Research
Current Projects
- The ‚System of Care’ of the Maternal-Fetal Surgery by Spina Bifida. Establishing a Clinical Standard and a Social Norm
Sandra Gratwohl - Academized Artists (funded by a Spark grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation)
Kris Decker
Completed Projects
- Desktop Studies: Documents as Research Materials in the Natural and Social Sciences and the Humanities
Christoph Hoffmann in cooperation with Michael Hagner (ETH Zurich) Modeling, Measuring, and Designing Economic Growth. The Neoclassical Growth Model as a Historical Artifact, 1930s-1960s
Verena Halsmayer
- Decker, Kris, Exkursion ins Hinterland, in: Merkur, Bd. 855, 2020, 41–52.
- Decker, Kris, Materialschicksale. Randnotizen zur Klimaforschung, in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Bd. 14: Materialgeschichten, 2018, 13–36.
- Decker, Kris, Data Struggles. The Life and Times of a Database in Historical Climatology, in: Social Science Information, Bd. 57 (1), 2018, 6–30.
- Fischer, Philipp, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Christoph Hoffmann, Hans Hofmann, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Hannes Rickli, Natures of Data. A Discussion between Biology, History and Philosophy of Science and Art, Zurich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2020.
- Halsmayer, Verena, Artifacts in the Contemporary History of Economics, in: Till Düppe, Roy E. Weintraub (Hg.), A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, London: Routledge, 2019, 157–176.
- Halsmayer, Verena, Material des Ökonomischen, ökonomisches Material. Das Vermessen von Input-Output-Systemen am Harvard Economic Research Project, 1947–1952, in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Bd. 14: Materialgeschichten, 2018, 111–138.
- Halsmayer, Verena, A Model to "Make Decisions and Take Actions": Leif Johansen’s Multi-Sector Growth Model, Computerized Macroeconomic Planning, and Resilient Infrastructures for Policy-Making, in: History of Political Economy, Bd. 49, 2017, Supplement (Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970, hgg. von Roger E. Backhouse and Béatrice Cherrier), 158–186.
- Halsmayer, Verena, From Exploratory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow’s Growth Model as a Multi-Purpose Design, in: History of Political Economy, Bd. 46, 2014, Supplement (MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, hgg. von Roy E. Weintraub), 229–251.
- Halsmayer, Verena, Der Ökonom als ‘engineer in the design sense’ – Modellierungspraxis und professionelles Selbstverständnis in Robert Solows ‘Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth’, in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 36, 2013, 245–259.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Multiple Data, in: Perspectives on Science, Bd. 28, 2020, 684–699.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Schreiben im Forschen. Verfahren, Szenen, Effekte, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Forschungsmaterial: Eutrigla gurnardus, in: Nach Feierabend. Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte, Bd. 14: Materialgeschichten, 2018, 151–175.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Does a Glow Worm See? Sigmund Exner’s Study of the Compound Eye, in: Representations, Bd. 138 (Spring), 2017, 37–58.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Processes on Paper: Writing Procedures as Non-Material Research Devices, in: Science in Context, Bd. 26, 2013, 279–303.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Die Arbeit der Wissenschaften, Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2013.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Constant Differences. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, the Concept of the Observer in Early Nineteenth-Century Practical Astronomy, and the History of the Personal Equation, in: British Journal for the History of Science, Bd. 40, 2007, 333–365.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Unter Beobachtung. Die Sinne der Naturforschung 1750-1830, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2006.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, The Design of Disturbance. Physics Institutes and Physics Research in Germany, 1870-1910, in: Perspectives on Science, Bd. 9, 2001, 173–195.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, Peter Berz (Hg.), Über Schall. Ernst Machs und Peter Salchers Geschoßfotografien, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001.
- Hoffmann, Christoph, „Der Dichter am Apparat“. Medientechnik, Experimentalpsychologie und Texte Robert Musils 1899-1942, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997.
- Hounshell, Eric, Verena Halsmayer, How Does Economic Knowledge Have a Politics? On the Frustrated Attempts of John K. Galbraith and Robert M. Solow to Fix the Political Meaning of Economic Models, in: KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, Bd. 4 (2): The Public Interest, 2020, 163–193.