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all active petition signers lean heavily toward either liberalism or interventionism. The economists most active in …, Michael Reich, David Terkla, Christopher Tilly, and Thomas E. Weisskopf. We present information on many notable economists …
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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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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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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 … eleven studies of economists' published judgments. Several of them show greater support for liberalization than found among …
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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 … which are relevent to policy. Five well known economists, John Fleming, Charles Goodhart, Israel Kirzner, Deirdre McCloskey …
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what explains the pattern? Why don’t some economists favor one and oppose the other? The present article is a Prologue to a …
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questions novel to the survey. We also look at gender, favorite economists, the frequent lack of consensus on issues, and the …
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A sample of 299 U.S. economics professors, presumably random, responded to our survey which asked favorites in the following areas: Economic thinkers (pre-twentieth century, twentieth century now deceased, living age 60 or older, living under age 60), economics journals, and economics blogs....
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justification for the policy. This article presents the questionnaire and ethically summons 305 relevant economists to complete the … economists may have a responsibility to respond. The responses will be collated and reported (without commentary) in a subsequent …
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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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