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Do rankings promote excellence, preserve quality or only construct hierarchy and exclusion? These questions will be discussed at the workshop on 20-22 July at the JKU.
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From 20.-22. July the workshop "Rankings and the structure of the economic sciences: promoting excellence, preserving academic quality, or constructing hierarchies and exclusions?" will take place at JKU.
Different study results from international scientists will be presented. Here you can find more informationen about the topic, opens a file and the porgramme, opens a file.
21 July 2022
| 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:30 | Quantification of Science The Network Determinants of Publishing in Top 5 Journals. Evidence from the Swiss Field of Economics Professors (1991-2020) Thierry Rossier |
| 10:15 | The Performativity of Competitization in Academia Stephan Pühringer & Georg Wolfmayr |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | On the Quantification of Quality: A revised model for evaluating scientific excellence Johanna Rath |
| 12:15: | Wrap up Discussion: Quantification of Science and its implications |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | The Construction of Economic Expertise Research Organizations: public policy and the search of excellence Luísa Veloso & Helena Carvalho |
| 15:15 | Putting Rankings in Place: from “economics as science” to the economic expert dispositif Jens Maesse |
| 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | Is Alternative Economic Expertise Intelligible? Peer review, Evaluative Criteria and Disciplinary Hierarchy Ellen D. Russell |
| 17:15 | Wrap up Discussion: The Construction of Economic Expertise and its implications |
| 18:00 | End Day 1 and workshop dinner |
22 July 2022
| 9:30 | The current state of economics and its implications How evaluation practices in macroeconomics threaten objectivity: Complementing the “what went wrong” story with a social epistemology perspective Teemu Lari |
| 10:15 | How rankings consolidate the paradigmatic monism in economics Rouven Reinke |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Scientific understanding and mathematical modelling in economics Rodrigo Lopez-Orellana and Bralind Kiri |
| 12:15 | Wrap up Discussion: The current state of economics and its implications |
| 13:00 | End Day 2 |
