Catherine Herfeld

My ERC Project MODEL TRANSFER on bluesky!

Check out the program for our Winter 2026/27 Semester Work-in-Progress seminar! We’ve already hosted one external speaker: Naomi Kim Netzell (Umeå Universitet). (Pictured: Murat, Luis Lopez, who also joined the session, Catherine, and Naomi). #ERCStG #FrontierResearch

What role should economic models play in legal proceedings? Our postdoc Edoardo Peruzzi explores this question in his new paper, “The Evidential Role of Economic Models in Legal Proceedings,” focusing on the use of economic models in antitrust cases.

BREAKING: The 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel goes to Hall and Woodford #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2026 #EconomicsNobel

The chapter “Model Transfer as a Case of Interdisciplinary Research in Science” by @cherfeld.bsky.social and Edoardo Peruzzi, published in the Ethics of the Sciences collection, is now available online! It sketches a taxonomy of modification procedures that enable cross-domain model transfer.

A special issue of EJHET on Varieties of doing History of Economic Thought features an article by our team members Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social and Edoardo Peruzzi, accompanied by a commentary by Dorian Jullien. See the link below: #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer @erc.europa.eu

Murat Bakeev's article, "Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards, and Methodological Embedding," has been published in Philosophy of Science as FirstView! You can read it open access via the link below. #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer @erc.europa.eu

Check out the chapter by @cherfeld.bsky.social and Malte Doehne on Empirical Network Analysis as a Method in Philosophy of Science, now turned open-access!

Edoardo’s pictures from his last conference trip in Helsinki. He presented at ENPOSS 2026 joint work with @cherfeld.bsky.social and Malte Doehne on Sleeping Beauties and Model Transfer. He also joined the event for celebrating the TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science.

Feed: "Market Design" By: Al Roth on Wednesday, March 4, 2026

A new book of interviews about rational choice is out, edited by the brillilant philosopher of science Catherine Herfeld (her site is here catherineherfeld.weebly.com). Was thrilled to be included short synopsis res.org.uk/wp-content/u...

If 'Conversations on Rational Choice' is on your radar, why not review it? The book brings philosophers and social scientists into dialogue on how rational choice theory works—and where it falls short. Don’t be shy! Drop us a line: pir@uvic.ca #Philosophy #BookReview

New on the Archive: Herfeld, Catherine and Peruzzi, Edoardo (2026) Model Transfer as a Case of Interdisciplinary Research in Science. https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29319/

Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they"

A new contribution by our postdoc Edoardo Peruzzi has just appeared in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Competition Law: a short entry on "Competition"! In the entry, he discusses the role of competition in contemporary policy and how its meaning has evolved in the history of economics.

The Seventh AIP Early-Career Conference for Historians of the Physical Sciences will take place in Toronto, Canada, June 21-25, 2027. Supplementary travel funding provided. The call for submissions is now open and closes November 15. Details here: www.aip.org/history/earl...

Murat Bakeev's paper "Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards and Methodological Embedding" has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30452/

I am in absolute shock to read this. Luke was a wonderful colleague when we were postdocs at the MCMP together. He helped me a great deal to navigate the academic world with his kindness and patience. I am sending my condolences to his loved ones.

Thanks a lot to Philippe van Basshuysen and his team for the invitation and the great questions!

A new blog post about my book Conversations on Rational Choice: cambridgeblog.org/2026/07/conv...

Returning from a visit to Düsseldorf. We had an engaged discussion with PPE students about my book Conversations on Rational Choice and abt our paper on Model Transfer as Model Construction in the Colloquium. Excited about the future of PPE in Germany @modeltransfer.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Katja Rost was a fearless and incredibly engaged researcher and colleague; my condolences go to her family and loved ones, her friends, and her colleagues!

