Re: [Pen-l] Ideological Discrimination in Economics?

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is probably also a factor.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:48:06PM +1000, Craig Freedman wrote:
> Unless we had data on job offers as well, you couldn't rule out a self-selection bias especially if we focus on a few decades or so ago. This though wouldn't speak to the issue of radical economists.
> 
> Craig Freedman
> 
> >>> michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04/21/09 12:33 PM >>>
> Sometime ago I remember reading a study that indicated the way that 
> publications from Chicago trained economists clustered in the Journal of 
> Political Economy and those from Harvard, in the Quarterly Journal of 
> Economics. (Maybe someone recalls the reference.)
> 
> I recently came upon an article about the respective hiring patterns of 
> departments of economics, comparative literature, of mathematics.  A 
> similar type of clustering occurs in economics, but far more modestly in 
> mathematics, where presumably ideology would not play much of a role.
> 
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1347002
> 
> Economists commonly describe the ideological clustering is a division 
> between freshwater and saltwater economists -- because the conservative 
> departments tend to be in the interior and the more liberal along the 
> East and West coasts.
> 
> The author does not attribute the clustering to ideological influences, 
> but one might suspect a reluctance of Chicago to dilute its ideological 
> purity with an excessive influx of people who do Harvard or MIT style 
> economics.  Admittedly, the difference between these schools is much 
> more modest than it has been in the past.
> 
> If one can accept the possibility of mutual discrimination on account of 
> relatively modest intellectual differences, might one be forgiven for 
> suspecting the long-denied discrimination against radical economists?
> 
> 
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