The Research Assessment Exercise, the state and the dominance of mainstream economics in British universities

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 309-325

  Lee, Frederic S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterodox economics; Research assessment exercise

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; RANKING; RESEARCH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847737862     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bel021     Document Type: Article

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