Quantifying central banks’ scientization: why and how to do a quantified organizational history of economics
Quantifying central banks’ scientization: why and how to do a quantified organizational history of economics
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量化中央银行的科学化：为什么以及如何量化经济学的组织历史
DOI：
10.1080/1350178x.2018.1529216
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Jérémie Dion
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作者：
François Claveau;Jérémie Dion
经济学历史研究的一个子集是组织史，即对产生、传播和应用经济思想的组织的研究。本文认为，组织史中的一些研究问题由于涉及到量级问题，因此需要采用定量方法。更准确地说，我们认为定量方法应该补充而不是取代其他研究方法，当研究问题至少部分是关于量级的。我们通过研究一种类型的组织——中央银行，以及它与经济科学之间不断变化的关系来实践这一过程。我们的研究结果明确指出，中央银行在货币经济学专业领域的主导地位日益增强。央行的研究队伍不断壮大，它们在专业学术期刊上发表的文章越来越多，这些文章如今往往比央行以外的文章更有影响力。
ABSTRACT A subset of research in the history of economics is organizational history – i.e. the study of the organizations producing, circulating and applying economic ideas. This article maintains that some research questions in organizational history call for quantitative methods because they ask about magnitudes. More precisely, we claim that quantitative methods should complement rather than replace other research methods when the research question is at least partly about magnitudes. We walk the walk with a study of one type of organization, central banks, and of its changing relationship with economic science. Our results point unambiguously toward a growing dominance of central banks in the specialized field of monetary economics. Central banks have swelling research armies, they publish a growing share of the articles in specialized scholarly journals, and these articles tend to have more impact today than the articles produced outside central banks.