The Economics of Scientific Misconduct: Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9780367443603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 328 str.

James R. Wible

Opis

The Economics of Scientific Misconduct explores episodes of misconduct in the natural and biomedical sciences and replication failure in economics and psychology over the past half century.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Scientific Misconduct in the Late 20^th and Early 21^st Centuries  3. Replication Failure, Plagiarism, and Questionable Research Practices in Economics and Psychology  4. The Unusual Economic Fundamentals of Science and Universities  5. The Economics of Replication Failure and the Preference Structures of Scientists  6. The Economics of Fraud in Science and the Preferences of Misbehaving Scientists  7. Peirce’s Economy of Scientific Research, Replication, and Accuracy  8. Questionable Research Practices in Late 19^th Century America  9. Peirce’s Economy of Historical Research and His Defense of Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras  10. Veblen and Peirce on Contested Research Practices in Economics  11. Contested Research Practices in Econometrics, Methodology, and Macroeconomics  12. From Macroeconomic Controversy to a Code of Conduct for Economists  13. The Credibility of Science During the Pandemic  14. Scientific Misconduct as an Economically Explainable Anomaly

O autorze

James R. Wible is a Professor of Economics at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. His research interests are economic methodology related to macro and monetary economics, the economics and philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the economics of science and research misconduct.