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Road to Sociology Watch
One of my more recent ideas is that academic economics is on the road to becoming like academic sociology. That is, it will become increasingly driven by a left-wing agenda. Consider the table of contents for the May 2017 issue … Continue reading
Update on the road to sociology
In September, Jeremy Horpedahl and I wrote, The topics of gender, race and ethnicity, and inequality are important economic and social issues. In this paper, we analyze how often those topics are addressed in two outlets of the American Economic … Continue reading
Selection effects
A few weeks ago, Handle wrote, The major problem with any mechanism that lets good people evade government control for good reasons, is that it lets bad people evade government control for bad reasons. I have been thinking recently about … Continue reading
My intellectual influences, Part 2: teachers
Looking at the American Economics Association
Two from EconJournalWatch. First, Mitchell Langbert writes, This paper shows that the AEA is nearly devoid of Republicans, though many Republicans are found among its membership, which remains open to all who pay the membership dues. I find that the … Continue reading