Murat Bakeev

I am a historian and philosopher of economics with broad interests that focus on how economic ideas and cognitive devices have been used and changed historically through their application to science and policy. I emphasise the role of methodological, epistemological, and ontological commitments in how economic theories, methods, and models are perceived and put into practice. My research combines methods from history, philosophy, and the social sciences, relying heavily on case studies and computational methods, such as topic modelling.

As part of the MODEL TRANSFER project, my research focuses on the challenging case of the transfer of agent-based models into macroeconomics. In particular, I plan to examine the early history of attempts to build macroeconomic agent-based models, the philosophical implications of methodological differences in accepted standards of empirical validation between agent-based modelling and the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modelling that dominates macroeconomics, and, finally, the diffusion of agent-based models into various subdisciplines of economics using computational text mining methods.