Degrees

PhD Economics (1992), University of Amsterdam

MSc Mathematics (1988), Delft University of Technology

Teaching qualifications

Senior Kwalificatie Onderwijs (SKO) (2016) (Dutch advanced qualification for science education)

Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs (BKO) (2014) (Dutch qualification for science education)

First degree teaching qualification in mathematics (1988)

Research Fellowships

TKI Fellow, Utrecht University School of Economics (since 2015)

Senior Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, Durham, NC (September–December 2012)

Tinbergen Institute fellow (2002-2015)

NAKE fellow (Netherlands Network of Economics) (2002-2010)

Visiting Scholar, project The Nature of Evidence: How Well Do 'Facts' Travel?, LSE Department of Economic History (2006-2008)

Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) (2001-2002)

Research associate, LSE Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Science (since 1995)

Employment History

Professor History of Economics, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University (since 2019)

Associate professor History and Methodology of Economics, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University (2015-2019)

Visiting professor, Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (February 2016, February-March 2019)

Visiting professor, Department of Philosophy, Bayreuth University (October 2013)

Visiting associate professor, Department of Economics, Duke University (September-December 2012)

Associate professor History and Methodology of Economics, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2012-2015)

Associate professor History and Methodology of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam (2003-2015)

Assistant professor History and Methodology of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam (1992-2002)

Consultant economics library, University of Amsterdam (1994-1998)

Extraordinary employee Centrum voor Bedrijfsontwikkeling, Rotterdam (1991)

Researcher History and Methodology of Economics, Tinbergen Institute and Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam (1988-1992)

Teacher mathematics, Polytechnische Faculteit, Hogeschool Rotterdam (1988)

Teacher mathematics, Erasmiaans Gymnasium Rotterdam (1988)

Student-assistant Methodology, Department of Mathematics, Delft University of Technology (1987)

Professional Activities

Head of Section Applied Economics

Coordinator double bachelor mathematics and economics

Member Advisory Board Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT)

Academic Activities

A. Invited lectures and conference presentations (last five years)

Libertarian Paternalism 30 years after Heuristics and Biases. Roundtable discussion ‘2 Decades of Libertarian Paternalism – what’s ahead?’  Behavioural Transformations 2023 Conference. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. May 16, 2023.

Analysis without theory. How the statistical research group shaped Milton Friedman’s economic methodology. 2023 HOPE Conference, Economists at War: How WW2 Changed Economics (and Vice-Versa). Duke University, USA. April 29, 2023.

Shaping the phenomena. Invited seminar. Ghent-Brussels Seminars in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. March 16, 2023.

Shaping the phenomena. Invited lecture. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. November 23, 2022.

Do you see it this way? Visualising as a tool of sense-making. Workshop: The Epistemic Role of Narratives in Science. University of Zurich. September 2, 2022.

The history of economics as economic self-portraiture. HES Presidential Address. 49th Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society. June 18, 2022.

Historicism and its monsters. Inaugural address. Utrecht University. December 9, 2021.

Francis Galton’s pictorial statistics: The eugenic origins of ethnic profiling. ASE-HES session. ASSA 2021. Online meeting. January 3, 2021.

Over de betekenis van Pierson in de geschiedenis van de economische discipline. Voordracht bij de uitreiking van de Pierson Penning. Online. December 16, 2020.

Pictorial statistics. HOPE 2020 conference: History of Statistical Inference in Economics. Online meeting. April 23-26, 2020.

Simulation and economic methodology. Methodology and Social Economics for the 21st Century. ASE-INEM session. ASSA 2020. San Diego, USA. January 3, 2020.

Tinbergen als wetenschapper. De nalatenschap van Jan Tinbergen. Nederlandse Economendag. De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL. November 1, 2019.

Rationality, Information Processing and Filters. HOPE 2019 conference: Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures. Duke University, USA. April 5-6, 2019 (webex participation).

Vision and visualization in economics. Cercle d‘Épistémologie Économique, Centre d’économie de la Sorbonne. Paris, France. February 14, 2019.

This Looks Right. Culture of Economic Expertise. International Workshop. Polish Economic Institute, Warsaw, Poland. January 25, 2019.

Subjective elements of introspection and value judgment. Wie politisch ist die Ökonomik? Seminar. Universität Siegen, Germany. October 16, 2018.

Vision and Visualisation. EIPE Workshop on Modelling. Erasmus University Rotterdam. June 29, 2018.

GDP. Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid. Directie Arbeidsmarkt en Sociaal-Economische Aangelegenheden. The Hague, NL. April 16, 2018.

B. Societies, organizations and networks

Past-President HES (2021-2023), President of the HES (2019-2021), Vice-President of the History of Economics Society (2017-2019)

Chair Search committee Journal of Economic Methodology new editorial team (2018)

Member of History of Economics Society Reform Committee (2015-2016)

Advisory board member ERC grant Data Science, University of Exeter (since 2014)

Advisory board member, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (since 2014)

Board member, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Wetenschapsfilosofie (2010-2021)

Member of team (C) Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences of The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, an ESF Research Networking Programme (2008-2013)

Co-programme leader (with John Davis), History and Methodology of Economics, University of Amsterdam (2006-2012)

Member organisation committee, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (2005-2012)

Board member, Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology (2004-2015)

Board member, manager membership directory, INEM (International Network for Economic Method) (2004-2009)

C. Editorships

Co-editor (with Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba, Canada), Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2008-2013)

Associate editor, The Journal of Economic Methodology (2005-2011)

Member editorial board, Œconomia (since 2020)

Member advisory board, History of Political Economy (2006-2008, 2015-2021)

Member editorial board, Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2013-2019)

Member editorial board, The Journal of Economic Methodology (since 2012)

Member advisory board, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (since 2008)

Member scientific committee, Revue de Philosophie Économique (since 2007)

D. Doctoral Dissertations Supervising and Supervised as Co-promotor:

Sebastiaan Tieleman, Validation: A Window into Economic Practice. A Study into the Practice of Macroeconomic Modeling. Promotion date: September 29, 2023.

