Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Ed Glaeser on Ethics Code for Economists

Quick summary: The American Economic Association (AEA) doesn't have a hold on economists, so it makes no sense for it to to issue an ethics code. But AEA controls a lot of prestigious journals; it makes a lot of sense for them to make disclosures of potential conflicts of interest mandatory for all the authors.

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