American Economic Expertise from the Great War to the Cold War: Some Initial Observations

Michael Bernstein ()

The Journal of Economic History, 1990, vol. 50, issue 2, 407-416

Abstract: The twentieth-century American economics profession was privileged and shaped by the federal government's need to direct resources and to call on experts. Bureaucratic tendencies to classify and count had an impact on the discipline's self-concept, subdisciplines, and multiple research agendas. A consensus of professional opinion and the standardization of graduate curriculums emerged out of the involvement of economists with governmental affairs. Moreover, American economists played an important role in the reconstitution of the profession overseas after World War II.

Date: 1990
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