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clients and peers? Is economics scholarship uniquely insular? We address these questions by quantifying interactions between … economics and other disciplines. Changes in the impact of economic scholarship are measured here by the way other disciplines … cite us. We document a clear rise in the extramural influence of economic research, while also showing that economics is …
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the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth …
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Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by government intervention? To answer this question, this paper introduces diversity to the canonical model of "warm glow" giving. Diversity may have two effects on incentives: it may...
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of a pluralism without privilege, but they also had doubts about its possibility. They offered some reasons to prefer … pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the … preeminent fact of modern state consolidation, and that purely voluntary, equal, associational pluralism might not be powerful …
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Many studies find that presentation of balanced information, offering competing positions, can promote polarization and thus increase preexisting social divisions. We offer two explanations for this apparently puzzling phenomenon. The first involves what we call asymmetric Bayesianism: the same...
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compensates researchers based on their primary discipline, an outcome that challenges emphases on interdisciplinarity. While our …
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Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments are typically higher than the social returns to other types of investment, any...
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We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that complement other factors of economic production. Aggregate ecosystem services are produced by combining several...
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