This paper is about economists and their opinions on economic policies. Using a representative sample of Italian … economists as a case study, we show that disagreement is large on both the causes of the economic difficulties in Italy and the …, the degree of pro-market orientation and the level of optimism are all relevant in explaining differences in economists …

Should economists remain as detached scholars, pursuing their research to the satisfaction of themselves and fellow … policy? In this paper, Professor Daniel B. Klein addresses these issues, concluding that if economists want to be influential … which are relevent to policy. Five well known economists, John Fleming, Charles Goodhart, Israel Kirzner, Deirdre McCloskey …

for depriving economists of an important professional market (policy advice) and for detaching economics from policy …

ranking of German economists which not only measures individual economists’ impact on research (via the h-index), but also …

The “FAZ Economists Ranking”, which considers not only economists’ research output but also their political and public … influence, shows that there are very few economists currently doing research that has been taken up widely in the research …- economists. One could argue that the quality of research output does not significantly determine the impact of research on policy …

comparable setting, the individual professional trajectories and scholarly viewpoints of a set of 61 key economists. The analysis …

evolutionary economists try to explain and legitimate policy interventions in local, regional or national innovation systems. The …