HISTORY
OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE Professor
Frederic S. Lee
DISCIPLINE: ECONOMICS Office: Mannheim Hall 202D
(SS
5641) Office
Hours: by appointment
Lecturers: Thursday,
7.00 – 9.45pm, TBA
Required Texts: Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J.
(eds.) 2009. Economists
in the Americas
Fourcade,
M. 2009.
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession
in
the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Lee,
F. S. 2009. A
History of Heterodox Economics
Valdes, J. G. 1995. Pinochet’s Economists: the Chicago School in Chile.
Optional Texts: Whitley, R.
2006. The Intellectual and Social Organization of the
Sciences, 2nd ed.
Ross,
D. 1991.
The Origins of American Social
Science.
Lee,
F. S. and Elsner, W. (eds.) 2010. Evaluating
Economic Research in
a Contested
Discipline: Rankings, Pluralism, and the
Future of Heterodox Economics.
Katzner, D. M. 2011. At the
Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in
Turbulent
Times.
Rutherford, M. 2011. The Institutionalist Movement in American
Economics,
1918-1947.
Assessment: Project on the historical
development of heterodox economics in a specific country. Due May 3, 2012
Course Description
This
course is concerned with the historical-social development of heterodox
economics around the world since 1945.
Thus, the course will deal with a number of interdependent issues,
including the institutional organization of economics at universities; the
professionalization of economics; the historical development of the structures
and social networks that contributed the development of heterodox
economics. In addition, the role of
institutional and state power to maintain the dominance of the neoclassical
paradigm vis-à-vis heterodox economics is examined. Finally the course will examine the teaching
and spread of heterodox economics outside the academy, such as through labor
colleges and party schools.
COURSE OUTLINE
I. Introduction – What Does a History of an Academic Social
Science Discipline Look Like
A. Social
Organization and Intellectual Cleavages of a Social Science Discipline
1. Whitley, R.
2006. The Intellectual and Social Organization of the
Sciences
2. Whitley,
R. 1986.
“The Structure and Context of Economics as a
Scientific
Field.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 4: 179-209.
B. Intellectual
Cleavages in Economics
C. Historical
Emergence of Economics as an Academic Discipline
1. Ross, D.
1991. The Origins of American Social Science, chs. 3,4,6,9,10.
2. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, ch. 2.
3. Barber, W. J. (ed.) 1988. Breaking the Academic Mould: Economists
and
American Higher Learning in the Nineteenth Century.
4. Young, W. and Lee, F. S. 1993. Oxford Economics and Oxford
Economists, Prologue, chs.1-3.
5. Kadish,
A. 1989.
Historians, Economists, and
Economic History.
London: Routledge.
6. Kadish,
A. and Tribe, K. (eds.) 1993. The
Market for Political Economy.
London: Routledge.
D. Social
Organization of Economics
1. Fourcade, M.
2009. Economists and Societies, Introduction, ch. 1.
2. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
ch.
1.
3. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, ch. 1.
4. Lee, F. S. and Elsner, W. (eds.) 2010. Evaluating Economic Research in
a Contested
Discipline: Rankings, Pluralism, and the
Future of Heterodox Economics, ch. 6.
5. Lee, F. S. and Elsner, W. 2008.
“Publishing, Ranking, and the Future of
Heterodox
Economics,” On the Horizon,
16(4): 176-84.
E. Pluralism and Economics
1. Lee, F. S. 2011. “The Pluralism Debate in Heterodox
Economics”,
Review of Radical Political Economics,
43.4.
2. Garnett, R.
F. 2006. “Paradigms and Pluralism in Heterodox Economics”,
Review of Political Economy 18(4): 521–46.
3. Sent, E.-M.
2006. “Pluralisms in Economics.” In S. H. Kellert, H. E.
Longino, and C. K. Waters (eds.) Scientific Pluralism,
80-101. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
II. Social Organization of Economics: Preliminary Features
A. Journals
and Community Discourse
1. Lee, F. S. and Elsner, W. (eds.) 2010. Evaluating Economic Research in
a Contested
Discipline: Rankings, Pluralism, and the
Future of Heterodox Economics, ch. 5.
