McCloskey quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek: “It’s not like economics is leading the way; economics is following”
Excerpted from Timothy R. Homan in “Ethics Code Requires Economics Authors Disclose Financial Ties” for Bloomberg Businessweek, January 09, 2012:
“It’s not like economics is leading the way; economics is following,” said Deirdre McCloskey, a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She said a code of ethics is “already commonplace in all the fields that surround economics — engineering, accounting, law, statistics, history. Name your field.”
