In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this …-year economists or other students. These results stand in contrast to results obtained by Frey, Pommerehne and Gygi (1993) on the same …

In this study, it was found that economists were sensitive to different commodities based on their attitudes in terms … of fairness toward the price mechanism, whereas non-economists did not exhibit significant sensitivity. This sensitivity … was so strong that no self-selection effect could be found in economists in the case of a survey of a basic commodity …

makes business students more selfish: candidates seem to undergo a self-selection process before they begin their studies. …

specializing in the same topic also become more homogeneous over time. We therefore report evidence of both a selection and a … learning effect of studying different disciplines. …

economists can be explained by a selection effect. …Many people believe that economists in general are more selfish than other people and that this greater selfishness is …

Academic economists have a strong influence on political discourse in Russia by delivering through courses of "Economic … author, following John Dewey, proposes to economists to feed by the results of their empirical research an enlarged political …

This study evaluates attitudes of Turkish university students towards markets and influence of taking a course in … economics on these attitudes, and compares the results with students in other countries. The study results show that the …