... Svorenčík, University of Mannheim, Department of Economics, L7, 3-5, 68161 Mannheim, Germany; email: svorencik@uni-mannheim.de . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 prosopography economics PhD production adviser-advisee networks An extended version of this paper including...

..., 103, 120 on move to Harvard, 36n36 and Readings in Economics, 147 view of knowledge, 216 as textbook writer, 161, 161n11 ASA. See American Statistical Black Americans at MIT, 317–36 Association (ASA) affirmative action in MIT PhD...

... Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Toward a History of Economics at MIT, 1940–72 Beatrice Cherrier In November 2011, Mario Draghi (PhD MIT, 1977) became president of the European Central Bank, thereby joining a group of central bank gover...

... believe he would have done [so] rather than begin a new language.” 6. At the time, PhD degrees at GSIA were awarded either in industrial administration or economics. 7. After a productive career as a researcher, Cyert served as dean of GSIA (1962–72) and then as president of Carnegie Mellon...

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... was going through important changes, informed by its mathematization, by the stabilization of a neoclassical way of doing economics, by the advancement of econometrics and the “Keynesian revolution,” and by the Americanization of economics. The MIT PhD program in economics was created only in 1941 but very...

... Journal of Economics 6 ( 2 ): 85 – 112 ; 6 ( 3 ): 20 – 50 . ( In Chinese .) Nien-tzu Wang . 1945 . “ Industrialization, Monetary Expansion, and Inflation .” PhD diss. , Harvard University . Chi-yuen Wu . 1939 . An Outline of International Price Theories . London : Routledge...

... on research purposes and graduate educa- tion, coupled with the broadening of MIT’s original disciplinary focus, created an opportunity in the postwar decades for economics at MIT to expand and to strengthen its research credentials. The changes of the 1940s facilitated the development of the PhD...

.... : MIT Press . Sheshinski Eytan . 1966 . “Essays on the Theory of Production and Technical Progress.” PhD diss. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology . ———. 1967a . “Optimal Accumulation with Learning by Doing.” In Essays on the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth , edited...

... scientific credit. By reconstructing the network of MIT economics PhDs and their advisers, this article furnishes evidence of how MIT rose to prominence as documented by the numerous ties of Nobel laureates, Clark medalists, elected officials of the American Economic Association or the Council of Economic...

... Press . Abbott Edith . 1905 . “ The Wages of Unskilled Labor in the United States 1850–1900 .” Journal of Political Economy 13 ( 3 ): 321 – 67 ( also as “A Statistical Study of the Wages of Unskilled Labor in the United States, 1830–1900, ” PhD thesis in economics, University of Chicago...

...William Darity, Jr.; Arden Kreeger We examine the history of the entry of black American graduate students into the PhD program in economics at MIT in the 1970s. The deployment of an active and aggressive affirmative action program led to the presence of a critical mass of black doctoral students...

..., Departamento de Economia (FEA-USP), Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto 908, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 05508-010; e-mail: pduarte@fipe.org.br . This article is based on chapter 2 of my PhD dissertation (Duarte 2007a). I thank CAPES (Brazil) for financial support. I am...

... of Antwerp, Bel- gium. He obtained a PhD in economics from the University of Paris X-Nanterre. His research focuses on the history of economic thought, linear production theory, health inequality measurement, and intergenerational justice. He has published in a wide range of journals; he recently...

... of Negro Men .” Quarterly Journal of Economics 70 ( 4 ): 525 – 48 . Becker G. S. 1952 . “ A Note on Multi-Country Trade .” American Economic Review 42 ( 4 ): 558 – 68 . ———. 1955 . “ The Economics of Racial Discrimination .” PhD diss. , University of Chicago . ———. 1957...

... and the American Planning Experience of World War One: The Case of the War Industries Board. History of Economics Review 23 : 37 -61. ____. 1999 . Activist Management: The Institutional Economics of Henry S . Dennison. PhD diss., University of Wollongong, Australia. ____. 2000 . Conflict...

....” PhD diss. , Harvard University . Bright A. A. 1949 . The Electric-Lamp Industry: Technological Change and Economic Development from 1800 to 1947 . Massachusetts Institute of Technology Studies in Innovation . New York : Macmillan . Bush V. (1945) 1960 . Science...

... of capital” in economics and the broader economy—what others have called the “shareholder value” view of the American firm. We focus on the social trajectory of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor. Not that Jensen was the only promoter of this view. We...

... a Science of the Rational Family, 1924–1981 .” PhD diss ., l’Université Paris-Saclay . Nerlove Marc . 1974 . “ Toward a New Theory of Population and Growth .” In Economics of the Family. Marriage, Children, and Human Capital , edited by Schultz Theodore W. 527 – 45 . London...

.... The lack of use of mathematics by French economists was not the only obstacle for the emergence of financial economics in French economic departments. The lack of interest in financial markets played an import- ant role too. In the 1970s and until the mid-1980s, most French PhD stu- dents in economics had...