international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a … based on the involvement of one of the selected economists. It was a challenging but dangerous time in economics: a time of …, ranging from the Potsdam Conference in Germany to the Pinochet Coup in Chile. The selected economists include an American, a …

In this paper we study empirically the labor market of economists. We look at the mobility and promotion patterns of a … sample of 1,000 top economists over thirty years and link it to their productivity and other personal characteristics. We … also find evidence that economists respond to incentives. They tend to exert more effort at the beginning of their career …