Merve Burnazoglu, Inequalities Beyond the Average Man: The Political Economy of Identity-Based Stratification Mechanisms in Markets and Policy. Promotion date: March 28, 2023.

Ricardo F. Crespo, Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics: Capacities and Capabilities. Promotion date: September 7, 2011.

Peter Rodenburg, Measurement strategies of unemployment. Promotion date: July 5, 2006.

Hsiang-Ke Chao, Representation and Structure: The Methodology of Econometric Models of Consumption. Promotion date: December 12, 2002.

E. Organization of conferences, workshops, symposia, and sessions at conferences (last five years)

Workshop ‘Fact, Fake and Fiction.’ Lorentz Center, Leiden University, NL. February 5 – 9, 2024.

48th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society. Utrecht University, NL. Virtual conference. December 9-12, 2021.

47th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society. Virtual conference. June 17-20, 2020.

HOPE 2020 conference: History of Statistical Inference in Economics, co-organized with Jeff Biddle. Online meeting. April 23-26, 2020.

Member scientific committee of ‘Measurement at the Crossroads 2020,’ Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy. 29 June – 1 July, 2020.

Member scientific committee ‘The Soul of Economics,’ University of Zurich, Switzerland. September 9-11, 2019.

Curiosity, Imagination, and Surprise, Descartes Centre, Utrecht University, NL. September 1-2, 2017.

The Real World Perspective: Economics Education in the 21th Century. Utrecht University School of Economics, NL. June 7, 2017.

History of Macro-econometric Modeling, Utrecht University, NL. April 6-7, 2017.

F. Ph.D. and habilitation committees and (pre-)examiner

December 2023. PhD defense of Marius Alexander Kuster, ‘The Great Variety of The Living Economy: German Economic Thought and Biological Analogy (1875-1936).’ Supervisor: H. Maas. Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

October 2023. PhD defense of Jan Middendorp, 'J. Zijlstra en H.J. Witteveen: Van Denken naar Doen. Economische Theorie in Politiek en Beleid (1945-1982).' Promotors: H.B.J.B. Maas and M. Lindenboom. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL.

October 2022. PhD defense of Robert Mróz, 'Models, Laws, and Evidence – Philosophy of Causal Research in Macroeconomics.' Supervisor Lukasz Hardt. University of Warsaw, Poland.

June 2022. PhD defense of Lucía Eugenia Rossel Flores, 'A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Tax Reform: From Politics to Human Behavior.' Promotors: B. Unger and J. Ferwerda. Utrecht University, NL.

October 2021. PhD defense of Arthur Brackmann Netto, 'Experiments in the Armchair: A History of Microeconometrics and Program Evaluation at Princeton.' Supervisor: P.G. Duarte. University of São Paulo, Brazil.

September 2021. PhD defense of Peter Gerbrands, 'Tax Dynamics and Money Laundering. Simulating Policy Reforms in a Complex System.' Promotors: B. Unger and J. Ferwerda. Utrecht University, NL.

June 2021. PhD defense of Chung-Tang Cheng, 'The Microeconometrics of Household Behaviour: Building the Foundations, 1920-1960.' Supervisors: M.S. Morgan and J. Wells. London School of Economics, UK.

November 2019. PhD defense of Tim van der Valk, 'Household Finance in France and the Netherlands, 1960-2000.' Promotors: C.J.M. Kool and J.P.B. Jonker. Utrecht University, NL.

October 2018. PhD defense of Murat Kotan, 'Human Freedom and Market Freedom.' Promotors: F.J.G.M. Klaassen and J.B. Davis. University of Amsterdam, NL.

June 2018. PhD defense of Melissa Vergara Fernández, 'The Use of Modles in Economics.' Promotors: J. Reiss and J.J. Vromen. Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.

March 2017. PhD defense of Erich Pinzon-Fuchs, 'Economics as a “Tooled” Discipline: Lawrence R. Klein and the Making of Macroeconometric Modeling, 1939-1959.' Promotor: A.L. Cot. Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

October 2016. Habilitation defense of Béatrice Cherrier, L’essor de l’économie appliquée des années 1960 aux années 2000. Promotor: M. Vincent. University of Caen, France.

September 2016. PhD defense of Luis Mireles-Flores, 'Economic Science for Use: Causality and Evidence in Policy Making.' Supervisors: I.U. Mäki, J.J. Vromen, and C. Marchionni. Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.

November 2015. PhD defense of Joost Hengstmengel, 'Divine OEconomy.' Supervisors: L. van Bunge. Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL.

December 2011. PhD defense of Julia Mensink, 'Poverty Measures: From Production to Use.' Supervisors: M.S. Morgan and P. Howlett. London School of Economics, UK.

December 2010. PhD defense of Kai Eigner, 'Understanding Psychologists‘ Understanding.' Supervisors: J.A. Radder and H.W. de Regt. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL.

December 2006. PhD defense of Arthur Petersen, 'Simulating Nature.' Supervisors: J.A. Radder and P.P. Kirschenmann. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL.

December 2006. PhD defense Erika Mattila, 'Questions to Artificial Nature.' Supervisors: R. Miettinen and M. Sintonen. University of Helsinki, Finland.