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=================== HES POSTING ==================
Steve's question is in fact about the institutionalization and
professionalization of economics as such in the U.S, for this is
how our modern (social) criteria for judging scientific contributions
and individual scientists, in short the pecking order, came into
existence.
The literature on that is probably extensive. Moreover, the
literature on the rise to dominance of neoclassical economics all
over the world by means of benchmarking the American educational
model is rapidly growing.
One of my favourite books is Bob Coats (1993), 'Sociology and
Professionalization of Economics. British and American Economic Essays
Volume II' (Routledge) Volume I in this series (of 3) contains also an
interesting article on the subject.
The annual supplement to Volume 28 of HOPE is about how the American
model is benchmarked internationally, but it also contains an article
by William J. Barber on postwar changes in American graduate
education.
Finally, an advertisement. The close link between the rise to
dominance of neoclassical economics and changes in the incentive
structure in graduate education can be studied from the recent
Western European experience. A forthcoming book (to which I
contributed) by Routledge, edited by Bob Coats deals with that
subject.
Henk W. Plasmeijer
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