{"id":18528,"date":"2026-09-11T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18528"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T12:03:02","slug":"plus-ca-change-ai-and-the-future-of-economic-research-from-galileo-back-to-socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/plus-ca-change-ai-and-the-future-of-economic-research-from-galileo-back-to-socrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus \u00e7a change. AI and the future of economic research: From Galileo back to Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.org\/about\/people\/isabel-vansteenkiste\">Isabel Vansteenkiste<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For centuries, economic research has been throttled by scarcity of time, labour, and access to data and methods. This column argues that while AI helps dissolve that constraint, it can also exacerbate challenges the profession is already grappling with. And by blurring the traditional distinction between observing the world and modelling it, AI may even challenge our definition of good research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: VoxEU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cepr.org\/voxeu\/columns\/plus-ca-change-ai-and-future-economic-research-galileo-back-socrates\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Vansteenkiste For centuries, economic research has been throttled by scarcity of time, labour, and access to data and methods. This column argues that while AI helps dissolve that constraint, it can also exacerbate challenges the profession is already grappling with. And by blurring the traditional distinction between observing the world and modelling it, AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18529,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18528\/revisions\/18529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}