We document economists' opinions about what is worth knowing and ask (i) which research objectives economic research … economic researchers who publish in English. We report three main findings. First, economists' opinions are vastly … economics as a field does not appreciate and work on what economists collectively prefer. …

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

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 and …'s remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might …

; selection correction ; panel data ; education ; student performance ; class absence …