This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It assembles recent empirical studies and contributes by presenting their main findings in a comprehensible manner as well as contextualizing them in the current economic and...

Frequently, the professors of economy or the authors of texts think that it is enough with relating certain experiences, to mention certain historical data, to declare some truths to raise the interest of the possible listeners or readers. This attitude comes from a misunderstanding, very...

We examine the pre-graduate school characteristics of American PhD students graduating from the top 50 American economics programs. Attending a highly ranked undergraduate institution is strongly associated with graduating from a highly ranked PhD program, as is research assistant experience...

Ist die zunehmende Mathematisierung dafür verantwortlich, dass ordnungspolitische Inhalte immer mehr aus dem wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Curriculum verdrängt werden? Der vorliegende Beitrag verneint diese Frage. Er plädiert dafür, dass ordnungspolitisch orientierte Ökonomen und stärker...

The recent increase in the demand for expert economic analysis in antitrust litigation has improved the welfare of economists; however, the law and economics literature is silent on the effects of economic complexity or judges’ economic training on judicial decision-making. We use a unique...

This paper argues that history of economics has a fruitful, underappreciated role to play in the development of economics, especially when understood as a policy science. This goes against the grain of the last half century during which economics, which has undergone a formal revolution, has...

We study the political opinions of Swedish social scientists in seven disciplines. A survey was sent to 4,301 academics at 25 colleges and universities, which makes the coverage of the disciplines included more or less comprehensive. When it comes to party sympathies there are 1.3 academics on...

Pressure to change the academic reviewing system is growing. We discuss two groups of proposals for introducing market mechanisms. First, Prüfer and Zetland (2009), based on Havrilesky (1975), create an auction system: manuscripts are submitted and auctioned to editors in "academic dollars",...

Gegenstand dieses Aufsatzes sind die fundamentalen Probleme liberaler Argumente in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Anders als dies die Zyklen in der Dogmengeschichte nahelegen, erweist sich die gegenwärtige Krise des Wirtschaftsliberalismus dabei nicht als eine vorübergehende „Rezession“,...