Research

Books

• Svorenčík, Andrej & Maas, Harro (2016) The Making of Experimental Economics: Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field, Springer. 245p.
  • 2019 Best Monograph Award of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought

Articles

• Cherrier, Beatrice and Andrej Svorenčík (forthcoming)  Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal. Journal for the History of Economic Thought.
• Cherrier, Beatrice and Andrej Svorenčík (2018) The Quantitative Turn in the History of Economics. Journal of Economic Methodology. 25 (4) 1-10.
• Svorenčík, Andrej (2018) The Missing Link: Prosopography in the History of Economics. History of Political Economy. 50 (3): 605-613.
• Svorenčík, Andrej (2018) Creating Economics in the Lab: From Physical Place to Laboratory Space. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. 36B: 163-177.
• Jérôme Lange, Reinhard Schumacher and Andrej Svorenčík (2017) From Antiquity to Modern Macro: An Overview of Contemporary Scholarship in the History of Economic Thought Journals, 2015-2016. History of Economic Ideas 25(2): 172-207.
• Svorenčík, Andrej (2017) Allocating Airport Slots - The History of Early Applied Experimental Research. History of Political Economy. 49(5): 240-263.
• Maas, Harro and Andrej Svorenčík (2017) “Fraught with Controversy”: Organizing Expertise against Contingent Valuation. History of Political Economy, 49(2): 315-345.
  Mentioned in Le Monde
• Svorenčík, Andrej (2016) The Sidney Siegel Tradition: The Divergence of Behavioral and Experimental Economics at the End of the 1980s. History of Political Economy, 48(5): 270-294.
• Svorenčík, Andrej (2014) MIT’s Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography. History of Political Economy, 46(5): 109-133.
  Mentioned & reviewed by Marginal Revolution in 2014 & 2015, Boston Globe, and Library of Economics and Liberty 

Book Chapters

• Svorenčík, Andrej (2018) Prosopography: The Missing Link in the History of Economics In: T. Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub. The Contemporary Historiography of Economics. Routledge. 101-118.
• Svorenčík, Andrej (2010, 2015: 2nd edition) Experiments in Economics. In: J. Davis, M. Boumans Economic Methodology Understanding Economics as a Science. Palgrave Macmillan. 65-70.

Dissertation

Svorenčík, Andrej (2015) The Experimental Turn: a History of Experimental Economics. University of Utrecht  

    A brief review on Marginal Revolution

    In Slovak language

    co-editor of: Filko, Martin (2016) Svet podľa Filka. Slovart, 224p.

    Hospodárske Noviny

    Denník N

    SME

Upcoming presentations:

• AEA&ASSA San Diego (January 2020).

Recent presentations:

• Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty, Slovak & Czech Economic Association meetings (Brno, September 2019).
• 16^th STOREP conference (Siena, June 2019) The Driving Forces Behind the Success of Experimental Economics.
• History of Economics Society Annual Conference (New York, June 2019) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover).
• Blanqui Lecture, 22^nd Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Lille, May 2019).
• Martin Filko Prize lecture, Slovak Economic Association meetings (Bratislava, September 2018).
• Historical Network Research conference (Brno, September 2018) Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty.
• History of Economics Society Annual Conference (Chicago, June 2018) The Doctoral Origins of Economics Faculty.
• 22nd Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Madrid, June 2018) Prosopography of Experimental Economists.
• INET-YSI Workshop for junior scholars on Institutions and Communities in the History of Economic Thought (Madrid, June 2018) Invited as the main speaker.
• Prosopographical Methods in International and Economic History Workshop (Florence, May 2018) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover).
• Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences 2018 (Prague, May 2018) invited speaker.
• October 2017, Lausanne 
•  September 2017, SEAM Košice
• History of Economics Society Annual Meeting (Toronto, June 2017) Prosopography
• Brunel University (London, May 2017) 70 Years of the John Bates Clark Medal
• University of Economics in Prague (Prague, April 2017) The Experimental Turn in Economics
• American Economic Association Meeting 2017 (Chicago, January 2017) 1) Who Runs the AEA? Leadership Hierarchy in American Economics (with Kevin D. Hoover); 2) Networks of Leading Economists; 3) Defining Excellence: 70 Years of the John Bates Clark Medal (with Beatrice Cherrier)
• INET YSI Plenary (Budapest, October 2016) Allocating Airport Slots - The History of Early Applied Experimental Research
• Economic Science Association (Jerusalem, July 2016) Screening of the Witness Seminar on the Emergence of Experimental Economics
• Joint Meeting of the Austrian and Slovak Economic Associations (Bratislava, May 2016) Networks of Leading Economists
• History of Political Economy Annual Conference “Becoming Applied: the Transformation of Economics after 1970” (Duke University, April 2016) Learning How to Whisper in the Ear of Industry Regulators: the History of Early Applied Experiments
• American Economic Association & ASSA Annual Meeting 2016 (San Francisco, January 2016) Learning How to Whisper into the Ears of Industry Regulators: The History of Early Applied Experiments      
• Texas A&M University (College Station, October 2015) The Experimental Turn: How Economics Became an Experimental Science
• Slovak Economic Association Meeting 2015 (Košice, October 2015) Networks of Chicago Economists
• History of Political Economy Annual Conference “Economizing Mind, 1870-2015. When Economics and Psychology Met ... or Didn't” (Duke University, April 2015): The Behaviorist Psychology Tradition in Experimental Economics 
• American Economic Association & ASSA Annual Meeting 2015 (Boston, January 2015) The Behaviorist Psychology Tradition in Experimental Economics 
• University of Mannheim Ringvorlesung Series (November 2014): The Experimental Turn: How Economics Became an Experimental Science 
• History of Economics Society Annual Conference. (University of Montreal, June 2014): Rejecting Rejections – the Passive Reception of Experimental Economics 
• Utrecht-Nijmegen Workshop on History and Methodology of Economics (Utrecht, January 2014): The Experimental Turn
• American Economic Association & ASSA Annual Meeting 2014 (Philadelphia, January 2014): The First-Price Auction Controversy

PAPERS IN PROGRESS:

• The Leadership Hierarchy of the American Economic Association: Beyond Casual Empiricism (with Kevin Hoover)
• Rejecting Rejections—Seeking Acceptance of Experimental Economics in Economics Journals
• Economics Science Association: a History
• Origins of Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

I. History of Experimental Economics

• Book project based on my dissertation: The Experimental Turn: a History of Experimental Economics (2015)
  • A brief review on Marginal Revolution
• NEW BOOK The Making of Experimental Economics: Witness Seminar on the Emergence of a Field (2015)
  • This book is the transcript of a witness seminar on the history of experimental economics, in which eleven high-profile experimental economists participated. The witness seminar was constructed along four different topics: skills, community, laboratory, and funding. The transcript is preceded by an introduction explaining the method of the witness seminar and its specific set-up and resuming its results. The participants' contribution and their lively discussion provide a wealth of insights into the emergence of experimental economics as a field of research.
  • Participants of the seminar: Jim Friedman, Elizabeth Hoffman, Charlie Holt, John Ledyard, John Kagel, Charlie Plott, Stephen J. Rassenti, Alvin Roth, Reinhard Selten, Vernon Smith, Frans van Winden; Moderator of the seminar: Chris Starmer; One chapter by Andreas Ortmann.
• I collect a variety of data about experimental economics and economists
  • My worldwide list of experimental economics laboratories with data on their dates of creation and founders
  • List of Economic Science Association officers and conferences

   

II. Transformations of Economics through the Lens of Collective Biography

Traditionally, the history of economic thought has been presented as a succession of great minds and their ideas. This approach ignores the role of the networks within which economists operate, how their ideas diffuse and gain scientific credit, and it overlooks the explosion of the number of economists in the postwar period. Any narrative of transformation of economics  - mathematical formalization, modeling, econometrics, and more recently experimentation - will be incomplete if it fails to analyze both the structure and the modes of operation of such networks. To study such networks, I employ prosopography, or collective biography, a method that identifies and draws relations­hips between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing statistically relevant biographical data. Whereas it is an established historiographic method, it has not been systematically applied to the history of economics.   

• Collective Biography of Leading Economics Departments 
  • Preliminary results:
    • MIT’s Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography.
      • Appeared in MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, edited by E. Roy Weintraub 
  • Coming up:
    • Inside Chicago Economics: Networks of Chicago Economists
• Collective Biography of the American Economic Association (with Kevin Hoover) 

III. Census of 1^st Edition Copies of Isaac Newton’s Principia (with Moti Feingold)

Our project presents the first comprehensive census of all extant copies of the first edition of Isaac Newton’s magnum opus Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687) together with an accompanying account of its dissemination and early readership.

History of Economics

• Harro Maas @Lausanne
  • history of experimental economics
  • website
  • link to our witness seminar volume

• Kevin Hoover @Duke
  • collective biography (prosopography) of the American Economic Association
  • website

History of Science

• Mordechai Feingold @Caltech
  • Census of extant copies of Newton's first edition Principias (1687)
  • website
  • academia