My name is David M. Batt and I am a PhD student in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. In my work, I study the history and development of economics from the perspectives of history and philosophy of science. I am particularly interested in the tradition of historical epistemology and French epistemology more generally. My current research centers around the way people in early modern Europe thought, wrote about, and experienced general price increases; specifically, I am interested in how price inflation was understood by contemporaries as part of broader social, political, and environmental processes, and the way qualitative experiences of scarcity, need, and high prices came to be represented quantitatively and ultimately measured in the form of price indices.

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