At the beginning of the 20th Century there was a strong residue of
religious-based morality one could almost take for granted. It was part of
The Progressive Movement. Even Andrew Mellon, in the 1920s, wrote that
labor income should be less taxed than property income, as in general it
was. With the mid-Century ascendancy of Chicagoism that was lost: virtue
was income, however acquired, and wealth was accumulated virtue.
I am sure there were those who objected, and others (a majority now it
seems) who defended the new morality. My question to this group is: who, in
what work, most effectively disputed the new morality; and who, other than
obvious choices like Friedman and Stigler, most effectively defended it?
Thank you,
Mason Gaffney
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Behalf Of Ramzi Mabsout
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [SHOE] Research ethics in economics
Hello, some helpful references :
Demartino, G. (2011) The Economist's Oath: On the Need for and Content
of Professional Economic Ethics, USA, Oxford University Press.
Economic Thought , issue 2,
http://p.feedblitz.com/t2.asp?/763931/4534930/4586070/www.worldeconomicsasso
ciation.org/files/journals/economicthought/volume2/issue1/WEA-ET-Vol2-No1.pd
f
Thomas Mayer, 2009. "Honesty and Integrity in Academic Economics,"
Challenge, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 52(4), pages 16-24, July. And many
other works by MAYER here http://ideas.repec.org/e/pma97.html
Hope this helps
Ramzi
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Paul Dudenhefer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I don't know of any courses, but this article and some of its references
might be a good place to start:
>
> Plagiarism and Its Impact on the Economics Profession Arce, Daniel G.;
Enders, Walter; Hoover, Gary A.; Bulletin of Economic Research, July 2008,
v. 60, iss. 3, pp. 231-43
>
> If you have access to the EconLit database, you might want to search that
too for other articles dealing with your subject.
>
>
> On 9/10/2013 7:53 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> Dear list members,
>
> I am setting up a new course on research ethics in economics. My intention
is to teach undergraduate economics
> students on plagiarism, scientific misconduct, fraud, and other related
issues in scientific research. I have
> been searching the Internet since last week, hoping to find similar
syllabi on the subject. I have found many
> courses designed for students of biological sciences and media studies.
However, Google Search tells me that
> there is only one economics course on this subject, which is in Princeton
by Anne C. Case and Stephen E. Morris,
> entitled "Responsible Conduct of Research in Economics." I used other
keywords, such as "scientific misconduct
> in economics research" and "ethical issues in economics"; the results did
not change.
>
> I thought I must be doing something wrong. I therefore would like to ask:
Does anybody know any course,
> graduate or undergraduate, on research ethics in economics?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Altug Yalcintas, Ankara University
>
>
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