This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …

To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses … to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business …

-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are …

for depriving economists of an important professional market (policy advice) and for detaching economics from policy …

crises-related topics. Overall, our findings are consistent with the claim that economists were not engaged sufficiently in … NBER affiliated economists responded dramatically by switching their focus and efforts to studying and understanding the … crisis, its causes and its consequences. Thus, although economists were slow to see the crisis coming, they were fast to act …