We study the importance of economists' professional situation toward their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of...

"The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order" systematically examines the relevance and significance of Hayek's cognitive psychology for economics and social science, and is the only publication of its kind to do so. Sixteen original papers are divided into four parts in this volume: Hayek's...

Front cover -- The Social Science of Hayek's 'The Sensory Order' -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1. The unexpected fertility of Hayek's cognitive theory: An introduction to The social science of Hayek's ''The sensory order'' -- Introduction -- Historical comments...

Am 1. September 2018 veröffentlichte die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ihr neues Ökonomenranking. Der vorliegende Artikel macht einige Anmerkungen zur Methodik und Interpretation. Zudem werden kritische Punkte diskutiert. Abschließend wird ein Vergleich zum Ökonomenranking der RePEc-Website...

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...