| mike_intellivision said: Interesting study. I imagine that you would probably find the same in reverse in many business schools and some economics departments -- particularly those that espouse public choice theory. (Related to this, I wonder if there is self-selection bias on the part of people who pick particular disciplines of study, based upon the "belief system" of that discipline.) |
Actually... I think most economics departments also tend to skew liberal... despite most economists being conservative.
It's led to quite the split between Academic and Private research and outlook.
Most Academic Economics now mostly looks at abstract theoretical questions, while Private economists focus on actual practical real world economics.
It's why you can have people like Paul Krugman when a Nobel Prize... yet not actually have any sort of understanding on how markets actually work on a mecanical level. Instead relying on overly simple equations that suggust cure all solutions only when used in aggregate.
It's intersting, because often you'll find when someone shifts from one realm to the other, they also tend to shift accordingly when it comes to the right or left of economic beliefs.
