.... The Interesting Narrative of a Duke-Trained Historian of Economics, from Prospectus to Ph.D. to Profession; or, How I Learned to Love Weintraub and Start Worrying Stephen Meardon The first part of my title may seem presumptuous,but I intend it to help make a modest point. The “interesting narrative...

... -53. Schabas, M. 1992 . Breaking Away: History of Economics as History of Science. HOPE 24.1 : 187 -203. Siegfried, J. J., and W. A. Stock. 1999 . The Labor Market for New Ph.D. Economists. Journal of Economic Perspectives 13.3 : 115 -34. Graduate Studies in the History of Economic...

.... Journal of Political Economy 83 . 3 : 477 -507. University of Minnesota. 1939–1968 . The Register of Ph.D. Degrees. 2 vols. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Yale University 1961 . Yale University Doctors of Philosophy, 1861–1960 . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University. Institutional...

... ;o io bo sb Qo ;o eb ;o I& ,A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS Fig. I. Distribution of convention participants by institutional origin of participants' Ph.D. and by current institutional job affiliation. graduate training of participants as well as their job...

...: A Statistical Assessment of the Nature and the Extent of Female Participation in Five British and North American Journals 1900-39 . University of Sydney Working Papers in Economics, no. 201. Hutchinson, Emilie Josephine. 1930 . Women and the Ph.D.: Facts from the Experiences of 1,025 Women Who Have Taken...

.... In 1993 the Korean Economic Association boasted over 1800 members with the Ph.D. degree. The process of growth has one pronounced feature: the preponderance of graduate training in the United States, which may be called Americanization.’ In a way, the economic profession in Korea has...

... arise because Chicago and Harvard use their journals to further the careers of their Ph.D. students, calculations were made of the time from Ph.D. to publication in the JPE and the QJE. In 1950–60, 57 percent of articles by Chicago Ph.D.’s in the JPE were published within four years of graduation...

... at Harvard University, 1869-1900” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard Univ., 1965), has provided an exemplary case study which treats institutional and intellectual changes. And he has broadened his findings in an unpublished paper, “Economists as Experts: The Rise of an Academic Profession in the United States...

... Christ, Murray Kemp (Australian, but Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins), Arthur Goldberger, and Frank Brechling (Irish, but based at N~rthwesternIn addition, there were people on the permanent staff who were trained in the United States (David Laidler) and several Americans who vis- ited Essex...

... of the authors who have published articles in this journal. Nevertheless, it does illustrate the fragility of the history of thought community in Australia. Casual empiricism suggests that a small num- ber of Ph.D. supervisors account for a disproportionate number of Ph.D. theses in the history...

... Press. 292 History of Political Economy 34:2 (2002) vintage: every sentence in the introduction counts, and many have since been expanded into entire articles” (xvii).2 Whereas Lucas (Ph.D. 1964) overlapped with Muth (Ph.D. 1962) at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA...

... Duke University Press 2001 Contributors H. Spencer Banzhaf is a Fellow in the Quality of the Environment Division at Re- sources for the Future. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University in 2001. His historical interests include twentieth-century welfare economics...

... of faculty,but it does list those as- sociated with institutionalism,as well as the more important represen- tatives of the neoclassical approach in the department. Also listed are significant faculty in other departments; a selective listing,by date of Ph.D.,of graduate students,including those most...

... professor level and with tenure at the asso- ciate professor level in all Ph.D.-granting departments for 1993 through 1999.7 These are individuals who are likely to be actively engaged in re- search and making presentations at professionalmeetings. In general, the percentages are somewhat higher...

... in an economics department. At the graduate level, further investment in economic theory is also required, although it might be argued by some that the investment necessary for a thesis in the history of economics might be less than, say, the “core theory” required from a modern economics Ph.D. However, I...

... advice here. Ignore it at your peril. The worst of all possible worlds is to take a job in a weak graduate department. Most graduate students think all Ph.D. programs are pretty much alike, and they imagine employment at such a place as an ideal. They imagine joint publications with good graduate...

... , K. 1908 . “Theoretisches zum unvollständigen Monopole.” (Schmollers) Jahrbuch, für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft im Deutschen Reich 32 : 1 -12. Nichol , A. J. 1930 . “Partial Monopoly and Price Leadership: A Study in Economic Theory.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ...

... . Western Economists and Eastern Societies: Aspects of Change in South Asia 1950–1970. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Solow , Robert . 1990 . Educating and Training New Ph.Ds. American Economic Review 80 . 2 : 437 –50. Stallings , Barbara , and Robert Kaufman, eds. 1989 . Debt...

... and American Social Science during the Twenties and Early Thirties. Ph.D. diss. , University of Manitoba. Book Reviews 857 For and Against begins with an imaginary dialogue between Lakatos and Feyer- abend, which provides a splendid introduction...

... of the Faust drama in economic terms. Work in Ph.D. dissertations has ranged widely. For instance, J. X. Kraus (2000) wrote on the Stoa and its influ- ence on physiocracy andAdam Smith, and C. Baloglou (1995) addressed early mathematical economics in Germany. There were also projects: a group around G...