2. Dolfsma,
W. and Leydesdorff, L. 2008. “Journals as Constituents of
Scientific
Discourse: Economic Heterodoxy,” On the Horizon, 16(4): 214-225.
3. Cronin,
B. 2008.
“Journal Citation among Heterodox Economists 1995-
2007: Dynamics of Community Emergence,” On the Horizon, 16(4): 226-40.
4. Pieters,
R. and Baumgartner, H. 2002. “Who Talks to Whom? Intra- and
Interdisciplinary
Communication of Economic Journals.” Journal of Economic Literature
40(2): 483-509.
5. Whitley,
R. 1991.
“The Organization and Role of Journals in Economics
and Other Scientific
Fields.” Economic Notes 20(1): 6-32.
B. Rankings
of Departments and Journals
1. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, ch.
11.
2. Lee, F. S. and Elsner, W. (eds.) 2010. Evaluating Economic Research in
a Contested
Discipline: Rankings, Pluralism, and the
Future of Heterodox Economics, chs.
2-4.
3. Moed,
H. F. 2005. Citation
Analysis in Research Evaluation, chs. 1-8,
10, 15-20.
4. Lee,
F. S. 2006. “The Ranking Game, Class, and Scholarship in
American
Economics.” Australasian Journal of Economics Education 3(1-2): 1-41.
5. Greenberg,
S. A. 2009. “How Citation Distortions Create Unfounded
Authority: Analysis of a Citation Network.” BMJ, 339; b2680; doi:10.1136/bmj.b2680.
C. Research
Assessment Exercises
1. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, chs.
8-9.
2. Lee, F. S. and Elsner, W. (eds.) 2010. Evaluating Economic Research in
a Contested
Discipline: Rankings, Pluralism, and the
Future of Heterodox Economics, chs.
7-8.
3. Gillies,
D. 2008.
How Should Research be Organised? London.
D. Private
and State Funding
E. Teaching
Assessment and Program Accreditation
F. Undergraduate
and Graduate Enrolments
G. Professionalization
and Internationalization of Economics
1. Montecinos,
V. 1997.
“Economists in Political and Policy Elites in Latin
America.” In A. W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of Economics, 279-200,
Durham: Duke University Press.
2. Markoff,
J. and Montecinos, V. 1993. “The Ubiquitous Rise of
Economists.” Journal
of Public Policy 13(1): 37-68.
3. Fourcade,
M. 2006.
“The Construction of a Global Profession: The
Transnationalization
of Economics.” American Journal of Economics
112(1): 145-94.
H. Non-Professionalization: Economics Outside the Academy and Corridors
of
Power
1. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, chs.
2-3,6.
2. Altenbaugh,
R. J. 1990. Education
for Struggle: The American Labor
Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s.. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press.
3. Craik,
W. W. 1964. The
Central Labour College, 1909-1929.
London:
Lawrence and Wishart.
4. Lewis,
R. 1993.
Leaders and Teachers: Adult Education and the
Challenge of Labour in South Wales, 1906-1940. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press.
5. Millar,
J. P. M. and Lowe, J. 1979. The
Labour College Movement.
London: N.C.L.C. Publishing Society Ltd.
6. Simon,
B. (ed.) 1990. The
Search for Enlightenment: The Working
Class
and Adult Education in the twentieth Century. London:
Lawrence and Wishart, chs. 1-6.
III. The Historical Center of the Discipline: United Kingdom and the United States
A. United
Kingdom
1. Fourcade, M.
2009. Economists and Societies, ch. 3.
2. Montecinos,
V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists
in the Americas,
ch. 7.
3. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, chs.
6-7.
4. Backhouse, R. 1997.
“The Changing Character of British Economics.”
In A. W. Coats
(ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization
of Economics, 33-60, Durham: Duke
University Press.
5. Coats,
A. W. (ed.) 2000. The
Development of Economics in Western
Europe
since 1945, ch. 2.
6. Middleton, R.
1998. Charlatans or Saviours?
Economists and the
British
economy from Marshall to Meade. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar, ch. 7.
B. United
States
1. Fourcade, M.
2009. Economists and Societies, ch. 2.
2. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, chs.
