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The quantitative evaluation of research performance in business administration has recently gained some attention in German-speaking countries. This holds especially for rankings of persons, which are discussed controversially. Rankings of academics can be constructed in two different ways,...
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sessions at a large economics conference, using the annual meeting of the German Economics Association in 2012 as a case study … questions than men. Men are less likely to attend presentations on health, education, welfare, and development economics than …
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This is paper analyses the interrelationship between perceived journal relevance and reputation. Based on a survey of 705 members of the German Economic Association, we find a strong interrelationship between journal reputation and relevance where a journal's perceived relevance has a stronger...
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This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a … survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields … methods developed in labor and conflict economics. We find a positive relationship between the study of economics and …
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huge influence on how economics in Cambridge has been taught and researched. He held leadership positions in the Faculty of … Economics and Politics at Cambridge for 25 years, between 1955 and 1980. The main purpose of this paper is to explain Reddaway …'s method and his distinct approach to economics. It also briefly reviews his life and times. The words in the title summarise …
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The aim of this paper is to systematically enquire into the relationship Robbins sets in his writings - prior to the Essay and further brought out in several subsequent works - between 'economic science' and 'political economy' in order to understand the role of each in the work of the...
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for depriving economists of an important professional market (policy advice) and for detaching economics from policy … considerations. Most critics considered Robbins' Essay as the manifesto of a mechanical, 'ivory-tower' concept of economics. In fact …. Economics is definitely an autonomous (from ethics and politics) science as a set of knowledge-methodology but it has a high …
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attitudes towards methodological principles in economics. For the majority of economic propositions personal values matter … produced and in agreement with Milton Friedman's view on positive economics. Female economists are at some notable points less …
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performance of Turkish economists and economics departments has improved rapidly over the years but they are still performing … Citation Index (SSCI) Economics Journals, but the concentration ratio is decreasing overtime; (6) publication performance and …
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The publish-or-perish principle has become a fact of academic life in gaining a position or being promoted. Evidence is mounting that benefits of this pressure is being countered by the downsides, notably by means of scientific misconduct or forms of goal displacement by scientists. In this...
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