The UK research assessment exercise and the narrowing of UK economics

Lee, Frederic and Pham, Xuan and Gu, Gyun (2012): The UK research assessment exercise and the narrowing of UK economics.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to delineate an empirically grounded, structure-causal going concern recursive model of UK economics that, in the context of the RAE and local department decision-making, explains the progressive elimination of heterodox economics, the progressive homogenization of mainstream economics from 1992 to the present, and the continued rise to dominance of a select group of departments, and indicates whether these ‘regularities’ will continue under the Research Excellence Framework selectivity exercise in 2014.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: UK Economics, Research Assessment Exercise, Critical Realism
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B50 - General; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A14 - Sociology of Economics; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists

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