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Dow S (2015) The Economist's Oath: A Review Essay. International Review of Applied Economics, 29 (1), pp. 125-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692171.2014.983732
Abstract
George DeMartino's 2011 monograph, The Economist's Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics, provides an excellent basis for the development of a discourse on the ethics of economists. This review focuses on the way in which mainstream economists' arguments against consideration of ethics follow from their presentation of economics as a purely technical subject, and the implication that this pretense itself is unethical. The complexity of ethical issues within a pluralist approach to economics is explored, ranging from the institutional environment within which economists practice to epistemological questions.
Keywords
economics profession; ethics; epistemology
Journal
International Review of Applied Economics: Volume 29, Issue 1
| Status | Published |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 31/12/2015 |
| Publication date online | 28/11/2014 |
| Date accepted by journal | 31/10/2014 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22503 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN | 0269-2171 |
| eISSN | 1465-3486 |
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Emeritus Professor, Economics