
David Philippy
Postdoc research fellow
CY Cergy Paris Université (CY Advanced Studies & AGORA)
US economic thought Consumption Women economists Home economics Institutionalism
Thorstein Veblen Ellen S. Richards Hazel Kyrk Elizabeth H. Hoyt
About
My work focuses on consumption in the history of American economic thought (1885-1936) and the issues that its study has implied in the development of the discipline. I am particularly interested in the contribution of women economists at the beginning of the 20th century who were part of a double legacy of the Home Economics Movement and institutionalism. In general, I am interested in questions of “disciplinary boundaries” and the role that epistemological issues play in the construction of the identity of disciplines.