and went on to study institutions, helping to establish the New Institutional Economics. His political theory evolved with … influences from Marxism and Public Choice Theory and is reflected in his work in the 1980s. His directorship at the Center in …

profession and analyzes the number and type of awards received by the 1,200 leading economists included in Who's Who in Economics …. First steps towards integrating awards into economic theory are undertaken. -- Awards ; non-monetary incentives ; economics …Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards …

' and recent neoclassical economists' economics as the optimal use of scare resources. Commitment to first principles risks …The role of first principles in economics is examined through the lens of dominant methodological approaches of the … first principles as the basis for deductivist approaches to economics and the widespread belief that economics is an …

sessions at a large economics conference, using the annual meeting of the German Economics Association in 2012 as a case study … registered male economists compared to nearly two-thirds of female economists are attending a session), but seem to ask fewer … questions than men. Men are less likely to attend presentations on health, education, welfare, and development economics than …

Updating the study by Seiler and Wohlrabe (2013) we use archetypoid analysis to classify top economists. The approach … from 776 top economists we identify four archetypoids. These types represent solid, low, top and diligent performer. Each …