profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …

estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this …

Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …

Academic economists today are caught in a "Publication Impossibility Theorem Systemʺ or PITS. To further their careers … the losers may react in a harmful way. The paper suggests several ways for improvement. -- Academia ; economists …

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 …