Richard B. Freeman

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at the Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Top Scientific Research Is Globalizing, But Economics Is Becoming More Concentrated

Prizewinning research in most science-related academic fields has become less concentrated among institutions. However, as Richard B. Freeman, Danxia Xie, Hanzhe Zhang, and Hanzhang Zhou discuss in new research, prizewinners in economics continue to come from a narrow set of American institutions.  

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