TY - JOUR AU - Marques, Francisco Moraes da Costa PY - 2022/05/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Capes’ evaluation and the field of Economics: the primacy of the American orthodox mainstream JF - Brazilian Journal of Political Economy JA - BJPE VL - 42 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.1590/0101-31572022-3265 UR - https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org/repojs/index.php/journal/article/view/2329 SP - 378-400 AB - <p>Using the Bourdieusian concept of Field, this article looks at Capes’ evaluation<br>of graduate programs as an expression of the disputes surrounding the very definition of<br>what constitutes Economics. Based on extensive documentary analysis, it demonstrates how<br>the criteria in place are markedly exclusionary. On the one hand, they encourage researchers<br>to adopt the assumptions of neoclassical liberalism, tested by econometric models, in line<br>with American mainstream; on the other hand, they punish, in more or less extent, all other possible theoretical, methodological and thematic approaches, hindering the development of<br>studies built upon the many diverse local Brazilian realities.</p><p><strong>JEL Classification:</strong> N01; B00; A12.</p> ER -