It is easy to regard economic ideas as something akin to laws of nature. In reality, every economic idea has a human history, a process through which it was devised, debated, and refined by economists — a group as subject to human nature as any other. Our guest today has spent a career studying how economic thought has evolved, including whether inequality within the field has affected economic thinking about inequality itself.

Beatrice Cherrier is a historian at École Polytechnique in Paris. She is one of the world’s leading historians of economic thought. In this conversation with host Steven Durlauf, she discusses the history of economic thinking about inequality, how economics has moved away from qualitative thinking, and her research on what shapes monetary policy.

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