Manufacturing 'Economics' Minds: Ideology, Authority, and Economics Education
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Keywords
economics education; economics students; authority bias; ideological bias; ideology; plurality in economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2025-06-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2025-06-16 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-PKE-2025-06-16 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-SOG-2025-06-16 (Sociology of Economics)
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