...” research into policy, then it should be evidenced in policy histories that can then serve as a model for influencing reform. The agricultural crisis that followed the First World War serves as an excellent case study through which I explore the role of agricultural economists in the policymaking process...

...Tiago Mata Abstract The introductory essay to the HOPE supplement on “economics as news” argues why journalism is a deserving subject for research in the history of economics. The case rests on three claims. The first is that the study of journalism gives us a view of a distinct epistemological...

... caught the attention of historians of science. Correspondence may be addressed to Marcel Boumans, Utrecht School of Economics, Kriekenpitplein 21-22, 3584 EC Utrecht, the Netherlands; email: [email protected] . Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 case study research crediting...

... and a case study from the returns to education are examined to characterize the content of the 6. For debates about the roles of experimental and observational research in development, see Teele 2014. 7. This timing is consistent with Bowen et al. (2015), who use bibliometric methods to date...

... anthropology, but as a case study in how methodological exclusivity can result in flawed scholarship and in the stunting of interdisciplinary initiatives. Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 I have benefited from comments by Richard Adelstein, Charles Hanson, Eliot Neaman, participants...

... and psychologists at the LSL conducted game simulations structured by four separate laboratory problems. Economists went from using simulation to demonstrate the superiority of optimal policies derived from deductive economics to using the experiment as an inductive tool. One concern in this historical case study...

... important to Soviet economic practitioners and allowed once ideologically hostile ideas to become central to economics. This case study makes a larger intervention into the history of late Soviet society, arguing that seemingly arcane intellectual conflicts were, in fact, a reflection of extremely...

... Books . Gerring , J. 2017 . Case Study Research: Principles and Practices . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Gibson , C. C. , K. Andersson , E. Ostrom , and S. Shivakumar . 2005 . The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid...

... challenges. In a reflection on practice-oriented studies, which often are case studies, Andrea Woody discusses two of these challenges. The first, obvious challenge in case study research is how to generalize from a par- ticular case, how to avoid getting stuck at a level of particularity that evades any...

... case studies of this sort (and this quality) to find out for sure. Barber’s essay includes evidence that the flow of economic ideas between aca- demia and government can be a two-way street, with an economist’s experience in government effecting the direction of his research once he returns...

.... The effect of these counterexamples on the evolution of the economic theory is very similar to the effect attrib- uted to an anomalous crucial experiment, that is, the abandonment or at least redirection of an area of research. Section I1 below provides two case studies from the recent history...

...- gation cases. Their research was used in several studies by high profile econometricians that were presented at an Exxon sponsored conference in Washington, DC. That conference was organized shortly after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had asked 318  History...

... studies used in contexts in which the lack of reliable data inclines researchers toward their preferred theoretical frameworks. The parables might take the form of a limited analysis that seeks to rupture existing assumptions about phenomena, or they might be a case imported from another context in which...

... its hiring procedures. The final recommendation was that “ethnographic and comparative study of Universities be treated as urgent research by anthropologists” (Executive Board 1970). This last recommendation was never pursued. All other 24. Also in 1968 was the case of Marlene Dixon, hired...

... to an area studies program, in his case the Russian Research Center. When this link was strongest, for the decade or so after his 1948 appointment, Gersch­ enk­ron found the work especially well matched to his talents and incli- nations: his broad and nontechnical training in Odessa and Vienna, his...

... far in a total of thirty volumes. All the books pub- lished include introductory studies written by the respective editors, as well as explanatory notes and, in the case of the Portuguese works, in- dexes organized according to both name and subject. In this way, the publication of new editions...

... America . Cambridge: MIT Press. Fortun, M., and S. S. Schweber. 1993 . Scientists and the Legacy of World War II: The Case of Operations Research (OR). Social Studies of Science 23.4 : 595 –642. Friedman, Milton. 1953 . The Methodology of Positive Economics. In Essays in Positive Economics...

... It was an academic research project with practical implications but did not involve businessmen directly and it mentioned no links to the doctoral program.28 It outlined a narrower list of topics. The program combined detailed case studies with generic statistical investigations. “Factors in the individual...

...: an application of Imre Lakatos' analysis of scientific growth to the rise of drift theory.’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 10 : 21 -66. Fulton , G. 1979 . ‘Aggregate production functions: an appraisal via the methodology of scientific research programmes.’ M. Sc. (Econ.) thesis...

..., the final choice is attributable partly to design, partly to chance. Nevertheless the range and variety of case studies will suffice to pro- vide a basis for provisional generalisations and an inducement to others to explore the rich potentialities for future research both in the coun- tries...