{"id":186748,"date":"2013-10-24T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/24\/economists-are-douchebags\/"},"modified":"2013-10-24T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:05:00","slug":"economists-are-douchebags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/24\/economists-are-douchebags\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists are Douchebags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A business school professor at Wharton has found that not only are economists more selfish and more likely to cheat, but that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/give-and-take\/201310\/does-studying-economics-breed-greed\">even just the study of economics and business has a criminogenic effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The quick bullet points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less charitable giving<\/li>\n<li>More deception for personal gain<\/li>\n<li>Greater acceptance of greed<\/li>\n<li>Less concern for fairness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He wonders if there is a problem with how we teach economics.<\/p>\n<p>Gee,&nbsp; you think? <\/p>\n<p>Go read the rest. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/10\/24\/economists_are_horrible_horrible_people_study_says_partner\/\"><i>Salon<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A business school professor at Wharton has found that not only are economists more selfish and more likely to cheat, but that even just the study of economics and business has a criminogenic effect. The quick bullet points are: Less charitable giving More deception for personal gain Greater acceptance of greed Less concern for fairness &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,968,1002,1003,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-education","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}