a multi-purpose publication with highly disparate content. Over time the economics profession expanded and more … economics research was produced, primarily in the form of journal articles. The AER accommodated this shift by allocating more …

In the United States today the academic field of economic history is much closer to economics than it is to history in … terms of professional behavior, a stylized fact that I call the "integration of economic history into economics". I document … history and economics; and publication histories of successive cohorts of PhDs in the first decade since receiving the …