IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/pshchp/978-3-031-63949-4_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

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

Author

Listed:
  • Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

    (Sapienza University of Rome)

Abstract

This paper presents a quantitative investigation into the history of economic thought (HET). Building on previous work (Marcuzzo, Is History of Economic Thought a Serious Subject’, The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 1, 107–23, 2008; ‘A Slender Trunk and many Branches. The History of Economic Thought in Perspective, Past and Future’, in H. M. Krämer, H. Kurz and H. M. Trautwein (eds), Macroeconomics and the History of Economic Thought Festschrift in Honour of Harald Hagemann, Abingdon, Routledge, 171–80, 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studies of ‘minor’ figures and/or economists from a more recent past; 2) the blossoming of archival research into unpublished work and correspondence; 3) less theory-laden investigations, connecting intellectual circles, linking characters and events.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.

Suggested Citation

  • Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, 2024. "Is History of Economics What Historians of Economic Thought Do? A Quantitative Investigation," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought,, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-63949-4_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63949-4_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    History of economic thought; Econlit records; Quantitative analysis;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General
    • B00 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General - - - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-63949-4_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.