In economics many articles are subjected to multiple rounds of refereeing at the same journal, which generates time costs of referees alone of at least $50 million. This process leads to remarkably longer publication lags than in other social sciences. We examine whether repeated refereeing...

Erudite, accessible and lucidly written, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the careers and main published works of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics. It will prove to be an invaluable reference book on key figures in economics and their path-breaking insights. The...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Simon Kuznets (1933), 'National Income', in Edwin R.A. Seligman (ed) and Alvin Johnson (ed) (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Volume Eleven: Morbidity-Parties, Political, New York, NY: Macmillan, 205-24 -- Simon Kuznets (1955), 'Economic...

Gerard Debreu and Herbert Scarf (1963), 'A Limit Theorem on the Core of an Economy', International Economic Review, 4 (3), September, 235-46 -- Gerard Debreu (1970), 'Economies with a Finite Set of Equilibria', Econometrica, 38 (3), May, 387-92 -- Gerard Debreu (1972), 'Smooth Preferences',...

Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott (1991), 'Hours and Employment Variation in Business Cycle Theory', Economic Theory, 1 (1), January, 63-81 -- David K. Backus, Patrick J. Kehoe and Finn E. Kydland (1992), 'International Real Business Cycles', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (4), August,...