Mary S. Morgan
{{short description|British economist}}
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Mary Susanna Morgan {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|FBA}} FRDAAS is an economist, philosopher, historian, and the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics in the London School of Economics. She was Department Chair of Economic History between 2002 and 2005. In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Biography
Morgan graduated from the London School of Economics a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in economics in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1984. From 1992 to 2002, she worked part-time as Professor of the History and Methodology of Economics in the University of Amsterdam. Since 2002, she has been an overseas member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/buitenlandse-leden/5313 |title=Mary Morgan |language=Dutch |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=15 July 2015}}
Her most informative period occurred during her PhD, when she was working on the history of econometrics. At the time, she was part of a research group at the ZiF in Bielefeld on 'The Probabilistic Revolution' — a historical and philosophical project in part led by Ian Hacking. That was a time when philosophers of economics were mainly inside economics departments, not in the philosophy of science community.{{cite web|title=Women in Philosophy of Science. Thee-minute interview with Mary S. Morgan|url=https://philsci.eu/MarySMorganInterview}}
Research
Morgan has made important contributions to the history of economic thought, especially with regard to the history of econometrics, the historical development of measurement in economics, and the evolution and methodological implications of the use of economic models (see important publications list).{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} She is influential in bridging philosophy of economics with philosophy of science, asking how economists work and think. Her philosophical work focuses on the role of narratives, evidence, case studies, and models in economics and the social sciences. As a historian of science, she interrogates how these have changed over the past century.
She led a major European Commission European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant titled "Narrative in Science" (2016-2020).{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Narrative Ordering and Explanation in the Sciences: Historical Investigations and Perspectives|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/694732|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}} Other grants included the project "Re-thinking Case Studies Across the Social Sciences" (2009-2012),{{Cite web|title=Wolfson Research Professorships Awards 2009|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/wolfson-research-professorships/past-awards/2009/|access-date=2020-11-29|website=The British Academy|language=en}} "The Nature of Evidence: How Well Do "Facts" Travel?" (2004-2009),{{Cite web|title=How well do facts travel?|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/Research/How-Well-do-Facts-Travel/About-the-project.aspx|access-date=2020-11-29|website=London School of Economics and Political Science|language=en-GB}} and "Models and Their Making in Economics" (1999-2001).{{Cite web|title=British Academy Research Readerships: past awards|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/british-academy-research-readerships-past-awards/|access-date=2020-11-29|website=The British Academy|language=en}} Her book The World in the Model (Cambridge University Press, 2012) on the history and philosophy of economics explains how economists use models and economics as a model-based science.{{Cite book|last=Morgan, Mary S.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/808366388|title=The world in the model : how economists work and think|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-54925-7|location=Cambridge|oclc=808366388}}
Most important publications
- [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_Econometric_Ideas.html?id=iUpDzJM9lq0C The History of Econometric Ideas], 1990. {{isbn|0-521-42465-8}}
- The Foundations of Econometric Analysis (with D. F. Hendry), 1995. {{isbn|0-521-38043-X}}
- {{cite book |title=1997 paperback edition |isbn=0-521-58870-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yRYrW3SS1OwC |last1=Hendry |first1=David F. |last2=Morgan |first2=Mary S. |date=20 February 1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press }}
- Models as Mediators (ed. with M. Morrison), 1999.
- The Age of Economic Measurement (ed. with Judy L. Klein), 2001 (History of Political Economy, Annual Supplement to Vol. 33). {{isbn|0822365170}}
- The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think, 2012. {{isbn|978-1-107-00297-5}}
External links
- [https://www.narrative-science.org/ Narrative Science project page]
- [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/review/33/mary-s-morgan-interview/ Interview about her life and work]
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