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...Andrej Svorenčík Prosopography, or less accurately collective biography, is a historiographical method that identifies and draws relationships between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing relevant biographical data. Although...

... be an important factor in MIT’s rise to prominence. On a methodological level this article introduces collective biography, or prosopography, a well-established historiographical method, to the field of the history of economics. Correspondence may be addressed to Andrej Svorenčík, Department of Economics...

... (the Bank's publications, archives, interviews with current and former Bank economists, citation analysis, prosopography, and topic modeling). [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] aurelien.goutsmedt...

..., with Original Experiments . 2 vols. 3d ed. London:C. Bathurst and T. Lowndes. Progoff, I. 1998 . Life-Study: Experiencing Creative Lives . New York: Dialogue House. Pyenson, L. 1977 . “Who the Guys Were”:Prosopography in the History of Science. History of Science 15 : 155 -88. Rorty, R. 1989...

.... The same can be said of Andrej Svoren ík s piece on prosopography, the study of shared biographi- cal data relating to individuals who belong to a group of historical interest even though the author s claims for this as a forest-rather-than-the-trees approach are not corroborated by the examples cited...

... tutu. To give from the current literature an illuminating example of their importance, Lawrence Stone writing on “Prosopography ” in Historical Studies Today, published in Daedalus, Winter 1971 (pp. 55, 56) assigns the lack of “fullyfledged elitist political theories” in the Anglo-Saxon...

..., or perhaps prosopography, perhaps letters and correspondence of the actors, lecture notes and exams and reading lists, accounts of both success and failure in responses to the new ideas exam- ined through referee reports, funding requests and grant acceptances and rejections, questions at conferences...

... .” In Vichy, Resistance, Liberation: New Perspectives on Wartime France , edited by Diamond Hanna Kitson Simon , 155 – 69 . Oxford : Berg . Joly Hervé . 2000 . “ Prosopographie des dirigeants des comités d’organisation .” In L’Occupation, l’Etat français et les entreprises , edited...

... different from collections of lives where no such criterion is employed.3 It may be going too far to say that short biographies enable us to see the “average” econo- mist (prosopography or bibliometrics may be needed for that), but they do enable us to come closer to that goal. Knowledge belongs...

... University Press . Desmarais-Tremblay , Maxime , and Andrej Svorenčík . 2021 . “ A Prosopography of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought .” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 28 , no. 6 : 1005 – 24 . Düppe , Till , and E. Roy...

... on a statistical analysis of 6,000 entries in the Dictionary of National Biography, thereby planting the seeds for the discipline of “historical prosopography” (Merton 1994). The techniques made available by the war augmented an already rich sociological tool kit. Both Parsons and Merton were exposed...

... (hence even biographies of prominent intellectuals must be analyzed in the context of a whole field of competing and interdependent agencies); not only op-eds and “ideas” but also technical means of shaping, representing, and inter- vening in public affairs (hence no prosopography of an “epistemic...

..., 1750–1914 . New York : Cambridge University Press . MacLeod Christine Nuvolari Alessandro . 2006 . “ The Pitfalls of Prosopography: Inventors in the ‘Dictionary of National Biography’ .” Technology and Culture 47 , no. 4 : 757 – 76 . Mandich Giulio . 1936 . “ Le...

... 1992; Bourdieu 1995). Take Christian Fleck’s highly informative prosopography of German-speaking sociologists, titled A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences (2011). As he studies the transatlantic exchange of ideas in relation to the rise of empirical sociological research, Fleck leaves...