Знание за институциите, институции на знанието
Knowledge about Institutions, Institutions of Knowledge

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the findings for Bulgaria of the DIOSCURI project’s third dimension dealing with intellectual encounters between East and West in the field of economic science. The research is based on interviews with Bulgarian economists and sociologists whereas the transfer of ideas has been thoroughly discussed. The reception of the „New institutional economics“ messages by the local scholarly community is traced. Many specific accents, biases and models of instrumentalization that accompany the perception of an „imported“ school of thought are detected. The profile of a center devoted to applied economic research (the Agency for Economic Analyses and Forecasts) is considered. Discussed are the personal and functional forces that shape its economic vision, its peculiar handling of economic theory, instruments and analytical techniques. The results exhibit the Bulgarian economic research community’s propensity to confine itself to the role of recipient of theory and its lack of ambitions to produce original universal contributions. The one-way paths of ideas, the marked parochialism and the transfer’s asymmetry are confirmed. The unavoidable institutional seal formatting and molding the space of the intellectual encounters is substantiated.

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