How economics professors can stop failing us
Subtitle: the discipline at a crossroads
By: Steven Payson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780739198339; 9780739198353
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Economics; College teachers; Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: This book provides an eye-opening exposé that reveals the behavior of economics professors based on the highly questionable incentive system they face. It is particularly critical of the theoretical literature they produce as if they were contestants in a superficial publication game-a game where scientific integrity is often ignored.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: No, this is not a joke; title: Why does theoretical economic literature exist?; title: What allows "literature-only" theoretical discourse to exist?; title: How the game is played; title: The quest for honest truth in economic science; title: The effects of electronic files, citation counts, and bibliometric databases; title: Scholarship, though beautiful, cannot save the academic economics profession; title: Academic economics at its dumbest and ugliest; title: Violations of professional ethics, whether by ignorance or intent; title: Product evolution and a personal story; title: Conclusion: what must be done in academic economics; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: About the author.