Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is held to...

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...

Moderne Ökonomie und Sozialpsychologie beschäftigen sich beide mit der Erklärungmenschlichen Verhaltens. Dieser Artikel gibt eine Übersicht über die Interaktion zwischen denbeiden Wissenschaften...