Paradigms and policies: the state of economics in the German-speaking countries

Jakob Kapeller, Stephan Puehringer and Christian Grimm
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Stephan Pühringer

Review of International Political Economy, 2022, vol. 29, issue 4, 1183-1210

Abstract: This paper studies research interests, paradigmatic orientation and political involvement among roughly 700 full professors of economics at universities located in German-speaking countries. We collect biographical and institutional information on these professorships to derive indicators for research orientation, paradigmatic stance and political involvement. The main contribution of this paper is empirical; it documents the fairly homogeneous paradigmatic stance of German-speaking academic economics, analyzes the interplay between paradigmatic orientation and the policy process and contributes to a better understanding of the role of economic experts in German economic policymaking. Regarding the latter, we found that a highly asymmetric involvement of (under-represented) pluralist/heterodox perspectives relative to (over-represented) ordoliberal views in policy contexts is characteristic of economic policymaking in Germany.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2021.1904269

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