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ECONOMICS AND RESEARCH ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS |
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Un saggio di Donald Gillies, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science and Mathematics, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London.
This paper seeks to analyse the effects on Economics of Research Assessment Systems, such as the Research Assessment Exercise (or RAE) which was carried out in the UK between 1986 and 2008. The paper begins by pointing out that, in the 2008 RAE, economics turned out to be the research area which was accorded the highest valuation of any subject in the UK, even though economists were then under attack for failing to predict the global financial crash which had occurred a few months earlier. One aim of the paper is to explain this economics anomaly in research assessment. The paper goes on to point out a key difference between economics and the natural sciences. Testo integrale del saggio .
(Fonte: Economic Thought Paper Review 21-08-2012)
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