The Market Place for Ideas: An Analysis of Knowledge Diffusion in Academic Journals

Shaun P. Hargreaves-Heap and Ashok Parikh
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No DP2002-71, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The thought that the academy might function like a 'market place for ideas' has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature. This paper contributes to this literature by examining one respect in which the academy may or may not resemble a market for ideas: it provides an empirical study of the diffusion of ideas within the academic community.

Keywords: Econometrics; Research (Education; Higher); Experimental design; Research (Technological innovations) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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