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Institutions and ‘Science’: The Contest about Pluralism in Economics in France
- Source :
- Review of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/09538259.2018.1449472⟩, Review of Political Economy, 2018, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/09538259.2018.1449472⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2018.
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Abstract
- For a long time, France was a country in which various approaches to economics coexisted. This pluralism began to dwindle in the mid-1990s. Since then, France has witnessed the increasing and now overwhelming domination of mainstream economics. This article, drawing on a study of the evolution of the recruitment of professors of economics in France, documents the situation and links the observed trends to the changing institutions governing the discipline (a centralized system evolving under the influence of international norms and instruments). It is demonstrated that far from being fair and neutral devices, the rules and instruments governing economics—notably the ranking lists of economic journals—incorporate specific worldviews strongly biasing the assessment of research toward the mainstream. This article documents the tentative use of ‘voice and exit’ by the French Association of Political Economy to reform the economics discipline. Furthermore, it discusses the arguments proclaimed by Jean ...
- Subjects :
- Research evaluation
Pluralism in economics
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Mainstream economics
CONTEST
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
research evaluation
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Economics
Mainstream
heterodox economics
050207 economics
Heterodox economics
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A14 - Sociology of Economics
05 social sciences
JEL: I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I23 - Higher Education • Research Institutions
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
0506 political science
JEL: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches/B.B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches/B.B5.B50 - General
Pluralism (political theory)
Political economy
Political Science and International Relations
JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A2 - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics/A.A2.A23 - Graduate
pluralism
France
JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09538259 and 14653982
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Review of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/09538259.2018.1449472⟩, Review of Political Economy, 2018, pp.1-20. ⟨10.1080/09538259.2018.1449472⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b32d1f063850a2c0544cf6a7cfac8cba