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![Research paper thumbnail of Documente privind reglementările referitoare la admiterea în învățământul superior din România (1948-1968), București, Editura Universităţii din București, 2013, 178 p. [Volum alcătuit de: Bogdan Murgescu (coord.), Marius Cazan (coord.), Matei Gheboianu, Valentin Maier, Vlad Paşca, Mirela Rotaru]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/65351273/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](Volum elaborat în cadrul proiectului cu numărul PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476, Planificare economică, ... more Volum elaborat în cadrul proiectului cu numărul PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476, Planificare economică, învăţământ superior şi acumularea capitalului uman în România în timpul regimului comunist , susţinut printr-un grant al Consiliului Naţional al Cercetării Ştiinţifice
Papers by Bogdan C Murgescu
Romania: Approaches and Limits of Economic History
Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Dec 31, 2022
Bogdan Murgescu, Eșecul publicării unui articol de Jürgen Kocka în „Studii și articole de istorie”, „Studii şi articole de istorie”, LXXXIII, 2016, p.53-59, 2016
In 2000 the journal "Studii și articole de istorie" planned to publish a set of articles taking s... more In 2000 the journal "Studii și articole de istorie" planned to publish a set of articles taking stock of the historical experience of the 20th century. In this context, the proposal to include an article written by the German historian Jürgen Kocka (for which there was already a Romanian translation available) was rejected by then-president Ioan Scurtu, with the argument that Romanian historians "have more profound knowledge and can produce better argued assessments". Besides documenting the concrete case, the article connects the incident with the more general context of the traditionalist counter-offensive against attempts to rethink history in post-communist Romania, and of the conflicts inside the Romanian Society for Historical Sciences. It also highlights the magnitude of the damage done by such self-sufficient attitudes.
Bogdan Murgescu, Historia magistra vitae? Istoricii profesioniști, pedagogia complexității și agenda publică, în Între pasiune și profesie: istoriografia românească la început de mileniu. Coord.: Ioan-Aurel Pop, Ioan Bolovan, Oana Mihaela Tămaș. Cluj-Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane & Editur..., 2017
„Studii şi articole de istorie”, 2002
Bogdan Murgescu, Mirela-Luminița Murgescu, O instituţie pentru Europa secolului XXI – Academia Europaea, în Petronel Zahariuc, Laurenţiu Rădvan, Liviu Pilat (editori), Istoria ca pasiune: studii oferite profesorului Alexandru-Florin Platon la împlinirea a 65 de ani, Iaşi, Editura Universităţii „A..., 2022
Spaţiul est-carpatic în secolele II a. Chr.-IV p. Chr.: între tradiţia antică şi interpretările m... more Spaţiul est-carpatic în secolele II a. Chr.-IV p. Chr.: între tradiţia antică şi interpretările moderne. I. Tradiţia antică (sursele literare
This paper examines the Romanian economy and its version of capitalism from a long-term perspecti... more This paper examines the Romanian economy and its version of capitalism from a long-term perspective and in a broad context. It focuses on economic prospects in the face of a legacy of backwardness and the endurance of domestic weaknesses, in the context of the Great Recession and the eurozone crisis.
When a group of Romanian students, reachers and school pupils uas asked to classify 4 historical ... more When a group of Romanian students, reachers and school pupils uas asked to classify 4 historical periods (15fi) 1800, lltull9l4, l9l8-1940. 191'1 1989) according to the economic p€rformance of Romania compared with the economic level of the developed countries of those p€riods. most of them answered that it was during the interwar period thar Romania had performed best economically.l This vision conrasts with the pessimistic image conveyed by most ofthe major historical narratives oo the 20' century. ln fact, the most renowned schola$ assess the economic performance of the inlcrwar period severely, describing it as a time of crises and global economic slowdown. Eric Hobsbawm speaks about the "economic abyss" of an "age of catastrophe , while Aogus Maddison states with regard to the period l9l3 1950: "This was an era deeply distu$ed by war, depression, and beggar your neighbor policies. It was a bleak a.ge, whose polential for accelerated growth was frustmled by a series of disasters."
International Review of Social Research
Student assessment of professors emerged in the context of university democratization and increas... more Student assessment of professors emerged in the context of university democratization and increasing involvement of students in the management of the higher education institutions. It was institutionalized mainly as an instrument to gradually improve the quality of teaching, and only rarely used as an element determining the hiring and firing of the academic staff. In Romania, it came to the forefront only in the context of the Revolution of December 1989, when students started to question the competence of their professors and asked for the removal of those whom they considered unfit. The article focuses on the concrete case of the “black list” issued by the history students in the University of Bucharest, and on the way this revolutionary challenge shaped the institutional governance and the further development of the Faculty of History. The analysis refutes attempts to consider this episode as a politically-motivated purge and to integrate it in the master-narrative of post-commu...
