Prof. McCloskey quoted in Wall Street Journal: “The master sin, in American economics especially, is advocacy without regard for the truth”
January 9th, 2012Excerpted from “Economists Set Rules on Ethics” (by Ben Casselman for the Education Section of the Wall Street Journal, 9 January 2012): CHICAGO — A leading group of academic economists has adopted conflict-of-interest rules in response to criticism that the profession not only failed to predict the 2007-2008 financial crisis but may actually have helped (more…)
