Faculty at prestigious institutions dominate scientific discourse, producing a disproportionate
share of all research publications. Environmental prestige can drive such epistemic …

In this essay, we analyze the dominant position of economics within the network of the social
sciences in the United States. We begin by documenting the relative insularity of economics …

The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational
outcomes, and career trajectories among scientists and institutions. However, a quantitative …

Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the
challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public …

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of
economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from …

This article relies on an analysis of the institutionalization of economics worldwide during the
20th century to argue that the logic of professional development in this particular field has …

Numerous centrality measures have been developed to quantify the importances of nodes in
time-independent networks, and many of them can be expressed as the leading eigenvector …

East Asian social networks are social networks as practiced by East Asian people and
observed in East Asian societies. Creative scholarship on East Asian social networks has …

Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the
challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways. These public …

The aim of this article is to show that economic experts are not the product of one single
social field, with one identity and one role. They are rather the product of a trans-epistemic …