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Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? A Symposium Prologue
Klein, Daniel B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 10 (2013) 2, pp. 157-161
Imagine that someone with all the endowments of a Milton Friedman were born in the 1960s or 1970s. Is it conceivable that such a person would develop into a Milton Friedman like we know the actual Milton Friedman to have been, including his academic eminence and his eloquent and influential...
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The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics
Klein, Daniel B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 2 (2005) 1, pp. 133-148
Adam Smith doubted an invisible hand in academia, saying that academia was prone to clubbish foolishness. From economics-department webpages, I collected data on Ph.D. origination of economics faculty. Using a ranking of 200 economics departments world-wide, I find that at the top departments...
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Sense and Sensibilities: Myrdal's Plea for Self-Disclosure and Some Disclosures on AEA Members
Klein, Daniel B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 3 (2006) 1, pp. 180-205
Gunnar Myrdal urged economists to disclose their ideological sensibilities, to mitigate asymmetric-information problems in scientific discourse and to reduce the hazard of bias. Myrdal’s plea informs us of the importance of frank discussion of ideological sensibilities, including...
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Liberalism and Allegory : A Tragedy
Klein, Daniel B. - 2018
Adam Smith was allegorical, knowingly and profoundly, but after him things went downhill, or even dropped off a cliff. From science anxieties many liberals spurned allegory, touting foundations, facts, science, etc. But we see in their discourse, notably on the economic system as cooperation,...
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A Plea to Economists Who Favour Liberty : Assist the Everyman
Klein, Daniel B. - 2009
Should economists remain as detached scholars, pursuing their research to the satisfaction of themselves and fellow … policy? In this paper, Professor Daniel B. Klein addresses these issues, concluding that if economists want to be influential … research standards, but it has been carried too far in the economics profession, to the detriment of research and teaching …
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The Forsaken-Liberty Syndrome : Looking at Published Judgments to Say Whether Economists Reach a Conclusion
Klein, Daniel B. - 2012
Do economists reach a conclusion on a given policy issue? One way to answer the question is to survey economists at large. Another is to look at the published judgments of economists who have gone on the record. Relative to an anonymous survey, going on the record makes for much greater...
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Colleagues, Where Is the Market Failure? Economists on the FDA
Klein, Daniel B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 5 (2008) 3, pp. 316-348
surrounding research on the policies in question. …
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The Ideological Migration of the Economics Laureates: Introduction and Overview
Klein, Daniel B. - In: Econ Journal Watch 10 (2013) 3, pp. 218-239
The project “The Ideological Migration of the Economics Laureates” fills the September 2013 issue of Econ Journal Watch. The project provides profiles of each of the 71 individuals who, from 1969 through 2012, won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel....
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Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006
Klein, Daniel B.; Barlett, Harika Anna - In: Econ Journal Watch 5 (2008) 1, pp. 109-133
admit conflict between relevant values and give up posturing to the effect that he has been a voice of unbiased research and …
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Economist Petitions: Ideology Revealed
Hedengren, David; Klein, Daniel B.; Milton, Carrie - In: Econ Journal Watch 7 (2010) 3, pp. 288-319
We report on 35 US-based economist petitions from 1994 to 2009, featuring 10,792 signatures and 6,030 signatories. We separate the 35 petitions into three categories: 15 liberty-augmenting (or liberal) petitions, 13 liberty-reducing (or interventionist) petitions, and 7 in a category called...
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