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Cliometría: Una comunidad científica en el pseudo-mercado del conocimiento (1957-2006)

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  • Angela Milena Rojas Rivera

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This paper aims at assessing the main contributions of cliometrics toward the global and disciplinary integration of social sciences. Through an analogy of a pseudo-market of knowledge it develops an analysis of pressures and responses that cliometricians have faced insofar as an enterprise whose goal is to provide answers to certain questions that society asks. Based on a general appraisal of cliometric-like products, it is found that this U.S. scientific community revolutionized the practice of economic history and gained terrain before the competing traditional history. Subsequently, cliometricians spread their innovations internationally but got through internal divisions which ultimately have enriched their practices and prompted them to cooperate with other scientific communities.

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  • Angela Milena Rojas Rivera, 2007. "Cliometría: Una comunidad científica en el pseudo-mercado del conocimiento (1957-2006)," Lecturas de Economía, Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía, issue 66, pages 47-82, Enero-Jun.
    • Handle: RePEc:lde:journl:y:2007:i:66:p:47-82
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    cliometrics; new economic history; methodology in economic history; scientific community; scientific research paradigm; methods in social sciences;
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    JEL classification:

    • N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology

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