2-5.
3. Katzner, D. M. 2011. At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in
Turbulent
Times.
4. Lee, F.
2011. “History of the Economics
Department at University of
Missouri-Kansas
City.” Http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30492/.
5. Mata,
T. and Lee, F. S. 2007. “The Role of Oral History in the
Historiography of
Heterodox Economics.” In E. R. Weintraub
and E. L. Forget (eds.) Economists’
Lives: Biography and Autobiography in
the History of Economics, 154-71,
Durham: Duke University Press.
6. Rutherford,
M. 2011.
The Institutionalist Movement in
American
Economics,
1918-1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
IV. South of the Border
A. Argentina
1. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
ch.
2.
2. Biglaiser,
G. 2002.
Guardians of the nation? Economists, Gnerals, and
Economic Reform in Latin America. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Press, chs. 4,6.
B. Brazil
1. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
ch.
3.
2. Loureiro,
M. R. 1997. “The Professional and Political Impacts of
the
Internationalization
of Economics in Brazil.” In A. W. Coats
(ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization
of Economics, 184-210, Durham: Duke
University Press.
3. Loureiro,
M. R. and Lima, G. T. 1997. “Searching for the Modern Times:
The
Internationalization of Economics in Brazil,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 14:
277-305.
4. Da
Silva, S. 2009. “Going Parochial in the Assessment of the
Brazilian
Economics Research
Output.” Economics Bulletin 29(4):
2826-2846. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sergiodasilva/88/.
C. Chile
1. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
ch.
4.
2. Biglaiser,
G. 2002.
Guardians of the nation? Economists, Gnerals, and
Economic Reform in Latin America. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Press, chs. 4,6.
3. Valdes,
J. G. 1995. Pinochet’s
Economists: the Chicago School in Chile.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
D. Mexico
1. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
ch.
6.
2. Babb,
S. 2001.
Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to
Neoliberalism. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
E. Others
1. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
Chs.
5, 8
2. Harberger,
A. C. 1997. “Good Economics Comes to Latin America,
1955-95.” In A. W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of Economics, 301-311,
Durham: Duke University Press.
3. Fishlow,
A. 1988.
“The State of Latin American Economics.”
In C.
Mitchell (ed.) Changing Perspectives in Latin American
Studies: Insights from Six Disciplines,
87-119. Stanford University Press: Stanford.
4. Montecinos,
V. and Markoff, J. 2001. “From the Power of Economic
Ideas to the Power
of Economists.” In M. A. Centeno and F.
Lopez-Alves (eds.) The Other Mirroe: Grand Theory Through the Lens of latin
America, 105-50. Princeton
University Press: Princeton.
5. Koljatic, M., and Silva, M. 2001.
“The International Publication
Productivity of Latin American Countries
in the Economics and Business Administration Fields.” Scientometrics
51(2): 381-94.
6. Bejarano,
J. A. 1997. “La Investigacion Economica en
Colombia.”
Cuadernos de Economia 27: 219-242, Bogota, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia.
7. Biglaiser,
G. 2002.
Guardians of the Nation? Economists, Gnerals, and
Economic Reform in Latin America. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Press, chs. 4,6.
8. Palacios,
M. 2005.
“Knowledge is Power: The Case of
Colombian
Economists.” In V. FitzGerald and R. Thorp (eds.) Economic Doctrines in Latin America: Origins, Embedding and Evolution,
182-216. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke.
9. Conaghan,
C. N. 1998. “Stars of the Crisis: The Ascent of Economists in
Peruvian Public
Life.” In M. A. Centeno and P. Silva
(eds.) The Politics of Expertise in Latin
America, 142-164. New York
City: St. Martin’s Press, Inc.
V. Europe
A. France
1. Fourcade, M.
2009. Economists and Societies, ch. 4.
2. Coats,
A. W. (ed.) 2000. The
Development of Economics in Western
Europe
since 1945, ch. 7.
B. Germany
1. Coats, A. W. (ed.) 2000. The Development of Economics in Western
Europe
since 1945, ch. 6.