Exploring the Reliability of Research Indicators Reported by Romanian Universities in 2019, „Journal of Research in Higher Education”, vol.V, 2021, no.1, p.96-122. , 2021
The paper focuses on the aggregate data published by the National Council for Higher Education Fi... more The paper focuses on the aggregate data published by the National Council for Higher Education Financing regarding the research section of the quality indicators reported by Romanian public universities in 2019 and used for the allocation of the performance-based additional funding. The research section includes 4 indicators, which amount to 46% of the additional funding, i.e. to an average of about 10% of the total institutional funding from the public budget. The data are reported by the Romanian universities each odd year since 2015, and for the first time in 2020 national rankings for most indicators and some national averages have been made public. The data is extremely valuable for a diagnosis of the Romanian higher education system and for highlighting the performance of various universities. Therefore, the accuracy of these data is crucial. The authors of this paper acknowledge the efforts of the National Council for Higher Education Financing and of its staff provided by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation to check the data reported by the universities, but also the limits of the current verification process. The paper uses statistical methods to identify outliers and investigates the rankings for a selection of fields of science, by using three among the four research indicators. Thus, it discusses some of the more blatant reporting anomalies which contradict the pre-existing conceptions regarding the comparative performance of universities. While the statistical findings do not support the suspicions of systematic attempts of over-reporting the research outcomes at university-level, they still outline several persisting errors. These
Bogdan Murgescu, Teaching multiperspectivity in 21st century Europe: challenges and limits of extra-curricular historical education projects, în Edgar Wolfrum, Odila Triebel, Cord Arendes, Angela Siebold, Joana Duyster Borredà (eds.), European Commemoration: Locating World War I, Stuttgart, ifa E..., 2016
Geschichte als politisches Argument im Transformationsprozeß Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropas
Rumänien galt vor 1989 als ein Land mit einer stark von nationalistischen Geschichtsbildern geprä... more Rumänien galt vor 1989 als ein Land mit einer stark von nationalistischen Geschichtsbildern geprägten Politik und Kultur. Der damalige Partei-und Staatschef Ceau §escu bezog sich in fast allen Reden auf die "Lehren der Geschichte", und geschichtliche Ereignisse wurden öffentlich mit großem Aufwand gefeiert. In der rumänischen Revolution vom Dezember 1989 spielten jedoch die Geschichtsbilder kaum eine Rolle. Ceau$escus Versuche, historische Feindbilder wie die Ungarn und die "Großmächte" zu kapitalisieren, fanden so gut wie keinen Anklang. Für die meisten Revolutionsteilnehmer war es selbstverständlich, daß ihr Ziel nicht das Wiederherstellen einer idealisierten Vergangenheit war, sondern der Anschluß an eine zeitgenössische europäische "Normalität" 1. 37 Istoria romänilor, Bd. I-IV (Bukarest 2001). Obwohl der Akademiepräsident Eugen Simion im Vorwort die Hoffnung äußert, daß das Handbuch bald die ganze Geschichte der Rumänen bis zur neuesten Zeit darstellen wird (Istoria, Bd. I, XIII), erklärt in der Einleitung der Herausgeber des Handbuches, Dan Berindei, daß der 9. Band (über die kommunistische Zeit) erst "in den folgenden Jahren" geschrieben werden soll und daß der 10. Band zum Post-Kommunismus und der 11. Band zur Geschichtsschreibung eigentlich in einer unbestimmten Zukunft erscheinen werden (Istoria, Bd. I, XVII). Es ist offensichtlich, daß die Vorbereitung der letzten drei Bände noch nicht begonnen hat, und man darf zweifeln, ob die nationalistischen Historiker eigentlich eine ernste Absicht dazu für die nähere Zukunft haben. 38 Dan Berindei, in: Istoria, Bd. I, XIX. 39 >http://www.academiaromana.ro/academia2002/acadrom/pag09_08.htm<. 40 Unter den 59 Ko-Autoren sind nur vier nach 1946 geborene Historiker (also unter 55 Jahre alt), und etwa die Hälfte der Autoren sind über 70 Jahre alt oder schon verstorben.
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2015
Argonaut eBooks, 2022
De la Rezistență sau cedare, la Ostași, vă ordon: Treceți Prutul! România, un pion în "marele vâr... more De la Rezistență sau cedare, la Ostași, vă ordon: Treceți Prutul! România, un pion în "marele vârtej" .
