Using information collected from American Economic Review publications of the last 100 years, we try to provide answers to various questions: Which are the top AER publishing institutions and countries? Which are the top AER papers based on citation success? How frequently is someone able to...

In the evolution of economic history, the economic neoliberalism can be considered one of the most important. On the one hand, neoliberalism is a promoter of freedom in decision making process and competition. On the other hand, the market and its capability to supply information for the...

Ben Bernanke researched monetary policy for over 25 years prior to becoming a policymaker, and his two-term career as Chairman of the Federal Reserve featured a severe recession coupled with a nancial crisis, a chief subject of Bernanke's research. His reaction to economic events is noteworthy...

Jacques Léon Rueff (1896-1978) is one of the great French economists of the twentieth century, yet today it is largely unknown. The recurrence of financial crises around the world is an opportunity to rediscover the originality of thought of that great liberal writer who was an advisor to...

In this article, Alessandro Roncaglia renders a careful and detailed intellectual tribute to the memory of Paolo Sylos Labini. Roncaglia’s contribution provides at once a biographical account and recounts the intellectual trajectory of his Italian colleague. While Sylos Labini’s theory of...

The economic crisis unleashed criticism of the economics profession in the popular press and raised discussions about the adequacy of traditional economics education to new levels. This paper considers how the criticism of traditional economics and economics education, highlighted by the crisis,...