| Titre : |
Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes |
| Type de document : |
document électronique |
| Auteurs : |
Cherrier, Beatrice, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Pittsburgh, PA [United State of America] : JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE |
| Année de publication : |
VOL. 55, NO. 2, JUNE 2017 |
| Importance : |
(pp. 545-79) |
| Note générale : |
Author biography:
- Beatrice Cherrier earned a BS in Economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and in Management Science from The University Paris XII in 2001, a Master of Arts in the Methodology of Economics from the University of Paris Sorbonne in 2004, a PhD in the History of Economics from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and a Habilitation from the University of Caen in 2016. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Duke University, an Assistant Professor at the University of Caen (Alençon Technical College) from 2012-2017, and then joined the faculty of the CNRS & Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), University of Cergy Pontoise as a tenured associate professor.
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| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Index. décimale : |
0.012 Systèmes de Classification bibliographique أنظمة التصنيف البيبليوغرافي |
| Résumé : |
Abstract:
In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification system used by the American Economic Association (AEA) to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the transformation of economics science throughout the twentieth century. Successive classifications were fashioned through heated discussions on the status of theoretical and empirical work, data and measurement, and proper objects of analysis. They also reflected the contradictory demands of users, including economists but also civil servants, journalists, publishers, librarians, and the military, and reflected rapidly changing institutional and technological constraints. Until the late 1940s, disagreements on the general structure of the classification dominated AEA discussions. As the subject matters, methods, and definition of economics rapidly evolved after the war, methodological debates raged on the status of theoretical and empirical work and the degree of unification of the discipline. It was therefore the ordering and content of major categories that was closely discussed during the 1956 revision. The 1966 revision, in contrast, was fueled by institutional and technical transformations rather than intellectual ones. Classifiers essentially reacted to changes in the way economists' work was evaluated, the nature and size of the literature they produced, the publishing industry, and the use of computer facilities. The final 1988-90 revision was an attempt by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) editors to translate the mature core fields structure of their science into a set of codes and accommodate the new types of applied work economists identified themselves with. The 1990 classification system was only incrementally transformed in the next twenty years, but that the AEA is currently considering a new revision may signal more profound changes in the structure of economics. |
| Note de contenu : |
Summary:
1. Introduction
2. In Search of Unity: Fights Over the Soul of Economics (1952–62)
3. Rationalizing Classification (1962–1969)
4. Mapping a Stabilized Discipline and an Institutionalized Profession (1988–90)
Conclusions
References
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| En ligne : |
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/jel.20151296 |
| Format de la ressource électronique : |
Pdf |
Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes [document électronique] / Cherrier, Beatrice, Auteur . - Pittsburgh, PA (15203, United State of America) : JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, VOL. 55, NO. 2, JUNE 2017 . - (pp. 545-79). Author biography:
- Beatrice Cherrier earned a BS in Economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and in Management Science from The University Paris XII in 2001, a Master of Arts in the Methodology of Economics from the University of Paris Sorbonne in 2004, a PhD in the History of Economics from the University of Paris X-Nanterre, and a Habilitation from the University of Caen in 2016. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Duke University, an Assistant Professor at the University of Caen (Alençon Technical College) from 2012-2017, and then joined the faculty of the CNRS & Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), University of Cergy Pontoise as a tenured associate professor.
Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Index. décimale : |
0.012 Systèmes de Classification bibliographique أنظمة التصنيف البيبليوغرافي |
| Résumé : |
Abstract:
In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification system used by the American Economic Association (AEA) to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the transformation of economics science throughout the twentieth century. Successive classifications were fashioned through heated discussions on the status of theoretical and empirical work, data and measurement, and proper objects of analysis. They also reflected the contradictory demands of users, including economists but also civil servants, journalists, publishers, librarians, and the military, and reflected rapidly changing institutional and technological constraints. Until the late 1940s, disagreements on the general structure of the classification dominated AEA discussions. As the subject matters, methods, and definition of economics rapidly evolved after the war, methodological debates raged on the status of theoretical and empirical work and the degree of unification of the discipline. It was therefore the ordering and content of major categories that was closely discussed during the 1956 revision. The 1966 revision, in contrast, was fueled by institutional and technical transformations rather than intellectual ones. Classifiers essentially reacted to changes in the way economists' work was evaluated, the nature and size of the literature they produced, the publishing industry, and the use of computer facilities. The final 1988-90 revision was an attempt by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) editors to translate the mature core fields structure of their science into a set of codes and accommodate the new types of applied work economists identified themselves with. The 1990 classification system was only incrementally transformed in the next twenty years, but that the AEA is currently considering a new revision may signal more profound changes in the structure of economics. |
| Note de contenu : |
Summary:
1. Introduction
2. In Search of Unity: Fights Over the Soul of Economics (1952–62)
3. Rationalizing Classification (1962–1969)
4. Mapping a Stabilized Discipline and an Institutionalized Profession (1988–90)
Conclusions
References
|
| En ligne : |
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/jel.20151296 |
| Format de la ressource électronique : |
Pdf |
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