Aistleitner, Matthias; Kapeller, Jakob; Steinerberger, … - 2017
In this paper we explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis …. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of intellectual stratification and, as a byproduct … mainstream economics is a highly self-referential intellectual project mostly inaccessible to disciplinary or paradigmatic …