Capes’ evaluation and the field of Economics: the primacy of the American orthodox mainstream

Francisco Moraes da Costa Marques ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2022, vol. 42, issue 2, 378-400

Abstract: Using the Bourdieusian concept of Field, this article looks at Capes’ evaluationof graduate programs as an expression of the disputes surrounding the very definition ofwhat constitutes Economics. Based on extensive documentary analysis, it demonstrates howthe criteria in place are markedly exclusionary. On the one hand, they encourage researchersto adopt the assumptions of neoclassical liberalism, tested by econometric models, in linewith American mainstream; on the other hand, they punish, in more or less extent, all other possible theoretical, methodological and thematic approaches, hindering the development ofstudies built upon the many diverse local Brazilian realities. JEL Classification: N01; B00; A12.

Keywords: Capes evaluation; postgraduate studies; neoclassical orthodoxy; heterodox economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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