The Economics of Economists - Institutional Setting, Individual Incentives, and Future Prospects (Hardcover)

The profession of academic economics has been widely criticized for being excessively dependent on technical models based on unrealistic assumptions about rationality and individual behavior, and yet it remains a sparsely studied area. This volume presents a series of background readings on the profession by leading scholars in the history of economic thought and economic methodology. Adopting a fresh critique, the contributors investigate the individual incentives prevalent in academic economics, describing economists as rational actors who react to their intellectual environment and the incentives for economic research. Timely topics are addressed, including the financial crisis and the consequences for the discipline, as well as more traditional themes such as pluralism in research, academic organizations, teaching methodology, gender issues and professional ethics. This collection will appeal to scholars working on topics related to economic methodology and the teaching of economics.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	August 2014
Editors:	Alessandro Lanteri • Jack Vromen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	378
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01570-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
LSN:	1-107-01570-7
Barcode:	9781107015708

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