{"product_id":"evaluating-economic-research-in-a-contested-discipline-isbn-9781444339468","title":"Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline","description":"This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review\/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst extensive ranking of heterodox economics journals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFirst ranking of mainstream and heterodox journals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRanking of mainstream and heterodox graduate programs in the US\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eImpact of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in Italy and Australia\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUse of social network analysis to examine the diffusion of heterodox economicsCritique of the use of citation metrics and heterodox economics; Social Science Citation Index with respect to economics is deliberately biased in favour of mainstream journals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEditors’ Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (Wolfram Elsner and Fred Lee).  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRanking Economics Departments in a Contested Discipline: A Bibliometric\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eApproach to Quality Equality Between Theoretically Distinct Sub-disciplines (\u003c\/i\u003eFrederic S. Lee, Therese C. Grijalva, and Clifford Nowell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitation Metrics: Serious Drawbacks, Perverse Incentives and Strategic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOptions for Heterodox Economics\u003c\/i\u003e (Jakob Kapeller).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResearch Quality Rankings of Heterodox Economic Journals in a\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eContested Discipline\u003c\/i\u003e (Frederic S. Lee and Bruce C. Cronin, assisted by Scott McConnell and Erik Dean).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIncreasing the Impact of Heterodox Work:  Insights from RoSE\u003c\/i\u003e (Martha A. Starr).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Diffusion of Heterodox Economics (\u003c\/i\u003eBruce Cronin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePluralism at Risk? Heterodox Economic Approaches and the Evaluation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Economic Research in Italy\u003c\/i\u003e (Marcella Corsi, Carlo D’Ippoliti and Federico Lucidi).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResearch Evaluation Down Under: An Outsider’s View from the Inside\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof the Australian Approach\u003c\/i\u003e (Harry Bloch).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEconomic Performance and Institutional Economics in Poland after 1989\u003c\/i\u003e (Agnieszka Ziomek).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa: Economics and Social\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSciences in the Division of Academic Work\u003c\/i\u003e (Dieter Bögenhold).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economists of Tomorrow: The Case for Assertive Pluralism in Economics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEducation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003eAlan Freeman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeterodox Economics and the Scientist’s Role in Society\u003c\/i\u003e (Marco Novarese and Andrea Pozzali).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederic S. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has published extensively on heterodox microeconomics, on the history of heterodox economics.  He was the editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter and the executive director of ICAPE.  He is currently the editor of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.  He has published in numerous heterodox journals including the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of Social Economy, and the Journal of Economic Issues.\u003c\/p\u003e  This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review\/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research. In a contested discipline such as economics those methods are used by mainstream economists to attack and dismiss heterodox economics. In the book, discriminatory use of these methods vis-a-vis heterodox economics is investigated (with case studies in Australia, Italy, and the United States) and discussed. In addition, it is also shown how such methods can be used to promote heterodox economics and heterodox research (without at the same time denigrating mainstream economics and its research). Finally, the book concludes with the unexpected position that a contested economics discipline is a good thing for it makes for better economists who are more capable of contributing in an open and intelligent manner to economic-social policy issues.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989172437221,"sku":"NP9781444339468","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444339468.jpg?v=1761783081","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/evaluating-economic-research-in-a-contested-discipline-isbn-9781444339468","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}