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Is Swedish Research in Economic History Internationally Integrated?

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Waldenström, Daniel () (Dept. of Economics)

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This paper presents empirical evidence of the international integration of Swedish economic historians. Contrary to the claims of a recent national evaluation of the discipline, the Swedish shares of international publications and conference presentations are robustly below available cross-country and cross-discipline benchmarks. Also considering levels of research inputs, the relative underperformance of the Swedish field is alarming. Four main explanations to this situation are forwarded: 1) Being among the largest economic history communities in the world, Sweden has become self-sufficient and almost independent of the international arena. 2) The dominating research language is Swedish. 3) The dominating publication format is monographs (in Swedish). 4) Swedish economic historians are reluctant to use modern economic theories and statistical analysis to complement the traditionally dominant qualitative research methods.

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Paper provided by Stockholm School of Economics in its series Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance with number 566.

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Date of creation: 10 Oct 2004
Date of revision: 15 Dec 2004
Handle: RePEc:hhs:hastef:0566

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Keywords: Economic history; Historical economics; Methodology; Bibliometrics; Research Policy; Bibliography;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General
N00 - Economic History - - General - - - General
N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods

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