1. Introduction; Lall B. Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg
2. On Collaboration in General Economics; Paul A. Samuelson
3. Reflections on Our Collaborations in Industry Studies; Walter Adams and James W. Brock
4. The Productivity Impact of Collaborative Research in Industrial Economics; W. Kip Viscusi
5. Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship: The Statistics of Collaboration; Daniel S. Hamermesh
6. Collaborative Choices in Econometrics; Charles F. Manski
7. On the Pleasures and Gains of Collaboration in Microeconomics; William J. Baumol
8. A Serial Collaborator in Macroeconomics; David Colander
9. Collaboration with and without Co-authorship: Rocket Science versus Economic Science; William A. Barnett
10. Why We Collaborate in Mathematical Ways; Graciela Chichilnisky
11. Collaborative Is Superadditive in Political Economics; Richard Zeckhauser
12. “Heinz” Harcourt’s Collaborations: Over 57 varieties in Post-Keynesian Economics; Geoff Harcourt
13. Coauthors and Collaborations in Labor Economics; Ronald G. Ehrenberg
14. Two Heads are Better than One, and Three is a Magic Number in Labor Economics; Mary Ellen Benedict
15. Why Collaborate in International Finance?; Rachel McCulloch
16. My Collaborations in Game Theory; L.G. Telser
17. Co-Authors in History; Stanley Engerman
18. Collaboration: Making Eclecticism Possible in Economic Law and Politics; Susan Rose-Ackerman
19. Collaboration and the Development of Experimental Economics: A personal perspective; Vernon L. Smith
Michael Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Chair of the Business and Economics Department at Touro College, USA. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Lubin School of Business at Pace University, USA. He is recipient of many awards, including the 2013 John R. Commons Award, and he served as the editor, Emeritus, of The American Economist (1973-2011).
Lall B. Ramrattan is Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has served as an associate editor of The American Economist, and holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research, USA.
Szenberg and Ramrattan have collaborated on journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and more than 17 books.
Contributors
Walter Adams, Michigan State University, USA
William A. Barnett, University of Kansas, USA
William J. Baumol, New York University, USA
Mary Ellen Benedict, Bowling Green State University, USA
James W. Brock, Miami University, USA
Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University, USA
David Colander, Middlebury College, USA
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell University, USA
Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester, USA
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Geoffrey Harcourt, Cambridge University, UK
Rachel McCulloch, Brandeis University, USA
Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University, USA
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University, USA
Paul Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA