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| Author: | Mayer, T. |
| Title: | The role of ideology in disagreements among economists: a quantitative analysis |
| Journal: | Journal of Economic Methodology
2001 : JUN, VOL. 8:2, p. 253-273 |
| Index terms: | BIAS ECONOMICS VALUE THEORY SCIENCE ANALYTICAL REVIEW |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The author answers the question how justified is the charge that ideology strongly influences the allegedly objective opinions of economists and shows a small effect of value judgments on parameter estimates. An analysis of a new survey of AEA members and of surveys of labor economists and public economists shows that value judgments and judgments about the government's efficacy have some influence on the way economists think about what should be purely economic issues. But such influence is not strong enough to explain much of the disagreement among economists. The paper provides a substantial list of references on this subject. |
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