Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Careers and Networks

Neoliberal Grandfathers: A Genealogical Analysis of Economists’ Careers and Networks

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Friday, March 10, 2017

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Add to calendar

A602 Loeb Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Anne Farquharson, 2777, anne.farquharson@carleton.ca

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No registration required.

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Free

About this Event

Host Organization: Political Science

Research Seminar in Political Science and Political Economy
Kevin Young
Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Kevin Young is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the LSE in 2011, and is a graduate of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He has published widely on the political economy of financial market regulation, elite networks and transnational governance. He is the author (with Thomas Hale and David Held) of Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most.

Using a variety of archival, biographical, and publication data, this paper traces the genealogy of neoliberal economists by differentiating mechanisms related to professional behavior (such as publication productivity, the advancement of particular professional networks) from mechanisms related to selection (such as external funding or hiring practices). It examines the lineages of professional economists based on PhD student-supervisor relationships over the last five decades, and by measuring numerous characteristics of professional advancement it compares the lineages of economists emerging from ‘NeoLiberal Grandfathers’ to their matched peer groups, using historical matching of university prestige and graduate training.

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy.