One friend told me that economics as a field has a huge “conservative bias”, and you can’t trust their methods because of this reason.
Which is strange, since (according to The Making of an Economist, Redux by David Colander) only 16% of economists are conservative (while 47% are liberal, 24% are moderate, and 6% are radical). Perhaps he meant that the field of economics has less of a non-conservative bias than other fields (like sociology and political science), which I’m pretty sure is true.
Which is strange, since (according to The Making of an Economist, Redux by David Colander) only 16% of economists are conservative (while 47% are liberal, 24% are moderate, and 6% are radical). Perhaps he meant that the field of economics has less of a non-conservative bias than other fields (like sociology and political science), which I’m pretty sure is true.