The quantitative turn in the history of economics: promises, perils and challenges

Cherrier, Béatrice; Svorenčík, Andrej

doi:10.1080/1350178x.2018.1529217

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“…Ante el volumen de información cada vez mayor en la producción académica de la economía (Claveau y Gingras, 2016), los métodos cuantitativos de investigación han adquirido relevancia por su capacidad de procesamiento y análisis (Cherrier y Svorenčík, 2018). Dentro de ellos, la bibliometría permite evaluar calidad e impacto de la literatura científica (Sacho, 1990), al identificar niveles de auto-referenciación (Simoes y Crespo, 2020), coautoría y colaboración internacional (Molina et al, 2016;Orazbayev, 2017;Seltzer y Hamermesh, 2018), geografía y concentración de las autorías (Ek y Henrekson, 2019;Fontana, Montobbio y Racca, 2019), temas centrales y promedio de referencias por año y por artículo (Bornmann y Wohlrabe, 2019).…”

Section: La Bibliometría Como Método En La Economíaunclassified

Estado actual de la investigación en teoría económica del valor a nivel internacional (2019)

Valencia¹,

Martínez²,

Martínez³

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La teoría económica del valor es un área en la que no existe consenso y no ha sido un tema predilecto de investigación en las revistas científicas líderes en ningún periodo de tiempo. Por eso, en este artículo se propone describir el estado actual de investigación en la teoría económica del valor a partir de una evaluación bibliométrica sobre artículos publicados en el 2019 y sus referencias bibliográficas, detectando tendencias en géneros documentales, periodos de tiempo de publicación, concentración geográfica, códigos JEL y palabras clave. Se concluye que la teoría del valor económica tiene una importancia relativamente baja, está escrita predominantemente en lengua inglesa y construida en Europa, con artículos científicos del siglo XXI como fuente predilecta. Con respecto a las referencias, se concentran en Europa y Estados Unidos, evidenciando múltiples corrientes de pensamiento alrededor de esta teoría. Se advierte sobre el papel del continente asiático como uno interesado en esta teoría, que publica en sus lenguas nativas.

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Section: La Bibliometría Como Método En La Economíaunclassified

Estado actual de la investigación en teoría económica del valor a nivel internacional (2019)

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Martínez²,

Martínez³

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“…2. Meanwhile, a number of sociological works on economics as a profession were conducted using established quantitative methods, like Lebaron's (1997) 'La dénégation du pouvoir' (more on this in Cherrier and Svorenčík's (2018) article in this same issue). However, that work did only catch the attention of some (mostly French) economists and historians of economics.…”

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A quantitative turn in the historiography of economics?

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Giraud

Schınckus

2018

Journal of Economic Methodology

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Quantitative approaches are not yet common among historians and methodologists of economics, although they are in the study of science by librarians, information scientists, sociologists, historians, and even economists. The main purpose of this essay is to reflect methodologically on the historiography of economics: is it witnessing a quantitative turn? Is such a turn desirable? We answer the first question by pointing out a 'methodological moment', in general, and a noticeable rise of quantitative studies among historians of economics during the past few years. To the second question, all contributors to this special issue bring relatively optimistic answers by highlighting the benefits of using quantitative methodologies as complements to the more traditional meta-analyses of both historians and methodologists of economics.

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“…This quantitative collective biography approach, while still rare in the history of economics, is known and routinely used in history under the name "prosopography" (Svorenčík 2018). Combining historical data of very different nature is not yet standard practice in our field, but as we have argued in a recent article (Cherrier and Svorenčík 2018), we nevertheless believe it offers an interesting method to overcome archival embargos and study various facets of a historical object-in the present case, a scientific prize.…”

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Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal

Cherrier¹,

Svorenčík²

2020

J Hist Econ Thought

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Before the John Bates Clark Medal (JBCM) had become a widely acknowledged professional and public marker of excellence in economics research, in the first twenty years since its inception more than seventy years ago in 1947, it was almost discontinued three times and once even not conferred. These controversies derived from the fact that the medal was originally established to showcase the expertise of economists to other scientists, policy-makers, and the wider public. While earlier awards were given to theorists, in later years empirical and policy-oriented economists gained ground, reflecting how such research became more prestigious in economics. Based on a quantitative analysis of the forty medalists so far, we show that this empirical shift was concomitant with a decrease in the diversity and an increase in concentration of laureates: twenty-four or twenty-five out of forty awardees received their PhD degree or worked at Harvard, MIT, or Chicago at the time of being awarded.

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The quantitative turn in the history of economics: promises, perils and challenges

Cited by 27 publications

References 32 publications

Estado actual de la investigación en teoría económica del valor a nivel internacional (2019)

Estado actual de la investigación en teoría económica del valor a nivel internacional (2019)

A quantitative turn in the historiography of economics?

Defining Excellence: Seventy Years of the John Bates Clark Medal

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