17 (3), 141-144.

Boumans, M. (2008). A review essay of Philippe Le Gall’s A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models. In W. Samuels, J. Biddle & R. Emmett (eds), A Research Annual (pp. 139-146). Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 26 (1). Emerald. doi 10.1016/S0743-4154%2808%2926013-X

Boumans, M. (2007). The Experiment in the History of Economics, edited by P. Fontaine and R. Leonard. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 29 (2), 263-265. doi 10.1080/10427710701336107

Boumans, M. (2005). On bridges. Review of B.P. Stigum, Econometrics and the Philosophy of Economics: Theory-Data Confrontations in Economics. Economica 72 (285), 180–181. doi 10.1111/j.0013-0427.2005.408_2.x

Boumans, M. (2005). Causality, Models, Reasoning, and Inference, by J. Pearl. Review of Social Economy 63 (1), 129-135. doi 10.1080/0034676052000344718

Boumans, M. (2004). Marshall’s Tendencies: What Can Economists Know?, by J. Sutton. Economica 71 (281), 177-178.

Boumans, M. (2003). Causality in Macroeconomics, by K.D. Hoover. History of Political Economy 35 (3), 564-566. doi 10.1215/00182702-35-3-564

Boumans, M. (2003). How Economics Became a Mathematical Science, by E.R. Weintraub. Philosophy of Science 70 (4), 852-855.

Boumans, M. (2003). A.W.H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective, edited by R. Leeson. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 25 (3), 372-376. doi 10.1017/S1053837200008038

Boumans, M. (2002). Pragmatic view on empirical modeling. C.W.J. Granger’s Empirical Modeling in Economics, Specification and Evaluation. Journal of Economic Methodology 9 (1), 103-106. doi 10.1080/1780110120109a

Boumans, M. (1999). Great Economists since Keynes; An Introduction to the Lives and Works of One Hundred Modern Economists, by M. Blaug. De Economist 147 (3), 387-388. doi 10.1023/A:1017227012527

Boumans, M. (1999). Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers, by R.B. Ekelund and R.F. Hebert. EH.Net.

Boumans, M. (1995). Briefwisseling van Nicolaas Gerard Pierson 1839-1909, Volume I: 1851-1884; Volume II: 1885-1897; Volume III: 1898-1909; Volume IV: Bijlagen, edited by J.G.S.J. van Maarseveen. De Economist 143 (1), 77–100. doi 10.1007/BF01388356

Working papers

Boumans, M. (2023). Materials Selection in Economic Modeling. LES USE WP 23-03. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M., & Herfeld, C. (2022). Progress in Economics. LEG USE WP 22-01. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M. (2020). Flattening the Curve is Flattening the Complexity of Covid-19. LEG USE WP 20-05. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M. (2020). Pictorial Statistics. LEG USE WP 20-03. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M. (2019). The Engineering Tools That Shaped the Rational Expectations Revolution. LEG USE WP 19-23. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M., & Leonelli, S. (2019). From Dirty Data to Tidy Facts: Clustering Practices in Plant Phenomics and Business Cycle Analysis. LEG USE WP 19-22. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M. (2019). Visualising Ignorance. LEG USE WP 19-12. Utrecht University.

Boumans, M. (2018). Survey on Recent Work in the History of Econometrics: A Witness Report. LEG USE WP 18-10. Utrecht University.

Podcast

Boumans, M. (2019). Aflevering 5 De Telgen van Tinbergen. Digital or Visual Products, ESB online. webpage

Boumans, M. (2019). Economisch experimenteren. Radio Swammerdam. webpage