38 min

The History of Counting Where Few Have Looked Before, Episode 37 Ceteris Never Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast

    • Social Sciences

Guest: Cecilia Lanata-Briones (Warwick University)







Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne)









Bunge, A. E. (1918): «Costo de la vida en la Argentina, de 1910 a 1917». Revista de Economía Argentina 1 (1), pp. 39-63







In this episode, Maria talks to her co-author and team member of a new project on the history of national accounting in what we call the Global South today. Cecilia talks about her thesis on the history of the cost-of-living index in Argentina, a recent co-edited book and our new project.







To check out some of Cecilia's work, see two of her articles linked below:









Lanata-Briones, C.T. (2021) ‘Constructing Cost of Living Indexes Ideas and Individuals, Argentina, 1918–35’, History of Political Economy, 53(1), pp. 57–87.







Lanata-Briones CT. (2023) 'RECONSTRUCTING OFFICIAL STATISTICS: A NEW ESTIMATE OF THE ARGENTINE COST OF LIVING INDEX', 1912-1943. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. 41(1):39-82.

Guest: Cecilia Lanata-Briones (Warwick University)







Host and Producer: Maria Bach (Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne)









Bunge, A. E. (1918): «Costo de la vida en la Argentina, de 1910 a 1917». Revista de Economía Argentina 1 (1), pp. 39-63







In this episode, Maria talks to her co-author and team member of a new project on the history of national accounting in what we call the Global South today. Cecilia talks about her thesis on the history of the cost-of-living index in Argentina, a recent co-edited book and our new project.







To check out some of Cecilia's work, see two of her articles linked below:









Lanata-Briones, C.T. (2021) ‘Constructing Cost of Living Indexes Ideas and Individuals, Argentina, 1918–35’, History of Political Economy, 53(1), pp. 57–87.







Lanata-Briones CT. (2023) 'RECONSTRUCTING OFFICIAL STATISTICS: A NEW ESTIMATE OF THE ARGENTINE COST OF LIVING INDEX', 1912-1943. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. 41(1):39-82.

38 min