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Jim Craven wrote: 
 
>Perhaps the day will come when Economists apply some of their own 
>models to academia and Economics as a profession (e.g. Homo 
>Academicus). 
 
This day has come, as witnessed by the "economics of science" 
developed by not only economists, but also historians, philosophers, 
sociologists, science policy experts, and scientists. See, for example, 
Wade Hands "The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge" in Roger Backhouse (ed.) 
1994: "New Directions in Economic Methodology" or Paula Stephan "The 
Economics of Science" in JEL 1996 (34). Philip Mirowski and I organized a 
conference on "The Need for a New Economics of Science" (see 
http://www.nd.edu/~econsci) and are editing two volumes with papers on 
economics of science. 
 
Esther-Mirjam Sent 
 Department of Economics 
 University of Notre Dame 
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