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Progress and Microeconomic Data

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Is academic economics becoming increasingly divorced from reality? This paper studies the contents of full-length articles published in the Economic Journal between 1959 and 1990. It finds, contrary to what some believe, that there has been significant growth in empirical research on real firms, people, and other microeconomic agents. However, this upward trend apparently leveled out, at about one article in five, in the middle of the 1970s. Copyright 1991 by Royal Economic Society.

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  • Oswald, Andrew J, 1991. "Progress and Microeconomic Data," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 101(404), pages 75-80, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:101:y:1991:i:404:p:75-80
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    1. Button, Kenneth & Nijkamp, Peter, 1997. "Environmental Policy Assessment and the Usefulness of Meta-analysis," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 31(3), pages 231-240, September.
    2. Nijkamp, Peter & van den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M., 1997. "New advances in economic modelling and evaluation of environmental issues," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 180-196, May.
    3. Kenneth Button, 1998. "Where did the ?new urban economics? go?," ERSA conference papers ersa98p358, European Regional Science Association.
    4. Robert H. Nelson, 2004. "Scholasticism versus Pietism: The Battle for the Soul of Economics," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 1(3), pages 473-497, December.
    5. D. P. O'Brien, 1992. "Economists and Data," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 30(2), pages 253-285, June.

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