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What's debating
Who we are and aims? Debating.it is a bunch of young researchers concerned about the way economic research is carried out. Debating.it brings together sceptical though optimist scholars who share a critical view about how economic research is currently carried on and endorse the role of methodological debate in the scientific progress. Debating.it encourages research activities and public events purposefully aimed at promoting scientific pluralisms in economics and more broadly in the social sciences.
What we did So far Debating.it has organised collective discussion on methodology and supported a series of events involving PhD students, junior and senior researchers – among these the PhD Conference on Research in Economics. The idea of Debating.it is straightforward: pluralism calls for participation, that is, collective discussion about the hidden or explicit choices researcher face with during their day-to-day work.
Why debating is so important? We claim that collective discussion and interaction are relevant learning tools, which have been too often neglected by the profession. These activities are undoubtedly time consuming, mostly stressing, by definition unpredictable, however we believe they are crucial for any good piece of research and prove to be surprisingly effective! Accordingly Debating.it provides young and motivated researchers with a discussion platform whereby to engage in debates with colleagues and other researchers on methodological issues relevant for research in economics. It encourages scientific collaborations between young researchers in areas of common concern with the aim at benefiting from each other’s knowledge and adding value to the content and quality of their respective work. In practice, the above means that everyone brings his/her own piece of knowledge, share ideas with her/his colleagues and contribute to produce a social and collective learning process. More precisely, the outcome of collective discussions is individual, and most probably varies according to the participant, but the process is collective, then individual outcome depends on the way discussion has been carried out. All this is done because we want:
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