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 …

Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this … particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …

possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in …

We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey … of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively … pressure in recent years is positively related to economists' life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have …

economists, starting with Duncan Foley’s interview with Wassily Leontief in 1998. Other interviews in the series include Ben …

After presenting some casual evidence about the difference between economists and the rest of the population, first the … presented where the citizens decided against recommendations of most economists. But what is so particular in economic theory … respect to the normative convictions of economists. The paper concludes with possible consequences which economists might draw. …

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 …