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ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE

Name: ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE
Creator: Saint-Paul, Gilles
Keywords: Identification, 330, degenerative research programs, Dogmengeschichte, Economic science, autocoherent models, Interessenpolitik, Polarization, 0502 economics and business, Eigeninteresse

Economic Science and Political Influence

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Book , Research , Preprint , Report 01 Jan 2013 France English Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)Journal:Journal of the European Economic Association, volume 11, pages 1,004-1,031 (issn: 1542-4766,

Authors: Saint-Paul, Gilles;

doi: 10.1111/jeea.12035 , 10.2139/ssrn.2203270

handle: 10419/69352

ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE

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Abstract

When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze the role of measurement infrastructures such as national statistical institutes, the extent to which intellectual competition between different schools of thought may lead to polarization of views over some parameters and at the same time to consensus over other parameters, and finally how the attempt to preserve influence can lead to degenerative research programs.

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France

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French National Centre for Scientific Research
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Pantheon-Sorbonne University
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PSL Research University
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Keywords

Identification, 330, degenerative research programs, Dogmengeschichte, Economic science, autocoherent models, Interessenpolitik, Polarization, Eigeninteresse, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, self-confirming equilibria, ideology, macroeconomic modelling, self-confirming equilibria, polarization, autocoherent models, intellectual competition, degenerative research programs, identification, [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, A11, Ideology, B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE, E6, polarization, intellectual competition, Ideologie, ddc:330, Autocoherent Models, Ideology,Macroeconomic Modelling,Self-con.rming equilibria,Polarization ,Autocoherent Models ,Intellectual Competition ,Degenerative Research Programs ,Identification,A11,E6, macroeconomic modelling, Macroeconomic Modelling, ideology, and General Outlook, Intellectual Competition, Self-con.rming equilibria, Autocoherent models; Degenerative research programs; Identification; Ideology; Intellectual competition; Macroeconomic modelling; Polarization; Self-confirming equilibria, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Degenerative Research Programs, JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A11 - Role of Economics • Role of Economists • Market for Economists, Ideology; Macroeconomics modelling; Self-confirming equilibria; Polarization; Autocoherent Models; Intellectual Competition; Degenerative Research programs; Identification, identification, JEL: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics/E.E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Politicla influence, Wirtschaftspolitische Beratung, Theorie, jel: jel:E6, jel: jel:A11

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