Becoming an economist: the evolution of the Ph.D. in France
(2023) Journées Gide 2023 — Location: Université Lyon 2 & 3 et Sciences Po Lyon (8.June.2023)
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- We study the internationalisation of economics in France through the evolution of Ph.D. theses. In the postwar era, French economics increasingly became influenced by U.S. economics. The process of internationalisation that took place over the second half of the 20th century was not without opposition from French traditions of economic thought (Fourcade 2006; Benest 2019; Goutsmedt, Renault, and Sergi 2021). For academics, one important point of contention is the training of the future generation of scholars in order to ensure the continuity and development of their traditions of research. Ph.D. students learn and adopt the standards of the profession. They are incited to select what is considered valuable and promising research topics by the profession, but also to commit to particular norms of scientific productions such as writing theses structured by published articles. Hence, the Ph.D. constitutes a good proxy to observe the tensions and transformations of the discipline in France over the period. We exploit a large and novel database of Ph.D. defended in France that combines information we have extracted from these.fr and the sudoc since 1946. It lists information on Ph.D. authors, the contents of the dissertation (title, keywords, abstract, and in the best case, full dissertation), the supervisors and the examinations, as well as the university of the Ph.D. defence.
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Delcey, T., Goutsmedt, A., & Truc, A. (2023). Becoming an economist: the evolution of the Ph.D. in France. Journées Gide 2023, Université Lyon 2 & 3 et Sciences Po Lyon. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/245101