Volum elaborat în cadrul proiectului cu numărul PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476, Planificare economică, ... more Volum elaborat în cadrul proiectului cu numărul PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0476, Planificare economică, învăţământ superior şi acumularea capitalului uman în România în timpul regimului comunist , susţinut printr-un grant al Consiliului Naţional al Cercetării Ştiinţifice
Romania: Approaches and Limits of Economic History
Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Dec 31, 2022
Bogdan Murgescu, Eșecul publicării unui articol de Jürgen Kocka în „Studii și articole de istorie”, „Studii şi articole de istorie”, LXXXIII, 2016, p.53-59, 2016
In 2000 the journal "Studii și articole de istorie" planned to publish a set of articles taking s... more In 2000 the journal "Studii și articole de istorie" planned to publish a set of articles taking stock of the historical experience of the 20th century. In this context, the proposal to include an article written by the German historian Jürgen Kocka (for which there was already a Romanian translation available) was rejected by then-president Ioan Scurtu, with the argument that Romanian historians "have more profound knowledge and can produce better argued assessments". Besides documenting the concrete case, the article connects the incident with the more general context of the traditionalist counter-offensive against attempts to rethink history in post-communist Romania, and of the conflicts inside the Romanian Society for Historical Sciences. It also highlights the magnitude of the damage done by such self-sufficient attitudes.
Bogdan Murgescu, Historia magistra vitae? Istoricii profesioniști, pedagogia complexității și agenda publică, în Între pasiune și profesie: istoriografia românească la început de mileniu. Coord.: Ioan-Aurel Pop, Ioan Bolovan, Oana Mihaela Tămaș. Cluj-Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane & Editur..., 2017
„Studii şi articole de istorie”, 2002
Bogdan Murgescu, Mirela-Luminița Murgescu, O instituţie pentru Europa secolului XXI – Academia Europaea, în Petronel Zahariuc, Laurenţiu Rădvan, Liviu Pilat (editori), Istoria ca pasiune: studii oferite profesorului Alexandru-Florin Platon la împlinirea a 65 de ani, Iaşi, Editura Universităţii „A..., 2022
Spaţiul est-carpatic în secolele II a. Chr.-IV p. Chr.: între tradiţia antică şi interpretările m... more Spaţiul est-carpatic în secolele II a. Chr.-IV p. Chr.: între tradiţia antică şi interpretările moderne. I. Tradiţia antică (sursele literare
This paper examines the Romanian economy and its version of capitalism from a long-term perspecti... more This paper examines the Romanian economy and its version of capitalism from a long-term perspective and in a broad context. It focuses on economic prospects in the face of a legacy of backwardness and the endurance of domestic weaknesses, in the context of the Great Recession and the eurozone crisis.
When a group of Romanian students, reachers and school pupils uas asked to classify 4 historical ... more When a group of Romanian students, reachers and school pupils uas asked to classify 4 historical periods (15fi) 1800, lltull9l4, l9l8-1940. 191'1 1989) according to the economic p€rformance of Romania compared with the economic level of the developed countries of those p€riods. most of them answered that it was during the interwar period thar Romania had performed best economically.l This vision conrasts with the pessimistic image conveyed by most ofthe major historical narratives oo the 20' century. ln fact, the most renowned schola$ assess the economic performance of the inlcrwar period severely, describing it as a time of crises and global economic slowdown. Eric Hobsbawm speaks about the "economic abyss" of an "age of catastrophe , while Aogus Maddison states with regard to the period l9l3 1950: "This was an era deeply distu$ed by war, depression, and beggar your neighbor policies. It was a bleak a.ge, whose polential for accelerated growth was frustmled by a series of disasters."
International Review of Social Research
Student assessment of professors emerged in the context of university democratization and increas... more Student assessment of professors emerged in the context of university democratization and increasing involvement of students in the management of the higher education institutions. It was institutionalized mainly as an instrument to gradually improve the quality of teaching, and only rarely used as an element determining the hiring and firing of the academic staff. In Romania, it came to the forefront only in the context of the Revolution of December 1989, when students started to question the competence of their professors and asked for the removal of those whom they considered unfit. The article focuses on the concrete case of the “black list” issued by the history students in the University of Bucharest, and on the way this revolutionary challenge shaped the institutional governance and the further development of the Faculty of History. The analysis refutes attempts to consider this episode as a politically-motivated purge and to integrate it in the master-narrative of post-commu...
