The Price of Virtue: Some Hypotheses on How Tractability Has Shaped Economic Models
finally published in open access
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This idea of using tractability to tell history is compelling. Giocoli's 2015 "Old lady charm" is another example of it; he wonders why post-Chicago IO replaced Chicago IO in the classroom, but not in the courtroom. And one of the explanations he provides is that Chicago price theory had clear implications for competition law, while post-Chicago game theory is much more ambiguous (i.e. less tractable for legal analysis).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2015.1005394
