In 2010 the NSF invited white papers that describe grand challenge questions that “transcend near-term funding cycles” and are “likely to drive next generation research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.”
There are dozens of submissions for economics. Some that caught my eye:
- Daron Acemoglu on the role of institutions in economic development
- Alberto Alesina on understanding how culture contributes to growth
- David Cutler on why people institutions don’t do things that are in their interest, even when they want to
- Esther Duflo on the aggregate consequences of micro-level distortions
- Dani Rodrik on economic diagnostics
- Hal Varian on clinical trials in economics
Here is a compendium.
Was there one for politics as well? I don’t see it.
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Pretty cool!
There was a single call, across the SBES fields. You’ve linked to a “compendium” of just the contributions from economists, but the initial “dozens of submissions” link includes contributions from across the social sciences.