Exploring the Reliability of Research Indicators Reported by Romanian Universities in 2019, „Journal of Research in Higher Education”, vol.V, 2021, no.1, p.96-122. , 2021
The paper focuses on the aggregate data published by the National Council for Higher Education Fi... more The paper focuses on the aggregate data published by the National Council for Higher Education Financing regarding the research section of the quality indicators reported by Romanian public universities in 2019 and used for the allocation of the performance-based additional funding. The research section includes 4 indicators, which amount to 46% of the additional funding, i.e. to an average of about 10% of the total institutional funding from the public budget. The data are reported by the Romanian universities each odd year since 2015, and for the first time in 2020 national rankings for most indicators and some national averages have been made public. The data is extremely valuable for a diagnosis of the Romanian higher education system and for highlighting the performance of various universities. Therefore, the accuracy of these data is crucial. The authors of this paper acknowledge the efforts of the National Council for Higher Education Financing and of its staff provided by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation to check the data reported by the universities, but also the limits of the current verification process. The paper uses statistical methods to identify outliers and investigates the rankings for a selection of fields of science, by using three among the four research indicators. Thus, it discusses some of the more blatant reporting anomalies which contradict the pre-existing conceptions regarding the comparative performance of universities. While the statistical findings do not support the suspicions of systematic attempts of over-reporting the research outcomes at university-level, they still outline several persisting errors. These
Bogdan Murgescu, Teaching multiperspectivity in 21st century Europe: challenges and limits of extra-curricular historical education projects, în Edgar Wolfrum, Odila Triebel, Cord Arendes, Angela Siebold, Joana Duyster Borredà (eds.), European Commemoration: Locating World War I, Stuttgart, ifa E..., 2016
Geschichte als politisches Argument im Transformationsprozeß Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropas
Rumänien galt vor 1989 als ein Land mit einer stark von nationalistischen Geschichtsbildern geprä... more Rumänien galt vor 1989 als ein Land mit einer stark von nationalistischen Geschichtsbildern geprägten Politik und Kultur. Der damalige Partei-und Staatschef Ceau §escu bezog sich in fast allen Reden auf die "Lehren der Geschichte", und geschichtliche Ereignisse wurden öffentlich mit großem Aufwand gefeiert. In der rumänischen Revolution vom Dezember 1989 spielten jedoch die Geschichtsbilder kaum eine Rolle. Ceau$escus Versuche, historische Feindbilder wie die Ungarn und die "Großmächte" zu kapitalisieren, fanden so gut wie keinen Anklang. Für die meisten Revolutionsteilnehmer war es selbstverständlich, daß ihr Ziel nicht das Wiederherstellen einer idealisierten Vergangenheit war, sondern der Anschluß an eine zeitgenössische europäische "Normalität" 1. 37 Istoria romänilor, Bd. I-IV (Bukarest 2001). Obwohl der Akademiepräsident Eugen Simion im Vorwort die Hoffnung äußert, daß das Handbuch bald die ganze Geschichte der Rumänen bis zur neuesten Zeit darstellen wird (Istoria, Bd. I, XIII), erklärt in der Einleitung der Herausgeber des Handbuches, Dan Berindei, daß der 9. Band (über die kommunistische Zeit) erst "in den folgenden Jahren" geschrieben werden soll und daß der 10. Band zum Post-Kommunismus und der 11. Band zur Geschichtsschreibung eigentlich in einer unbestimmten Zukunft erscheinen werden (Istoria, Bd. I, XVII). Es ist offensichtlich, daß die Vorbereitung der letzten drei Bände noch nicht begonnen hat, und man darf zweifeln, ob die nationalistischen Historiker eigentlich eine ernste Absicht dazu für die nähere Zukunft haben. 38 Dan Berindei, in: Istoria, Bd. I, XIX. 39 >http://www.academiaromana.ro/academia2002/acadrom/pag09_08.htm<. 40 Unter den 59 Ko-Autoren sind nur vier nach 1946 geborene Historiker (also unter 55 Jahre alt), und etwa die Hälfte der Autoren sind über 70 Jahre alt oder schon verstorben.
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2015
Argonaut eBooks, 2022
De la Rezistență sau cedare, la Ostași, vă ordon: Treceți Prutul! România, un pion în "marele vâr... more De la Rezistență sau cedare, la Ostași, vă ordon: Treceți Prutul! România, un pion în "marele vârtej" .
Economic revival in East Central Europe after the Great War
Routledge eBooks, Feb 22, 2022
Transition, Transitions: The Conceptualization of Change in Romanian Culture
Key Concepts of Romanian History
Bogdan Murgescu - recenzie la Alex Mihai Stoenescu, Istoria loviturilor de stat în România. Vol. 4. “Revoluţia din decembrie 1989 – o tragedie românească”, părţile I-II, Bucureşti, RAO, 2004-2005, 768 + 832 p., în Bogdan Murgescu (coord.), Revoluţia română din decembrie 1989: istorie şi memorie, ..., 2007
Bogdan Murgescu - recenzie la Alex Mihai Stoenescu, Istoria loviturilor de stat în România. Vol. 4. “Revoluţia din decembrie 1989 – o tragedie românească”, părţile I-II, Bucureşti, RAO, 2004-2005, 768 + 832 p., în Bogdan Murgescu (coord.), Revoluţia română din decembrie 1989: istorie şi memorie, ..., 2007
