Collaborative Research in Economics: The Wisdom of Working Together

by Michael Szenberg, Lall B. Ramrattan

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319849881
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/21/2018
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Chair of the Business and Economics Department at Touro College, USA. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, USA. He is recipient of many awards, including the 2013 John R. Commons Award, and he served as the editor, Emeritus, of The American Economist (1973-2011).

Lall B. Ramrattan is Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has served as an associate editor of The American Economist, and holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research, USA.

Szenberg and Ramrattan have collaborated on journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and more than 17 books.

Contributors

Walter Adams, Michigan State University, USA
William A. Barnett, University of Kansas, USA
William J.Baumol, New York University, USA
Mary Ellen Benedict, Bowling Green State University, USA
James W. Brock, Miami University, USA
Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University, USA
David Colander, Middlebury College, USA
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University, USA
Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester, USA
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Geoffrey Harcourt, Cambridge University, UK
Rachel McCulloch, Brandeis University, USA
Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University, USA
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University, USA
Paul Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University, USA
L. G. Telser, University of Chicago, USA
W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University, USA
Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University, USA

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. On Collaboration in General Economics.- 3. Reflections on Our Collaborations in Industry Studies.- 4. The Productivity Impact of Collaborative Research in Industrial Economics.- 5. Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship: The Statistics of Collaboration.- 6. Collaborative Choices in Econometrics.- 7. On the Pleasures and Gains of Collaboration in Microeconomics.- 8. A Serial Collaborator.- 9. Collaboration with and without Co-authorship: Rocket Science versus Economic Science.- 10. Why We Collaborate in Mathematical Ways.- 11. Collaborative Is Superadditive in Political Economics.- 12. “Heinz” Harcourt’s Collaborations: Over 57 varieties in Post-Keynesian Economics.- 13. Coauthors and Collaborations in Labor Economics.- 14. Two Heads are Better than One, and Three is a Magic Number in Economics.- 15. Why Collaborate inInternational Finance?.- 16. My Collaborations in Game Theory.- 17. Co-Authors in History.- 18. Collaboration: Making Eclecticism Possible in Economic Law and Politics.- 19. Collaboration and the Development of Experimental Economics: A personal perspective.