Collaborative Research in Economics: The Wisdom of Working Together

✍ Scribed by Michael Szenberg, Lall B. Ramrattan (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection gathers some of the greatest minds in economics to discuss their experiences of collaborative research and publication. Nobel Prize winners and other eminent scholars from a representative sample of economics' major sub-disciplines share how and why they came to work primarily in partnerships or on their own, whether naturally or by necessity. The contributions include discussions of personal experiences, statistical analyses, different levels of investment, and how the digital age has changed researcher interactions. As budget cuts and resource consolidation make working together vital in ever more fields of academia, this book offers valuable advice to help young and seasoned scholars alike identify the right co-author(s).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-30
On Collaboration in General Economics....Pages 31-40
Reflections on Our Collaboration in Industry Studies....Pages 41-50
The Productivity Impact of Collaborative Research in the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty....Pages 51-63
Age, Cohort and Co-authorship: The Statistics of Collaboration....Pages 65-93
Collaborative Choices in Econometrics....Pages 95-108
On the Pleasures and Gains of Collaboration in Microeconomics....Pages 109-121
A Serial Collaborator....Pages 123-135
Collaboration With and Without Coauthorship: Rocket Science Versus Economic Science....Pages 137-151
Why We Collaborate in Mathematical Ways....Pages 153-161
Collaborative is Superadditive in Political Economics....Pages 163-182
“Heinz” Harcourt’s Collaborations: Over 57 Varieties....Pages 183-226
Coauthors and Collaborations in Labor Economics....Pages 227-249
Two Heads are Better than One, and Three is a Magic Number in Economics....Pages 251-256
Why Collaborate in International Finance?....Pages 257-273
My Collaborations in Game Theory....Pages 275-288
Co-authors in History....Pages 289-294
Collaboration: Making Eclecticism Possible in Economic Law and Politics....Pages 295-304
Collaboration and the Development of Experimental Economics: A Personal Perspective....Pages 305-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-324

✦ Subjects

History of Economic Thought/Methodology;Education Economics;Research Methodology;Research Methods in Education