Viral Economics : An Epidemiological Model of Knowledge Diffusion in Economics

We model the diffusion of economic knowledge using an epidemiological model of susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered populations (SEIR). Treating bibliographic citations as evidence of contagion, we estimate the coefficients of a four-equation system simultaneously for each of 759 subfields of economics. Results show that some subfields grow endogenously much faster than others, and just over half have basic reproduction properties sufficient to ensure survival without the annual addition of new protégé scholars

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Gurley, Nicole ; Johnson, Daniel K. N.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Wissenstransfer \| Knowledge transfer \| Theorie \| Theory \| Innovationsdiffusion \| Innovation diffusion \| Epidemie \| Epidemic

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 14, 2011 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1927126 [DOI]
Classification:	O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development ; A14 - Sociology of Economics ; B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 ; I2 - Education
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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