The Dissolution of the Swedish Tradition

Sandelin, Bo; Veiderpass, Ann

doi:10.1215/00182702-28-supp-142

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“…12 It is interesting to note that a Commission formed there suggested in 1992 that Sweden had room only for one large postgraduate department of economics (Sandelin & Veiderpass, 1997). In 1965, the Swedish Journal of Economics changed its name, from Swedish, and published articles only in English.…”

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Top graduate programmes in economics: Historical evolution and recent evidence

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2021

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The first part of the paper provides a novel overview narrative of the historical evolution of PhD programmes in economics from 1880, drawing on multiple sources. The second part is empirical, and, also novel in terms of the data constructed. It attempts to bring the narrative up to date by looking at the cohorts of winners of the main young economist awards in economics in the US and Europe over the last twenty years or so and to chart at which universities they obtained their doctorates and undergraduate degrees. The total number of young (at the time of the award) economists so involved exceeds 350. The evolution of the American-style PhD programme of today is traced to the emigration of European economists to the US from Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s, and its subsequent spread first to Britain and then Continental Europe documented. What is new in the last twenty years or so is the emergence of many Top-50 economics departments in Europe, with corresponding highly regarded PhD programmes. However, in relation to the recent elite young award-winning economists the position in terms of PhD education of Harvard and MIT particularly remains largely unchallenged, in both the US and Europe. I would like to thank the following. Kevin O'Flaherty and Liam Smith, both undergraduate students at the time, kindly hired on Student Internships by the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. They assiduously compiled the data for the empirical section of the paper in the summer of 2019. Denis Murphy for extensive help with the figures and the source data file and Marvin Suesse for helpful comments on an early draft. The Reviewers of earlier versions of this paper, whose comments have substantially improved its focus and accuracy.

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“…Changes were afoot also in some Continental European economies soon after those in Britain. The countries where English was the widely spoken language, were first to follow, for example the Netherland and Sweden (see Sandelin & Veiderpass, 1997; van Winden, 1995). Sweden introduced an American‐style PhD programme as early as 1969.…”

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Top graduate programmes in economics: Historical evolution and recent evidence

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2021

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“…7 See e.g Engwall (1992). for a thorough historical overview of the economics discipline in Sweden, an evaluation of the present educational system and comparisons between research conditions in Sweden and the U.S. See alsoSandelin (1991) andSandelin and Veiderpass (1997) who study different aspects of the internationalization of Swedish economics. © The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1997.…”

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Climbing Career Steps: Becoming a Full Professor of Economics

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Sandelin

1997

Scandinavian J Economics

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Event history analysis is used to examine the process of becoming a full professor of economics in Sweden. The data encompass 256 Swedish doctors' dissertations in economics between 1951 and 1989. A piecewise constant exponential model is specified for the transition risk of becoming a full professor. The risk decreases with age at the defense of a doctoral thesis and increases with the current popularity of the chosen topic and with the number of times appointed faculty opponent. There is no indication of individual-specific unobserved heterogeneity in the preferred model.

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The Dissolution of the Swedish Tradition

Cited by 4 publications

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Top graduate programmes in economics: Historical evolution and recent evidence

Top graduate programmes in economics: Historical evolution and recent evidence

Climbing Career Steps: Becoming a Full Professor of Economics

European Professors as Public Intellectuals

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