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Bibliometric versus Inside-Knowledge History? An Assessment of Claveau and Gingras’s “Macrodynamics of Economics: A Bibliometric History”

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This paper is an assessment of Claveau and Gingras’s paper, “Macrodynamics of Economics: A Bibliometric History”. Its contention is that for all its innovative character, bibliometric history cannot replace inside-knowledge history. To make my point, I examine the particular case of the history of macroeconomics by confronting what their paper can say about this history with what an inside-knowledge approach has to offer.

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  • Michel De Vroey, 2016. "Bibliometric versus Inside-Knowledge History? An Assessment of Claveau and Gingras’s “Macrodynamics of Economics: A Bibliometric History”," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2016033, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
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