How Does the Economics Profession Work? | Online Seminar with Dr. Daniel Hamermesh

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This informal talk provides a welter of statistics describing the nature of the publishing process in economics, and how difficult publishing and getting ahead are (even compared to other social sciences); notes that getting attention from other economists is not just a matter of where one publishes; and remarks on the fairness of the process. It discusses the tremendous skewness in returns, both attention and monetary, in economics. It evaluates how to measure contributions, especially in an era of expanding co-authorship; discusses the demographics of economics authors and how those have changed over the past 60+ years; and presents information on the life cycle of scholarly publishing.

Daniel S. Hamermesh is an emeritus professor of economics at Royal Holloway University of London, and the University of Texas at Austin. He also taught at Michigan State University, Princeton University and has held visiting professorships at universities in Europe, Asia and Australia. His A.B. is from the University of Chicago (1965), his Ph.D. from Yale (1969). His research, published in over 100 refereed papers in scholarly journals, has concentrated on time use, labor demand, discrimination, academic labor markets and unusual applications of labor economics (to beauty, sleep and suicide). His magnum opus, Labor Demand, was published by Princeton University Press in 1993. The same press published his Beauty Pays in 2011. In 2019 Oxford University Press published his Spending Time: The Most Valuable Resource. Hamermesh is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. In 2013 he received the biennial Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics of the Society of Labor Economists; the annual IZA Prize in Labor of the Institute for the Study of Labor; and the biennial John R. Commons Award of the international undergraduate economics honor society OΔE. His undergraduate teaching, particularly of large classes in introductory economics, has gained him several University-wide teaching awards.