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Academic Exclusion: Some Experiences

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  • Arye L. Hillman
  • Heinrich Ursprung

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We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock were in due course recognized for the originality and merit of their contributions, although each incurred personal costs because of the exclusion by the academic elites of their time. Our study takes us into the role of ideologically based prejudice in judgement of the worthiness of economic ideas.

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  • Arye L. Hillman & Heinrich Ursprung, 2016. "Academic Exclusion: Some Experiences," CESifo Working Paper Series 5912, CESifo.
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    Keywords

    ideology; rents; rent seeking; X-efficiency; Gordon Tullock; Alexander Del Mar; J.A. Hobson; bias; eugenics; prejudice; anti-Semitism; professional recognition; strategic referencing;
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    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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