really an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate … places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too--with more than enough warts … economists might be interested in their history at all …

abandonment of economic theory in applied work in the “experimentalist paradigm.” We document the changes implied by the changing …-55, 1974-75 and 2007-08. We also show that, despite the partial abandonment of theory by applied microeconomists, the labor … market for economists still pays a wage premium to theorists …

The Austrian theory of the "marginal use" is restated and extended. It is found that the Austrian concept of marginal …

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The … reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or …

in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U … tenure. A survey of the perceptions of young economists supports the formal statistical analysis. Pursuit of T5 publications … has become the obsession of the next generation of economists. However, the T5 screen is far from reliable. A substantial …