Introduction / Petter Næss and Leigh Price -- Ideology and economics / Tony Lawson -- The economics of research : the contribution of critical realism / David Tyfield -- Inaccurate and biased : cost-benefit analyses of transport infrastructure projects / Petter Næss -- Arguments for and...

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high-dimensional genome that determines their cognitive and physical characteristics. Young adults optimally search for a marriage partner, work for firms, consume goods, save for old age...