Regarding a code of conduct promulgated for the American Economic Association, women in economics at Berkeley write,
In order to craft an effective and appropriate Code of Conduct, the AEA must commit to a longer process that enlists and compensates a diverse group of economists to draft a robust document with a set of tangible commitments to improving conduct in our profession. We expect the group of economists crafting this document to include women, people of color, LGBTQ economists and those from a diverse set of socioeconomic, religious, national and intellectual backgrounds. These economists should be compensated financially for drafting a complete and thorough Code of Conduct that outlines concrete types of behavior that are deemed unacceptable and that institutionalizes a process through which violations can be reported and addressed.
…Professions such as sociology and law have modeled the type of robust code of conduct that a profession such as economics could adopt.
Within twenty years, economics will have all of the ideological diversity of sociology and law.
In other words, “We want to write the code and we want to be paid for it.”
Perhaps there’s an economic explanation for that.
As the lawyers say, why re-invent the wheel? Adapt one of the modeled codes as appropriate for economists & call it done. Coupla days work. Buy them a working lunch.
“Adapt one of the modeled codes as appropriate for economists & call it done.” Um, please no. Those codes have resulted (or just been one of the changes that resulted) in homogeneous ideological bubbles producing scholars and work product not only ignored but treated with disdain by those outside of academia.
“We want to be able to write a list of thought crimes irrelevant to economics that allow us to excommunicate heretics that do not walk in lock-step (goose-step) with the marxi-facist left.” That is the best translation of this word vomit.
Then, where will the “intellectual alpha” opportunities shift to? Business schools and think tanks? It seems like a lot of the scholarship in academic finance had already moved to the business schools several decades ago.
The statement, if crafted in the way proposed in the post, will prove that economics is no longer a science, if it ever was.