As Mason says, going back centuries; see for example Part One of Goethe's
Faust (Penguin translation):

p.43 (soliloquy)

FAUST:
Philosophy have I digested,
The whole of Law and Medicine,
From each its secrets I have wrested,
Theology, alas thrown in.
Poor fool, with all this sweated lore,
I stand no wiser than before.

Master and Doctor are my titles;
For ten years now, without repose,
I've held my erudite recitals
And led my pupils by the nose.
And round we go, on crooked ways or straight,
And well I know that ignorance is our fate.
And this I hate.


p.49 (to Wagner)

If feeling fails you vain will be your course.
And idle what you plan unless your art
Springs from the soul with elemental force
To hold its sway in every listening heart.
Well, well, keep at it: ply the shears and paste,
Concoct from feasts of other men your hashes,
And should the thing be wanting fire or taste,
Blow into flame your little heap of ashes:
You'll find some apes and children who'll admire,
If admiration is your chief desire;
But what is uttered from the heart alone
Will win the hearts of others to your own.


p.96

MEPHISTOPHELES: 
Five lectures are your daily plan --
And show yourself a punctual man.
For your professor, pray, prepare;
No paragraph, Sir, overlook!
And then you soon will be aware
He never deviates from the book.
But write it down, Sir, every bit,
As if the Holy Ghost dictated it.

STUDENT:
A lesson, Sir, I need not to be shown
A second time: I read its worth aright.
For anything we have in black and white
Is ours to take away and call our own.


And although (even more) off-topic, I can't resist adding the following:

p.98

MEPHISTOPHELES: 

All theory, my friend, is grey,
But green is life's glad golden tree.


[my version: 

All life, my friend, is grey,
But green is theory's glad golden tree.]



Somewhat back on topic, I also recommend Ursula Le Guin's "The
Dispossessed" for amusing scenes of academic venality.

