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How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads

How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads Paperback / softback - 2018

by Steven Payson

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Paperback / softback. New. This book provides an eye-opening expose 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.
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This book provides an eye-opening expos 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.

About the author

Steven Payson has been a consultant at ICF Incorporated and the Inter-American Development Bank; a senior economist at the National Science Foundation and the Departments of Agriculture and Interior; and a branch chief at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He received his doctorate in economics from Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia University, American University, Georgetown, and Virginia Tech. Since 2006, Dr. Payson has been executive director of the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics, and in 2009-2010 he was president of Society of Government Economists. He is author of four other economics books.