U.S. Economics and the Quest for Scientific Authority (1932–1957)

Camila Orozco Espinel is an interdisciplinary scholar. She obtained her PhD in Sciences of Society at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). Her research focuses on 20th Century history of economics, primarily the post-Second World War quest of the discipline for scientific authority. She also pursues research on women economists in Latin America, the contribution of women to econometrics, the collaborations between couples of economists and history of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She teaches economics at the University of Lille, France.