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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is … foibles to show they are human! I contrast the general view of the role of economics in Grand Pursuit with Robert Heilbroner …
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
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Integrating personality psychology into economics
Heckman, James J. - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists …
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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265233
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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269792
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Open Access and Open Assessment: The Future of Peer Reviewed Journals? Experiences with a New Journal in Economics
Siegert, Olaf; Werner-Schwarz, Korinna - 2009
methods. The presentation will showcase “Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal” as one prime example …. “Economics”, as the name indicates, covers papers from all parts of Economic Research. These papers, if accepted, are first … Bank or the London School of Economics (LSE). After a slow start more and more comments and reviews are added to new papers …
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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
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Economics in Europe
Lindbeck, Assar - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 1, pp. 31-32
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A decade of editing the European economic review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - 2011
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...
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Fifty years a-growing: Economic history and demography in the ESR
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty in all, they cover a broad chronological and thematic range. Some of these papers never attracted much notice, but stand as useful sources for future historians. A few have...
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