The shape of economics before and after the financial crisisAlberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Carlo Debernardihttps://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09079 https://arx…
The shape of economics before and after the financial crisisThis paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on the shape of economics as a discipline by analyzing EconLit-indexed journals from 2006 to 2020 using a multilayer network approach. We consider two types of social relationships among journals, based on shared editors (interlocking editorship) and shared authors (interlocking authorship), as well as two forms of intellectual proximity, derived from bibliographic coupling and textual similarity. These four dimensions are integr…