This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian … groups driving the growth in top incomes in Canada. A finding more specific to Canada is that the oil and gas sector has also … revolution, scientists, engineers and even computer scientists do not account for much of the growth in top incomes in Canada …

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 …

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 … economists might be interested in their history at all …

To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses … to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business …

, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory. Nevertheless, most economists continue to regard …

reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …

economists on the patterns of their citations. We rely on a sample of 428 papers written by 16 well known economists who died …