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The economics of economists : institutional setting, individual incentives, and future prospects /
Leading scholars investigate the profession of academic economics, with a focus on the intellectual environment and incentives for economic research.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Alessandro Lanteri and Jack Vromen
- Part I. The Institutional Setting of Academic Economics: 1. The culture of academic economics / Arjo Klamer ; 2. The construction of a global profession: the transnationalization of economics / Marion Fourcade ; 3. Academic rankings between the "republic of Science" and "new public management" / Margit Osterloh and Bruno S Frey ; 4. Gatekeepers of economics: the network of editorial boards in economic journals / Alberto Baccini and Lucio Barabesi
- Part II. The Individual Incentives of Professional Economists: 5. Can European economics compete with U.S. economics? And should it? / David Colander ; 6. Career patterns of economics Ph. D.s: a decade of outcomes for the class of 1997 / Wendy Stock and John Siegfried ; 7. Scientific norms and the values of economists: the case of priority fights in economics / Wade Hands
- Part III. Challenges and Solutions: 8. Why economics is on the wrong track / Deirdre McCloskey ; 9. Do we try to teach our students too much? / Robert Frank; 10. The perils of narrative teaching in economics Jack Vromen; 11. Academic women's careers in the social sciences / Donna Ginther and Shulamit Kahn ; 12. Ought (only) economists to defect? Stereotypes, identity, and the prisoner dilemma / Alessandro Lanteri and Salvatore Rizzello ; 13. The financial crisis and the systemic failure of academic economics / David Colander, Hans Follmer, Armin Haas, Michael Goldberg, Katarina Juselius, Alan Kirman, Thomas Lux and Brigitte Sloth
- Index.