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Divided we stand? : professional consensus and political conflict in academic economics
Beyer, Karl M.; Pühringer, Stephan - 2019
In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists … of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel for economists to exert public influence. We base our analysis … petitions and economists based on the social structure of petition networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124648
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The neoclassicals' conundrum : if Adam Smith is the father of economics, it is a bastard child
Valdes Viera, Oscar - 2017
Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith’s theories to certify the validity …, and the field of study he afforded to political economy. Instead, early neoclassical economists parted ways with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695560
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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792185
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How should research performance be measured? : a study of Swedish economists
Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - 2010 - [Revised december 2010]
Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793605
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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193828
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372501
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First author determinants : an empirical analysis
Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2006
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333873
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Attracting attentive academics : paper, person or place?
Günther, Isabel; Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan - 2015
registered male economists compared to nearly two-thirds of female economists are attending a session), but seem to ask fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285460
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The golden age of Nobel economists
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 1997
average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of … breeding ground for original economists. Furthermore,most fundamental work has been written alone and this finding contrasts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371109
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How to attract an audience at a conference : paper, person or place?
Günther, Isabel; Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan - 2016
We analyze the drivers of the size of the audience and number of questions asked in parallel sessions at the annual conference of the German Economics Association. We find that the location of the presentation is at least as important for the number of academics attending a talk as the combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497283