The new issue of EJHET includes great reviews of 📚 on postwar economics in Germany, the USA, and beyond, with a focus on Keynesianism, management, and rational choice www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3... @dnientiedt.bsky.social @dasmith.bsky.social @cherfeld.bsky.social

We will now work and collaborate together with all fields studying, reflecting on and critically discussing science and its relation to society at Leibniz University Hannover. We cannot wait to finally move into our new offices. Thanks to Eva Barlösius and all the people who made this happen!

Here are some photos of @belewollesen.bsky.social presenting at the Market Design Workshop at Radboud University! The title of her presentation was “Manipulability in Collective Decision Mechanisms: What Is Wrong with It and Why Does It Matter?” #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

Dr. Malte Doehne and Prof. Dr. Katja Rost examine how favoritism in political appointments can be reduced through institutional design. Using historical data from 18th‑century Basel, the authors show that family ties strongly influenced access to political office under normal conditions. Howev...

Our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social joins this wonderful event as a lecturer! On June 10, she will give a talk entitled "Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Economics: The Role of Model Transfer." #ModelTransfer #ERCStG #FrontierResearch

Edoardo Peruzzi's paper “Progress in Model-Based Sciences: Reframing the Relationship Between Horizontal and Vertical Progress in Economics,” has been accepted for publication in the Philosophy of Science: PSA 2026 Contributed Paper Proceedings. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29...

Honoured to be part of the 4th Como Summer School in Phil of Econ organized and supported by INEM. Great location, wonderful talks, engaged student discussion, perfect organisation, fun social program! Highly recommended for any graduate student in history, methodology and philosophy of economics.

🙏 The first book review on Conversations in Rational Choice in EJHET is out, written by Camilla Colombo, a moral philosopher and decision theorist at RWTH Aachen. Here it is: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

1/n Verena Halsmayer giving the Blanqui lecture on the history of the Solow model, based on her wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/books/m... #eshethes2026 Key insights:

Amazing conversations on *Conversations on Rational Choice* by Catherine Herfeld at #eshethes2026

And so, the #eshethes2026 has come to a close. A huge thank you to the organizing team in Nice including @nbrisset.bsky.social @mdpl06.bsky.social @ncamilotto.bsky.social @alxndrtrc.bsky.social for making it all possible (Pictured: Conversations on Rational Choice on display during the conference)

On the same day, our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social also took part in a round table on EU funding in HET. The discussion focused on funding schemes offered through @erc.europa.eu and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. In particular, Catherine shared her experience with our #ModelTransfer #ERCStG project.

🔹A presentation by Murat Bakeev in the parallel session "Philosophy and Historiography," where he presented his and Catherine's joint work on integrated history and philosophy of economics. The conference has been incredibly stimulating, and we look forward to the final day tomorrow.

Today, the #eshethes2026 conference featured two highlights for our project: 🔹A symposium on Catherine Herfeld's @cherfeld.bsky.social new book, Conversations on Rational Choice (with Kevin Hoover, Dorian Jullien, Mario Rizzo, and Malte Dold) #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

Article: The First Generation of African American PhDs in Economics: 1921–1943, by Malcolm Rutherford doi.org/10.1017/S105...

It’s finally here 🎉🤯 #historyofeconomics #indianeconomics @shoet.bsky.social

Next week, a sizable fraction of all historians of economics worldwide will convene in Nice for a one-of-a-kind event: for the first time, the European and American associations for the history of econ are organizing a joint conference @shoet.bsky.social www.eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...

#philjobs #philsci

Really looking forward to the first joint ESHET-HES conference in Nice with the model transfer team involved in 6 sessions! 👇

Kicking off the project Modeling in Philosophy at the Uni of Stockholm w @joeroussos.bsky.social, James Nguyen @dellsen.bsky.social & Dunja Šešelja. Stay tuned for research on e.g. #modeltransfer from econ into phil and other exciting topics abt models & progress in phil @modeltransfer.bsky.social

Former LSE student Bele Wollesen has a paper coming out in Ergo that I am a big fan of (www.belewollesen.com/uploads/1/4/...).