Digital historical past of macroeconomics | Largely Economics

Aurélien Goutsmedt and Alexandre Truc have put up digital history of macroeconomics:

The Mapping Macroeconomics undertaking is an internet interactive platform displaying bibliometric knowledge on a big set of macroeconomic articles. It goals at providing a greater understanding of the historical past of macroeconomics by the navigation between the totally different bibliometric networks.

The purpose of departure of the undertaking is the commentary of an exponential enhance within the variety of articles revealed in educational journals in economics because the Nineteen Seventies. This phenomenon makes it more durable for historians of economics to correctly assess the tendencies within the transformation of economics, the primary subjects researched, essentially the most influential authors and concepts, and many others. We take into account that growing collective quantitative instruments may assist historians to confront this problem. The alternatives {that a} quantitative historical past brings are significantly helpful to the current historical past of macroeconomics.

Practising macroeconomists are keen to inform narratives of the evolution of their discipline that serve the aim of intervening on present debates, by giving credit score to explicit authors and weight to particular concepts. Historians who go into this space discover loads of accounts by macroeconomists and need to deal with the huge enhance within the macroeconomic literature because the final quarter of the previous century. The Mapping Macroeconomics platform goals at serving to historians to empirically verify macroeconomists’ narratives on the self-discipline, to discover attention-grabbing patterns on the evolution of macroeconomics, and ultimately to jot down new histories of macroeconomics.

Appears to be like attention-grabbing…

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