There has been considerable discussion, dating back to at least the 1970s, and involving Coase and Hirshleifer among others, of the notion of "economic imperialism," the expansionist tendency of economics to move into topic areas previously considered outside the reach of economics. We trace the...

This paper tries to shed light on the question "do economics majors learn to 'think like economists'?" by investigating an unusual data set consisting of student evaluations of other students' research papers. The way the data set was collected minimizes incentives for students to grade...