David Philippy
Postdoc research fellow
Sciences Po Paris (Centre de Sociologie des Organisations)
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.
Publications
2023
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Philippy, D., Betancourt, R. G., & Dimand, R. W. (2023). Hazel Kyrk’s intellectual roots: When First-Generation Home Economists met the Institutionalist Framework. Research in the History of Economic Though and Methodology, Forthcoming, 41(D), 6–26.
2021
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Philippy, D. (2021). Ellen Richards’s home economics movement and the birth of the economics of consumption. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 43(3), 378–400.
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Soudan, G., Philippy, D., & Maas, H. (2021). Crossing the doorsteps for social reform: The social crusades of Florence Kelley and Ellen Richards. Science in Context, 34(4), 501–525.