ECONOMICS of ECONOMICS
"The Econ tribe occupies a vast territory in the far North. Their land appears bleak and dismal to the outsider, and travelling through it makes for rough sledding; but the Econ, through a long period of adaptation, have learned to wrest a living of sorts from it. They are not without some genuine and sometimes even fierce attachment to their ancestral grounds, and their young are brought up to feel contempt for the softer living in the warmer lands of their neighbours, such as the Polscis and the Sociogs. Despite a common genetical heritage, relations with these tribes are strained - the distrust and contempt that the average Econ feels for these neighbours being heartily reciprocated by the latter - and social intercourse with them is inhibited by numerous taboos. The extreme clannishness, not to say xenophobia, of the Econ makes life among them difficult and perhaps even somewhat dangerous for the outsider. This probably accounts for the fact that the Econ have so far not been systematically studied. Information about their social structure and ways of life is fragmentary and not well validated. More research on this interesting tribe is badly needed."
From Life among the Econ by Axel Lejonhufvud (Western Economic Journal, 1973)
Economics of Economics is studying the behavior of economists and the characteristics of the economics profession. Maybe this is less wackonomics than the others as it's mainly of interest to economists. At the other side, some people clearly do not like it. Click
here for some evidence of this!
I have done some work in this area myself:
Other people working on the economics of economics:
And a paper by Charles Wyplosz
More specific, other people working on the rankings of economists and economics departments.
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Updated: November, 2001
