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Is History of Economics What Historians of Economic Thought Do? : A Quantitative Investigation

Giulia Zacchia & Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

History of Economic Ideas2016https://doi.org/10.19272/201606103002article
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Abstract

This paper presents a quantitative investigation into the history of economic thought (HET). Building on previous work (Marcuzzo 2008; 2012), we propose an empirical study with the aim of describing the dynamics of changes in HET in recent years, detecting three trends: 1) a sort of ‘stepping down from the shoulders of giants’, namely a move towards studies of ‘minor’ figures and/or economists from a more recent past; 2) the blossoming of archival research into unpublished work and correspondence; 3) less theory-laden investigations, connecting intellectual circles, linking characters and events. Using data from Econlit we show the evolution of the overall publication of het articles (1955-2013) and of HET fully or partially specialized journals (1993-2013); for the latter, by devising proxies which are amenable to quantitative assessment, we demonstrate that there is some evidence to support these claims.

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@article{giulia2016,
  title        = {{Is History of Economics What Historians of Economic Thought Do? : A Quantitative Investigation}},
  author       = {Giulia Zacchia & Maria Cristina Marcuzzo},
  journal      = {History of Economic Ideas},
  year         = {2016},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.19272/201606103002},
}

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0.61

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.76 × 0.4 = 0.30
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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