Julian 



On 07/01/2014 22:03, "mason gaffney" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Please note that Gaffney, Mason, and Fred Harrison (eds.), The Corruption
>of Economics,  was first published in 1994, not 2007.
>
>Searing criticism of scholarly malfeasance it also found in Upton
>Sinclair, The Goose Step; Thorsten Veblen, The Higher Learning in
>America; Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol; Jonathan Swift on recipes
>for stewing surplus Irish babies; Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly;
>Baruch Spinoza, and no doubt earlier critics and satirists going back for
>centuries.
>
>Mason Gaffney
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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>Subject: [SHOE] CFP: International Workshop on Scientific Misconduct and
>Research Ethics in Economics
>
>Call for Papers
>International Workshop on Scientific Misconduct and Research Ethics in
>Economics
>
>Date: 21-22 August 2014
>Venue: Swiss Hotel Grand Ephesus, Izmir, Turkey
>Workshop website: www.EconEthics2014.org
>
>Workshop calendar:
>16 March 2014	(Deadline for abstract submissions)
>4 May 2014 (Notification of acceptance)
>27 July 2014 (Deadline for full-paper submissions)
>
>Submissions: http://econethics2014.org/
>
>Workshop committee:
>Altug Yalcintas, Ankara University
>Robert Mcmaster, University of Glasgow
>Wilfred Dolfsma, University of Groningen and the Review of Social Economy
>
>Keynote speakers:
>James Wible, University of New Hempshire
>Stephen T. Ziliak, Roosevelt University
>
>Workshop fee:
>250 € (payable upon arrival). Workshop fee includes participation in the
>workshop, lunches, and coffee breaks.
>Our intention is to waive the  workshop fee for all PhD researchers This
>is currently under negotiation with our
>sponsors.
>
>Local organizing team:
>Altug Yalcintas, Ankara University
>Mehmet Basaran, Collective Minds
>Funda Demir, the Netherlands for Higher Education in Ankara.
>
>Please note that the workshop is limited by 20 participants Information
>with regard to lodging and
>transportation will soon be available on the workshop website.
>
>*
>
>Since the screening of Inside Job in movie theatres around the world in
>2010, research integrity in economics
>has been questioned by scholars and public intellectuals. Prestigious
>economists and policy makers are accused
>of conflicts of interest (Ferguson 2010) while prominent economists are
>charged with plagiarism and
>self-plagiarism. Recently, errors and omissions in a number of
>influential papers, uncovered in 2013 by UMass
>researchers, caused scholars to raise serious questions about the
>reliability of findings in economics. Some of
>these economists replied to accusations about themselves while many
>others have preferred not to respond at all.
>These days, economists hear the following question more often than
>before: “what is wrong with economics?”
>
>Despite serious concerns regarding the honesty of economists, scientific
>misconduct in economics, entailing
>plagiarism, fraud, and fabrication of data, has been among the issues
>drawing inadequate attention and remaining
>unexplored. The number of publications on the collective responsibility
>of economists is too small and there are
>only a few undergraduate and graduate courses in the US and Europe where
>economics students are taught about
>breaches of research integrity. Research ethics is not part of the
>standard curriculum in many research
>universities.
>
>Concerned by the unresponsiveness of the community of economists about
>the significance of the problem, we
>invite authors to submit paper proposals to a two-day workshop on
>Scientific Misconduct and Research Ethics in
>Economics to be held in Izmir, Turkey in August 2014. Submitted articles
>will first be reviewed by the workshop
>committee, involving Altug Yalcintas, James Wible, and Wilfred Dolfsma,
>for inclusion in the workshop. A
>selection of workshop papers will then be invited to the regular
>submission process of the Review of Social
>Economy for publication in a special issue on the same topic. Guest
>editors of the special issue will be Altug
>Yalcintas and James Wible.
>
>In this special issue, we aim at opening a platform for debates on the
>nature, scope, and pervasiveness of
>questionable research practices in economics.
>
>•	Nature of questionable research practices in economics: Why do
>economists involve themselves in breaches of
>research integrity? How should one explain the violation of the principle
>of “truth-seeking”?
>•	Scope of questionable research practices in economics: What are the
>forms of breaches of research integrity in
>economics? What has ethics got to do with it?
>•	Pervasiveness of questionable research practices in economics: What is
>the frequency of cases of breaches of
>research integrity in economics? Are these cases just a few “bad apples”
>or are they a real threat to the
>reliability of economic research?
>
>Research topics that we would welcome in this special issue include but
>are not limited to:
>
>•	Cases of scientific misconduct and best practices of scientific conduct
>in economics (such as the editorial
>policies of Econ Journal Watch publishing scholarly comments on
>“inappropriate assumptions, weak chains of
>argument, phony claims of relevance, and omissions of pertinent truths”
>as well as American Economic Review,
>Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Journal of Money, Credit, and
>Banking, Empirical Economics, and
>Labour Economics, among others, making research data and codes available
>on the websites of journals so that
>potential readers are able to replicate the results that papers reach.
>See, for instance, Dewald, Thursby, and
>Anderson 1986 and the website of “Journal Data Program Archives”.)
>•	Cases of scientific misconduct in social and natural sciences as
>analyzed from an economic perspective (such
>as Hoover 2006; Arce, Enders, and Hoover 2008; Ziliak and McCloskey 2008;
>Lacetera and Zirulia 2011).
>•	Surveys providing evidence on the extent of fraud, lack of financial
>disclosure, conflicts of interest etc.
>(such as Gaffney and Harrison 2007; Feld, Necker, and Frey. 2012; Enders
>and Hoover 2004; List et al. 2001).
>•	Replication failure, epistemic costs, intellectual path dependence
>(Wible 1998; Yalcintas 2013; Ramell 2013;
>Folbre 2013).
>•	Student misbehavior and teaching scientific misconduct in undergraduate
>and graduate programs.
>•	Normative issues: accountability and proposals for reform (such as
>codes of conduct, oaths, and honorary
>systems, see the 2013 Special Issue of the Review of Social Economy 71
>(2), “Oaths and Codes in Economics and
>Business”)
>
>References
>
>“Oaths and Codes in Economics and Business”. 2013. Special Issue of the
>Review of Social Economy 71 (2).
>“Plagiarism: Legal, Moral, and Educational Aspects” Conference of
>European Federation of Academies of Sciences
>and Humanities, 4 December, 2011, Amsterdam:
>http://www.allea.org/Pages/ALL/31/400.bGFuZz1FTkc.html
>Arce, Daniel G., Walter Enders, and Gary A. Hoover. 2008. “Plagiarism and
>Its Impact on the Economics
>Profession” Bulletin of Economic Research 60 (3): 231-243.
>Dewald, William, Jerry G. Thursby, and Richard G. Anderson. 1986.
>“Replication in Empirical Economics: The
>Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking Project” American Economic Review
>76 (4): 587-603.
>Enders, Walter and Gary A. Hoover. 2004. “Whose Line is It?: Plagiarism
>in Economics” Journal of Economic
>Literature 42 (2): 487-493.
>Feld, Lars P. Sarah Necker, and Bruno S. Frey. 2012. “Scientific
>Misbehavior in Economics – Evidence from
>Europe” Working Paper. Available:
>http://www.eea-esem.com/files/papers/eea-esem/2012/1745/PAPER%20Norms_EEA.
>pdf
>[Accessed October 2013].
>Ferguson, Charles. 2010. “Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics”
>The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3
>October.
>Folbre, Nancy. 2013. “Replicating Research: Austerity and Beyond” The New
>York Times, 22 April.
>Gaffney, Mason and Fred Harrison. 2007. The Corruption of Economics.
>(Shepheard-Walwyn).
>Herndon, Thomas, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin. 2013. “Does High Public
>Dept Consistently Stifle Economic
>Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff” PERI Working Paper Series 322.
>Available:
>http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_papers_301-
>350/WP322.pdf [Accessed October 2013].
>Hoover, Gary. A. 2006. “A Game-Theoretic Model of Plagiarism” Atlantic
>Economic Journal 34 (4): 449-454.
>“Journal Data and Program Archives” Website:
>http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/showCat.php?cat_id=9 [Accessed October 2013]
>Lacetera, Nicola, and Lorenzo Zirulia. 2011. "The Economics of Scientific
>Misconduct." Journal of Law,
>Economics, and Organization no. 27 (3):568-603.
>List, John A., C. Bailey, P. Euzent, and T. Martin. 2001. “Academic
>Economists Behaving Badly? A Survey on Three
>Areas of Unethical Behavior” Economic Inquiry 39 (1): 162-170.
>Rampell, Catherine. 2013. “A History of Oopsies in Economic Studies” The
>New York Times, 17 April.
>Wible, James. 1998. The Economics of Science: Methodology and
>Epistemology as if Economics Really Mattered.
>(Routledge).
>Yalcintas, Altug. 2013. “The Problem of Epistemic Cost: Why Do Economists
>Not Change Their Minds (about the
>‘Coase Theorem’)?” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 72 (5)
>November.
>Ziliak, Steve T. and Deirdre N. McCloksey. 2008. The Cult of Statistical
>Significance: How the Standard Error
>Costs Jobs, Justice, and Lives. (The University of Michigan Press).
>
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