Presenting data on all full-length articles published in the three top general economics journals for one year in each …

-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …

This paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher's writings on Milton Friedman's work in monetary economics. We focus … building blocks for later students of monetary economics. Thus, the Chicago School of the 1930s absorbed Fisher's approach, and …

attention in the economics literature. In this paper, we present a simple model which predicts the core symptoms of depression …

economics, with Marshall’s encouragement. But in later life, Marshall opposed granting Cambridge degrees to women and their … participation in academic economics. This paper recounts Alfred Marshall’s use of gender norms, born out of a separate spheres … ideology, to promote and ingrain women’s exclusion in academic economics and beyond. We demonstrate the persistence of this …

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 …

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … 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 …

impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission …