For the first time, economists are studying these phenomena scientifically.
Psychologists and experimental economists have studied the decision behavior of actual people in secretary problems.
In addition, many professional economists now study and write on the relationship between economics and legal doctrines.
Other economists study money and the banking system.
Such applications continued to motivate economists to study non-convex sets.
Many economists study the ways in which payoffs are in some sort of economic equilibrium.
But the economists studying women's pay emphasize that the significance of the gains of recent years should not be lost.
For much of this century, most Western economists studying the patterns of growth came down on the side of the rich.
The issue has been re-examined by modern economists studying consumption rebound effects from improved energy efficiency.
Before him, economists studied the demand for a whole product - how much consumers were willing to pay for bananas compared with apples.