Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2022
in decision-making. We discuss the primary barrier that prevents academic economists from contributing to longtermist … research: an overly rigid preference for methodological "hardness" (Akerlof, 2020). Hardness bias prevents economists from … longtermist research. We unpack hardness bias, discuss its roots, illustrate how it prevents economists from engaging in …