encompass the emergence of fully liberal political and social theory, and an early version of liberal political practice, in … 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 …

Using data describing all "Top 5" economics journal publications from 1969-2018, we examine what determines which …

This study examines publications in three leading general economics journals from the 1960s through the 2020s …

.D. graduates in economics. We construct a panel dataset of 14,271 individuals who were awarded Ph.D.s between 1986 and 2000 in US … and Canadian economics departments. For this population of scholars, we amass complete records of publications in peer … economics departments and may have important implications for what should constitute a tenurable record. We also find that the …

top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …

economic growth. The theory thus contributes to the understanding of the advent of divergence and overtaking in the process of … development. Consistently with the theory, the empirical analysis establishes that (i) geographical isolation prevalent in pre …