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Pluralism in economics : a public good or a public bad?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2004
academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal …
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The complexity of economies and pluralism in economics
Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius - 2017 - Revised version January 2018
desirable, I derive the conclusion that pluralism with regard to economic research programs is a more viable position to hold …
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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2015
There is by now ample evidence from laboratory experiments that individuals exhibit "prosocial" or "other-regarding" preferences. However, a key question is whether the importance of other-regarding preferences documented in the laboratory can be readily generalized to draw conclusions about the...
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Modeling social preferences : a generalized model of inequity aversion
Khan, Hayat - 2010 - This Draft: Jan 3, 2010
Taking note of the wide variety and growing list of models in the literature to explain patterns of behavior observed in laboratory experiments, this paper identifies two tests, the Variety Test (ability of a model to explain outcomes under variety or alternative scenarios) and the Psychological...
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McCarthyism and the mathematization of economics
Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2016
Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists’ engagements with other disciplines – e.g. mathematics, statistics,...
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Lab measures of other-regarding preferences can predict some related on-the-job behavior : evidence from a large scale field experiment
Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon; … - 2016
We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...
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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note
Drydakis, Nick - 2018
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …
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Conceptual and political foundations for examining the interaction between nature and economy
Faber, Malte; Frick, Marc - 2019
The aim of this paper is to contribute to an innovative agenda in the field of Environmental Economics. The paper focusses on a conceptual and political perspective on the interactions between nature and economy. Section 1 states that Environmental Economics has to consider three fields: nature,...
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Replication studies in economics : how many and which papers are chosen for replication, and why?
Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2018
We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles are eventually replicated. We find that from 1974 to 2014 0.10% of publications in the Top 50 economics journals were replications. We take into account the results of replication...
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Biases in fiscal multiplier estimates
Asatryan, Zareh; Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; … - 2019
The "true" size of fiscal multipliers is widely debated by economists and policy makers as large (small) multipliers provide arguments to expand (cut) public spending. Within a meta-analytical framework, we ask whether the large observed variance in multiplier estimates can be explained by the...
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