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on Sociology of Economics |
| By: | Ariza Ruiz, Efrén Danilo; Garza, Nestor |
| Abstract: | We document and analyze the emergence and consolidation of neoliberalism in higher education in economics in Colombia. The research focuses on four interrelated categories through which the neoliberal ideology changed the scientific field of economics by replacing endogenously developed analytical traditions during the 1980s -1990s: 1) homogenization of curricula; 2) neoclassical mathematization; 3) use of textbooks; and 4) quantitative assessment (scientometrics) of academic quality. The results show how a generation of economists combined their networks of social capital and legitimacy from international academic connections, to simultaneously impose their worldview in academia, the public administration, and private sector. Our analyses highlight the transfer of the neoliberal values to the education field through the concepts of quality assessment and scientometrics, which institutionalized the exercise of power to discipline intellectual inquiries and scholarship. |
| Keywords: | Higher Education, Economists, Research Policy, Cultural Capital, Sociological Studies, Neoclassical Economics |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:cessdp:300688 |
| By: | Massimiliano Coda-Zabetta (UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin); Francesco Lissoni (BSE - Bordeaux sciences économiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, Unicatt - Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Milano], IC Migrations - Institut Convergences Migrations [Aubervilliers]); Ernest Miguelez (CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain], UB - Université de Bordeaux, University of Barcelona) |
| Abstract: | We investigate the impact of policies aimed at attracting foreign-based star scientists on the internationalisation of host institutions. In particular, we examine the case of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (AvHP) programme, which—since 2008—offers substantial funding to top scholars willing to move from abroad to a German university. Based on a difference-in-differences approach, we test whether the university departments that recruit an AvHP recipient increase the number of internationally co-authored publications and the recruitment of new, high-quality researchers from abroad. Results are very heterogeneous across broad scientific fields, with a significant and positive effects in the Social sciences and null or negative results in all others. |
| Keywords: | Star scientists, Science policy, Peer effects, Learning by hiring |
| Date: | 2024–07–03 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04648037 |
| By: | Kartik B. Athreya |
| Abstract: | Remarks at the PhD Excellence Initiative’s Annual Summer Research Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City. |
| Keywords: | college graduates; college students; economics education; economics degree; economics profession; diversity |
| Date: | 2024–06–28 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fednsp:98673 |
| By: | Ariza Ruiz, Efrén Danilo; Garza, Nestor |
| Abstract: | We use process tracing to test the hypothesis of a specific strategy in the process of discussing and enacting a policy agenda. Our case study is Colombia, where the trace of events and milestones allow us to detect the strategy followed in implementing neoliberal reforms during the 1980s-2000s. The analysis is performed by compiling and offering in a directly comparable setting, the individual professional trajectories and scholarly viewpoints of a set of 61 key economists. The analysis reveals a process of revolving doors between academia, think tanks and government, where the key individuals rotated between different institutions, using their networks of social capital to access the highest level of policy making. The key individuals are mostly extracted from Colombian elites, obtained under and postgraduate degrees in international universities, mostly in the USA, and appealed to academic credentialism in legitimizing their ideological positions. However, the process tracing of their scholarly output shows that it was not very high and mostly published in domestic journals, endogenous to the institutions where they worked. It also shows the scholarly viewpoint of every individual regarding two features of policy making: their preferred degree of market freedom and of government regulation. |
| Keywords: | Economists, Neoliberalism, Process Tracing, Think Tanks, Scholarly Trace |
| JEL: | A11 A14 B24 B53 N01 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:cessdp:300691 |
| By: | Rödel, Bodo |
| Abstract: | Das Peer-Review-Verfahren ist ein in der Wissenschaft anerkanntes, wenn auch nicht unumstrittenes Qualitätssicherungsverfahren. Die Publikation resümiert zunächst Forschungsergebnisse zum Verfahren, um dann genauer auf das Thema Peer Review in der Berufsbildungsforschung einzugehen. Schließlich werden Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung dargestellt. Diese adressierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Berufsbildungsforschung aus drei Perspektiven: als Lesende wissenschaftlicher Fachpublikationen, als Autorinnen und Autoren von Fachpublikationen und als Gutachterinnen und Gutachter im Peer-Review-Verfahren. |
| Keywords: | Peer Review, Berufsbildungsforschung, Qualitätssicherung |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:bibbfb:300904 |
| By: | Kolev, Stefan |
| Abstract: | This paper pursues two goals. First, to reflect on how historical Ordnungsökonomik (Economics of Order) illuminates the politico-economic crises in today's Western democracies via the increasing parallels to the fragilities and fractures of the 1930s. Second, based on these historical inspirations, to come closer to a modern Ordnungsökonomik targeted specifically at today's crises. The three-step approach consists of an anamnesis ("crisis burger"), a diagnosis ("anxiety from over-dynamics"), and a therapy ("fixed points towards order security"). The paper revisits the role of liberal political economists as order guardians amid what the paper calls superfragility, a context in which citizens radically lose trust and unsubscribe from the order, making the trust-enhancing role of liberal political economists existential for the order. |
| JEL: | A11 B25 B41 H11 P16 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:lefpes:301002 |