The concept of the “clinical professor” – sometimes referred to as a “professor of practice,” or something similar – is in widespread use in academe. Economics and business disciplines all now entertain the prospect of teaching specialists. This study extends prior research on economics scholarship at liberal arts colleges by examining whether clinical economics faculty are invested in a program of research. After discussing conceptual arguments for why one should expect to see clinical economics faculty engaging in research, we examine citations data for clinical faculty in economics who are affiliated with what U.S. News & World Report classifies as national colleges and universities. That examination reveals that the 206 clinical faculty employed across the 90 institutions have produced academic scholarship that has garnered about 125,000 citations. Moreover, a deeper exploration suggests that the research ethos pervading the clinical economics faculties employed by America's large research universities appears to be quite similar to that characterizing the economics departments at liberal arts colleges.

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当宽恕战胜许可时：探索经济学临床教师的学术精神

“临床教授”的概念——有时被称为“实践教授”或类似的东西——在学术界广泛使用。经济学和商业学科现在都拥有教学专家的前景。这项研究通过检查临床经济学教师是否投资于研究项目，扩展了先前对文理学院经济学奖学金的研究。在讨论了为什么人们应该期望看到临床经济学教师从事研究的概念性论证之后，我们检查了属于《美国新闻与世界报道》归类为国立学院和大学的经济学临床教师的引文数据。该调查显示，90 家机构雇用的 206 名临床教职人员所取得的学术奖学金已获得约 125,000 次引用。此外，更深入的探索表明，美国大型研究型大学临床经济学系所采用的研究精神似乎与文理学院经济系的研究精神非常相似。