I argue that economists have reasons internal to the way that evidence works in the sciences to re-discover the importance of the history of their own discipline. For it is a constitutive element of science - here conceived as an ongoing research practice (as opposed to as an explanatory...

Every finance professional employs the concept of market efficiency. The theory, evidence and counterevidence focus on a couple of dozen highly influential articles published during the twentieth century. We summarise the origins of and interlinkages between these contributions to the history of...

This study provides evidence that accounting researchers have not fully appreciated the sensitivity of empirical results to (necessarily) subjective research design choices, and that this failure has led to the subsequent overgeneralization of early evidence. Specifically, we trace the evolution...

This paper discusses why mathematical economists of the early Cold War period favored formal-axiomatic over behavioral choice theories. One reason was that formal-axiomatic theories allowed mathematical economists to improve the conceptual and theoretical foundations of economics and thereby to...

This article traces a normative turn between the middle of the 1940s and the early 1950s reflected in the reformulation, interpretation, and use of rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. This turn is paralleled by a transition from Jacob Marschak's to...

Faff (2015, 2016, 2017a, 2017b); Faff, Godfrey and Teng (2016); Maxwell (2017); Nguyen, et al. (2017); Salehudin (2017); Teng and Faff (2017) (amongst others) represents a rich landscape for the “pitching research” phenomenon. The current paper documents the pitches presented by 6 finalists...

This paper has two purposes: first, to survey existing quantitative analyses of economics and the economics profession; and, second, to suggest that a more rigorous quantitative approach towards certain aspects of the subject will not be possible until historians of economic thought take fuller...

Spanning a 10-week period over the Southern Summer of 2016-7, six University of Queensland Research Scholars signed up to be part of a unique cohort focused on “pitching research” [PR] – in the “i-TEMPLATES” team. The Summer Research Scholars engaged in a range of pitching activities...