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What role do personal values play in the practice of economists? By means of a survey among economists working inside … values summarize the value structure of economists: achievement, serving the public interest, and conformity to rules … economists who value achievement are the ones who are more likely to embrace mainstream methodological principles: thinking …
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registered male economists compared to nearly two-thirds of female economists are attending a session), but seem to ask fewer …
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Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of … breeding ground for original economists. Furthermore,most fundamental work has been written alone and this finding contrasts …
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We report general and consensus results of a survey administered to a defined population of economic science academics in Mexico. Our results include insights on economic opinions, scientific aspects of economics, scientific activities, countries' economic performances and methodological...
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While leading figures in the early history of economics conceived of it as inseparable from philosophy and other humanities, there has been movement, especially in recent decades, towards its becoming an essentially technical field with narrowly specialized areas of inquiry. Certainly,...
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Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans — social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.We share with the 18th century Scots...
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the argument that economists have nothing to say about ends is false …. While it is true that economists must refrain from making normative judgments about ends, economists do have much to say … about them. I argue that in order for economists to properly take an end as "given," we must insist that the end satisfy …
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