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The Doctorate Programs in Italy: How Economists are Trained?
No full textIn this paper we examine the Doctorate programs in economics in Italy, also through the lenses of a questionnaire sent to the 44 Directors in charge of them at die time (2008). We asked 10 questions related to the organization, the teaching and the job prospective of their program. Our data, covering the 97% of the doctorates awarded between 2001-2005, allow us to draw a picture which is highly representative of the Italian situation. The Italian Doctorates in economics are characterized by a focus on the academic career and are hardly appealing, both from the demand and supply side, for other professional careers. The training profile is almost exclusively modelled on what is done at the major Ph.D. granting University in the US and UK, in terms of textbook adopted and courses offered. The overview of the Italian Doctorate programs in economics conveys the impression of strong homogeneity, rather than diversity and innovation, to the detriment - in our view - to their potential
Keynes's personal investments in the London Stock Exchange and his views on the transformation of the British economy
No full textIn this paper we analyse Keynes’s personal investments in the London Stock Exchange, focusing on Keynes’s selection and pattern of choices of assets, rather than performance of the portfolio. Among other things, this approach may help to assess Keynes’s evaluation of the British economy which was undergoing relevant structural changes in the interwar period. An assessment based on Keynes’s trading behaviour and investment philosophy is a relevant addition to what we know from his public statements or the positions he took in the political arena and even more so given that no detailed reconstruction of his personal investments in the London Stock Exchange had been attempted hitherto. His declared investment philosophy, his choice of sectors and individual shares seem all to indicate his perception of both the structural changes in British economy and the decline in competitiveness of British industry
Introduction
No full textThis volume brings together a number of articles reflecting on the process of
growing social, economic and political disintegration in Europe, the causes of
this process and the possible means of remedying it. It was conceived of as a
tribute to Annamaria Simonazzi, whose contributions to this topic over the
years have been nothing short of insightful and inspiring
The Cambridge Keynesians: Kahn, J. Robinson and Kaldor: a perspective from their archives
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Keynesian tutor. Kahn and the correspondence with Sraffa, Harrod and Kaldor
No full textIn this chapter, relying on new documentary evidence, the differences of approach, style and focus of those economists who were close to Keynes (Sraffa, Harrod, and Kaldor) are highlighted, in relation to Keynes’s ‘favourite pupil’ (as Kahn defined himself). Special importance is given to the period of the ‘Circus’, when Keynes’s new theories were arguing out (and sometimes independently developed) by the younger economists
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