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Cliometrics: a market account of a scientific community (1957-2005)

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  • Angela Milena Rojas

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Resumen: Este ensayo apunta a comprender la evolución de la cliometria, un enfoque para el estudio del pasado económico, exponiendo su conformación, difusión y constante desarrollo. Uso una analogía tomada de la economía para analizar la cliometria como una firma, la cual es dirigida por una comunidad científica cuyo objetivo es proporcionar explicaciones a un conjunto de preguntas que la sociedad formula. Un pseudo-mercado de conocimiento permitirá identificar más sistemáticamente las restricciones y las fuerzas que determinan el trabajo de estos científicos. La sección dos desarrolla tal analogía en tanto la sección tres la aplica a la primera etapa de la cliometria (1957). La sección cuatro continúa el análisis de los anos de contracción interna y expansión internacional (1976-1990); así mismo la sección cinco presenta la evolución reciente (1991-2006). El ensayo concluye con una evaluación general de la comunidad de cliometristas, en la cual la ausencia de cohesión se destaca. En el fondo, la falla para cumplir con el doble estándar" de la economía y la historia encuentra sus raices en la estructura actual de las ciencias sociales. Algunas observaciones sobre el trabajo de comunidades científicas integradas son presentadas así como futuras perspectivas para los académicos e historiadores económicos en los países en desarrollo. / Abstract: This paper aims at understanding the evolution of cliometrics by showing how this approach to study the economic past has emerged, diffused, evolved, and still continues doing so. I use an analogy from economics which is to consider cliometrics as firm, managed by a scientific community whose goal is to provide explanations of a set of questions that society asks. A pseudo-market of knowledge will help to identify more systematically the constraints and forces shaping these scientists´ work. Section two develops this analogy while section three applies it to the first stage of cliometrics (1957-1975). Section four continues the analysis for the years of internal contraction and international expansion (1976-1990), and so does section five with regard to the recent evolution (1991-2006). The paper concludes with a general assessment of the cliometrics community, in which the lack of cohesion outstands. Ultimately, the failure in accomplishing the "dual standard" of economics and history finds its roots in the current structure of social sciences. Some insights on the work of integrated scientific communities are developed as well as future perspectives for scholars and economic historians in developing countries"

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  • Angela Milena Rojas, 2006. "Cliometrics: a market account of a scientific community (1957-2005)," Borradores del CIE 4184, Universidad de Antioquia, CIE.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000099:004184
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