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Political economists are neither selfish nor indoctrinated
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2001
Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this … particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398894
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Selfish and Indoctrinated Economists?
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2011
Many people believe that economists in general are more selfish than other people and that this greater selfishness is … economists can be explained by a selection effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034162
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Two Concerns About Rational Choice : Indoctrination and Imperialism
Frey, Bruno S.; Meier, Stephan - 2011
Rational Choice Theory is often criticized to indoctrinate students in a negative, which is supported by some laboratory experiments. But do students of Rational Choice Theory really behave more selfishly? This paper presents evidence from a natural decision on voluntary donation at the...
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Economics Students : Self-Selected in Preferences and Indoctrinated in Beliefs
Espín, Antonio; Correa, Manuel; Ruiz-Villaverde, Aberto - 2021
There is much debate as to why economics students display more self-interested behavior than other students: whether homo economicus self-select into economics or students are instead “indoctrinated” by economics learning, and whether these effects impact on preferences or beliefs about...
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Large effects of small cues : priming selfish economic decisions
Snir, Avichai; Levy, Dudi; Wang, Dian; Chen, Haipeng; … - 2024 - Revised: April 21, 2024
offers for the differences found in the behavior between economists and non-economists are: (i) the selection effect, and (ii …
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Has experimental economics slipped out of the hands of economic methodologists? : A review of The handbook of experimental economics, ed. by John H. Kagel, ... , Princeton, NJ, Pri...
Tammi, Timo - In: The journal of economic methodology 5 (1998) 1, pp. 171-178
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Experimental economics and business education : an interview with Nobel Laureate Vernon Lomax Smith
Terjesen, Siri; Willis, Amy - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 47 (2016) 1, pp. 261-275
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Tribute to Sidney Siegel : (1916-1961) : a founder of experimental economics
Smith, Vernon L. - In: Southern economic journal 83 (2017) 3, pp. 664-667
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Experience matters in the education of economists
Glaeser, Edward L. - In: What's the use of economics? : Teaching the dismal …, (pp. 77-81). 2012
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Do economists punish less?
Kaiser, Jonas Pilgaard; Pedersen, Kasper Selmar; Koch, … - In: Games 9 (2018) 4/75, pp. 1-17
A number of studies discuss whether and how economists differ from other disciplines in the amount that they contribute …
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