Elite economics PhD programs aim to train graduate students for a lifetime of academic research. This paper asks how …

Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each … fewer papers that represent pure theory, regardless of sub-field, somewhat less empirical work based on publicly available …

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too--with more than enough warts …

This paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher's writings on Milton Friedman's work in monetary economics. We focus … first on Fisher's influences in monetary theory (the quantity theory of money, the Fisher effect, Gibson's Paradox, the … monetary theory of business cycles, and the Phillips Curve, and empirics, e.g. distributed lags.). Then we discuss Fisher and …

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …

impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission …

gender, prestige of author's institution, article content (theory vs. empiricism), and whether the author has ties to the …

-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …