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 <[email protected]> 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? > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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