C. Italy
1. Porta,
P. L. 1997. “Italian Economics through the Postwar
Years.” In A.
W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of Economics,
165-183, Durham: Duke University Press.
2. Hermann,
A. 2008.
“The Assessment of Economic Journals in Italy,” On
the
Horizon, 16(4): 286-8.
3. Coats,
A. W. (ed.) 2000. The
Development of Economics in Western
Europe
since 1945, ch. 8.
4. Birolo,
A. and Rosselli, A. 2010. “Research Standards for the Italian
Young
Academics: What has changed over the
last Thirty Years?” Unpublished.
5. Graziani,
A. 1991.
“The Italian Economic Journals and some major
Turning-Points in
Economic Theory.” Economic Notes 20(1):
117-34.
D. Greece
1. Vlachou,
A. 2008.
“Ranking and the Prospects of Heterodox Economics
in Greece,” On the Horizon, 16(4): 293-97.
2. Coats,
A. W. (ed.) 2000. The
Development of Economics in Western
Europe
since 1945, ch. 11.
E. Eastern Europe After 1945
1. Lee, F. S. and Elsner, W. (eds.) 2010. Evaluating Economic Research in
a Contested
Discipline: Rankings, Pluralism, and the
Future of Heterodox Economics, ch. 9.
2. Wagener, H.-J. (ed.) 1998. Economic Thought in Communist and Post-
Communist
Europe. London:
Routledge, chs. 1-7.
F. Other
1. Sanderlin,
B. and Veiderpass, A. 1997. “The Dissolution of the Swedish
Tradition.” In A. W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of Economics, 97-122,
Durham: Duke University Press.
2. Coats,
A. W. (ed.) 2000. The
Development of Economics in Western
Europe
since 1945, chs. 3, 4, 5, 9, 10.
3. Steedman,
I. (ed.) 1995. Socialism
and marginalism in Economics, 1870-
1930, chs. 2,3,8.
4. Engwall,
L. (ed.) 1992. Economics
in Sweden: An Evaluation of Swedish
Research
in Economics. London: Routledge.
VI. Other
A. Australia
and New Zealand
1. Butler,
G., Jones, E., and Stilwell, F.
2009. Political Economy Now! The
Struggle
for Alternative Economics at the University of Sydney.
Sydney: Darlington Press.
2. Groenewegen,
P. 2009.
Educating for Business, Public
Service and the
Social Sciences:
A History of the faculty of Economics at the University of Sydney,
1920-1999.
3. Groenewegen,
P. 1997.
“The Australian Experience.” In
A.
W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of
Economics, 61-79, Durham: Duke
University Press.
4. King,
J. E. and Kriesler, P. 2008. “News from Down Under,” On the
Horizon, 16(4): 289-92.
5. Kates,
S. et. Al. 2008. “Symposium:
The Near Death Experience of the
History of
Economics in Australia.” History of Economic Ideas 16.3: 79-118.
B. India
1. Ambirajan,
S. 1997.
“The Professionalization of Economics in India.” In
A. W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of
Economics, 80-96, Durham: Duke
University Press.
C. Other
1. Choi, Y. B. 1997.
“The Americanization of Economics in Korea.” In A.
W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of
Economics, 97-122, Durham: Duke
University Press.
2. Ikeo,
A. 1997.
“The Internationalization of Economics in Japan.” In A.
W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of
Economics, 123-141, Durham: Duke
University Press.
VII. Conclusion: Ideology,
Neoliberalism, State, and Heterodox Economics
1. Lee, F. S. 2009. A History of Heterodox Economics, ch.
10.
2. Montecinos, V. and Markoff, J. (eds.) 2009. Economists in the Americas,
chs.
9.
3. Biglaiser, G. 2002.
“The Internationalization of Chicago’s Economics in Latin
America,”
Economic Development and Cultural Change,
50.2: 269-86.
4. Fourcade-Gourinchas and Babb, S.
L. 2002.
“The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed:
Paths to
Neoliberalism in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology
108.3: 533-79.
5. Mirowski,
P. and Plehwe, D. (eds.) 2009. The
Road from Mont Pelerin: The
Making of the neoliberal Thought Collectiove. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.