2026 David Colander: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	44	1844	1087	399	9546

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Economics and Finance

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Overview

David Colander is affiliated with Middlebury College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with additional work in social sciences. The subfields of their research include economics and econometrics, general economics and econometrics, education, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered in their publications are:

Economic Theory and Institutions
Economic Theory and Policy
Innovations in Educational Methods
Education and Critical Thinking Development
Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
Economic theories and models
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

Recent publications by David Colander include:

"What does critical thinking mean in teaching economics?: The big and the little of it" (2021) published in The Journal of Economic Education
"THE ECONOMIST AS SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, OR PLUMBER?" (2021) published in Journal of the History of Economic Thought
"Does Macroeconomics Have a DSGE Future?" (2021) published in International Journal of Political Economy
"The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes ed. by Robert W. Dimand and Harald Hagemann" (2020) published in History of Political Economy
"Kevin Deane and Elias van Waeyenberge (eds), Recharting the History of Economic Thought" (2021) published in OEconomia

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Elgin F. Hunt
Huei-Chun Su
John J. Siegfried

David Colander's works have appeared across various publication venues, including:

The Journal of Economic Education
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
International Journal of Political Economy
History of Political Economy
OEconomia

Best Publications

The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics

David Colander;Hans Föllmer;Armin Haas;Michael D. Goldberg

595
Citations
Striking the Mother Lode in Science: The Importance of Age, Place, and Time

David C. Colander;Paula E. Stephan;Sharon G. Levin

532
Citations
THE DEATH OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS

David Colander

515
Citations
The changing face of mainstream economics

David Colander;Richard Holt;Barkley Rosser

505
Citations
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION

David Colander;Michael Goldberg;Armin Haas;Katarina Juselius

496
Citations
The making of an economist

David Colander;Arjo Klamer

462
Citations
Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics

David Colander;Peter Howitt;Alan Kirman;Axel Leijonhufvud

429
Citations
History of Economic Thought

Harry Landreth;David C. Colander

293
Citations
The Stories We Tell: A Reconsideration of AS / AD Analysis

David Colander

193
Citations
The Making of an Economist, Redux

David C. Colander

191
Citations
The Complexity Era in Economics

Richard P.F. Holt;J. Barkley Rosser;David Colander

183
Citations
Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

David C. Colander;Roland Kupers

159
Citations
Post Walrasian macroeconomics : beyond the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model

David C. Colander

157
Citations
The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics

David C. Colander

145
Citations
The Spread of Economic Ideas

David Colander;Alfred William Coats

140
Citations
In Pursuit of the Ph. D.

David Colander;William G. Bowen;Neil Rudenstine

138
Citations
Neoclassical Political Economy: The Analysis of Rent-Seeking and DUP Activities

Derrick K. Gondwe;David C. Colander

136
Citations
The Changing Face of Economics: Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists

David C. Colander;Richard P. F. Holt;John Barkley Rosser

133
Citations
Retrospectives: Edgeworth's Hedonimeter and the Quest to Measure Utility

David Colander

111
Citations
The Changing Face of Economics

David Colander;Richard P. F. Holt;J. Barkley Rosser

51
Citations
Introduction to The Making of an Economist, Redux

David Colander

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Kirman School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Thomas Lux Kiel University

Peter Howitt Brown University

Benjamin M. Friedman Harvard University

Andrew G. Haldane British Chambers of Commerce

Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University

Gordon Tullock George Mason University

Robert M. Solow MIT

Paul Seabright Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Paula E. Stephan Georgia State University

External Links

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