The Forsaken-Liberty Syndrome

Looking at Published Judgments to Say Whether Economists Reach a Conclusion

Bibliographic Data

ID2770488
AuthorsDaniel B Klein (0009-0002-7433-5391, George Mason University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume71
Issue5
Pages1250-1272
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1536-7150.2012.00859.x
OpenAlexW2108497649
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Do economists reach a conclusion on a given policy issue? One way to answer the question is to survey economists at large. Another is to look at the published judgments of economists who have gone on the record. Relative to an anonymous survey, going on the record makes for much greater accountability, and presumably more personal responsibility. I discuss 11 studies of economists' published judgments. Several of them show greater support for liberalization than found among economists at large. This is offered as evidence of what I call the forsaken-liberty syndrome. I discuss the nature of this test of such syndrome and point to some of the larger questions to which it relates

Accountability · Economics · Law and economics · Liberalization · Point (geometry) · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Test (biology) · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · Law · Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation · Psychology · Social Psychology

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