Individuals form teams to produce an output. The quality and quantity of a team's output depends on the ability and the … environment, individuals wishing to form a new team can get information about each other from the network of past collaborators … looks at the formation of coauthor relations among economists over a twenty year period. Our principal finding is that a new …

In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists … of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel for economists to exert public influence. We base our analysis … petitions and economists based on the social structure of petition networks. …

In this paper we address the issue of the role of ideology and political preferences of publically engaged economists … of economist petitions, which we identify as one channel for economists to exert public influence. We base our analysis …) economist petitions and economists based on the social structure of petition networks. …