Purpose: The global financial crisis led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to...

Introduction 1. The power of rankings in economics and research organizations: an introduction Part I: Rankings and the formation of social hierarchies 2. Why are economists obsessed with rankings? An empirical and theoretical exploration of a field-specific preoccupation 3. Varieties of Truth...