Goyal, Sanjeev; Leij, Marco J. van der; … - In: Journal of Political Economy 114 (2006) 2, pp. 403-432
We study the evolution of social distance among economists over the period 1970–2000. While the number of economists has more than doubled, the distance between them, which was already small, has declined significantly. The key to understanding the short average distances is the observation...