Controlling the field of academic economics in Hungary, 1953–1976     

György Péteri 《Minerva》1996,34(4):367-380

Conclusions On the basis of these findings, I suggest that the structure and organisation of the field of Hungarian economics under state socialism should be described as a case of partitioned bureaucracy.⁹ The compromise between research economists and the political elite in the New Course era between 1953 and 1955¹⁰ survived the post-1956 reaction in so far as political economy, with its predominantly legitimatory and ideological functions, remained partitioned from the other sectors in the field through the remainder of the state-socialist period. This secured considerable protection both for Marxist-Leninist political economy—which faced the destabilising effects of exposure to the findings of serious empirical research—and for the other sectors, which were professionally oriented and earnestly interested in the pursuit of unbiased empirical research, free from stifling agitprop interference. Our data concerning the reputational control of the field reflects only one, although very important, aspect of this partitioning. Another and much plainer aspect is that, from the early 1960s, the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee no longer exercised control over the field, except in the political economy sector.The proposition about the mechanism paradigm should not be taken seriously as a statement of a Kuhnian type of intellectual organisation of Hungarian economics, with reform economics at its hard theoretical core. But it should certainly be taken seriously as a reflection of the sociopolitical structure which emerged and developed from the mid-1950s onwards. Neither the politicians nor the economists saw as necessary or even contemplated the integration of Hungarian economic research with Western mainstream economic thought. In exchange for the professional expertise and socio-economic intelligence necessary for the exercise of power, Hungary's state-socialist political class offered their economists relative autonomy and freedom from interference. The price the economists had to pay was partly to refrain from openly and systematically challenging the beliefs perpetuated by the political economy of socialism, and partly to accept in their research the paramountcy of policy orientation. But this burden they assumed willingly since it made them the only group within Hungary's academic intelligentsia—indeed, the only group in Hungarian society outside the political class—with the privilege of being coopted to the institutions with power over some restricted domains of policymaking. After 1989, especially under the conservative Antall government, this proved less than advantageous.¹¹ Although the benevolence of many critics is open to question, it could greatly benefit the field if the economists' expulsion from contemporary politics went hand in hand with provision of the material, intellectual and institutional conditions for a new approach where a fundamentally scientific orientation is paramount.  相似文献   

AAMC STAT: a brief description     

Pfeiffer S 《Medical reference services quarterly》1997,16(2):23-25

AAMC STAT is a new, weekly electronic newsletter produced by the American Association of Medical Colleges. It provides coverage of national news related to academic medicine. This article briefly reviews the electronic publication and gives directions for subscribing to AAMC STAT.  相似文献   

Slide-tape library instruction     

Hall VB  Krautheim D  Hansra BS 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1978,66(3):361-362

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Dean behavior     

Kolner SJ 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1980,68(3):303-304

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Book reviews     

Wert LM  Etter SC  Chitty ME 《Medical reference services quarterly》1983,2(3):97-102

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Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit determinations in special libraries.     

H S White 《Special libraries》1979,70(4):163-169

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Governments,foundations and the bias of research     

E. S.  Theodore W. Schultz 《Minerva》1979,17(3):459-468

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Scientific research as an occupation in eighteenth-century Paris     

Roger Hahn 《Minerva》1975,13(4):501-513

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The right to speak in American Universities: Yale University     

E. S. 《Minerva》1975,13(2):305-321

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Medical Librarianship in Nigeria--a review of the literature and comments on some problems and prospects.     

G S Belleh 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1975,63(2):199-208

The literature of medical librarianship of Nigeria is reviewed. The staff structure of Nigerian univeristy libraries and, in particular, of the medical libraries attached to them is restrictive, unprogressive, and unconducive to the development of medical librarianship in Nigeria. These medical libraries should cease to be administered and regarded as just unavoidable appendages of the main university libraries. They should be independent, full-fledged libraries of their own, recognixed as full academic departments of their respective colleges or faculties, with their heads being in no way inferior in status to other heads of academic departments.The granting of faculty status to Nigerian unviersity librarians should go the whole way and let the principle of multiple professorships be applied to the staff structure of unviersity libraries. Efforts are being made to effect bibliographic organization of Nigerian medical literature. A national library of medicine for Nigeria, however, humble its beginning, should be established.  相似文献