Neoliberalismus ist eine Sackgasse. Wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitische Alternativen sind bitter nötig. Die Mehrzahl der bereits vorhandenen Gegenentwürfe ist moralisch oder utopisch. Schon die Forderung nach einer gerechteren Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen verheddert sich in der...

Abstract Der ‘Big Trade Off’, den Arthur Okun schon vor über dreißig Jahren formulierte, ist zurück. Ökonomische Effizienz und soziale Gleichheit erscheinen unvereinbar. Oder anders: Moderne Gesellschaften müssen sich zwischen der Scylla hoher Einkommensungleichheit oder der Charybdis...

Awards play a large role in the economics profession, which is documented by the large variety and number of awards. However, little scientific attention has been devoted to them. This paper documents the prevalence of awards in the economics profession and analyzes the number and type of awards...

Evolutionary economics is a paradigm for explaining the transformation of the economy. To achieve its goal, it needs being founded on a proper theory of economic behavior. The paper discusses these foundations. It is argued that the historical malleability of economic behavior is based on the...

In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in the multi-billion pound Research Assessment Exercise...

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the fallacy - one seen in the popular press and the research literature - that to measure discrimination it is sufficient to study averages within two populations. The paper's...

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication checking on others' published papers using their data and scientific replication using data representing different populations in one's own work or in a Comment. Several...