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The Half-Life of Dead Economists

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  • Gary M. Anderson
  • David M. Levy
  • Robert D. Tollison

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This paper utilizes the Social Science Citation Index and G. J. Stigler and C. L. Friedland's 1985 Calendar of Great Economists to test several implications of an efficient market model of scientific research. Among the questions investigated are how fast an economist's work decays over time in relation to current economic research and whether one's scientific productivity is enhanced by being a member of a "school."

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  • Gary M. Anderson & David M. Levy & Robert D. Tollison, 1989. "The Half-Life of Dead Economists," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 22(1), pages 174-183, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:22:y:1989:i:1:p:174-83
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    1. Alain Alcouffe, 2010. "La théorie des surplus de Maurice Allais et l'histoire de la pensée économique," Post-Print halshs-01055082, HAL.
    2. M. Fase, 2007. "Notes and Communications," De Economist, Springer, vol. 155(2), pages 221-238, June.
    3. Courtney Butler & Brett Currier & Kira Lillard, 2021. "Safeguarding Research: A Review of Economics Journals’ Preservation Policies for Published Code and Data Files," Research Working Paper RWP 21-14, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
    4. Jelnov, Pavel & Weiss, Yoram, 2022. "Influence in economics and aging," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    5. Samuel Bjork & Avner Offer & Gabriel Söderberg, 2014. "Time series citation data: the Nobel Prize in economics," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 98(1), pages 185-196, January.

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