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Don’t click the transcript – it’s a mis-transcription that makes Harvey sound unhinged. The bit of it that’s visible without…
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This is a very strange comment. Searle’s Chinese Room, and his general position on intentionality, were controversial, and criticized (correctly,…
Hey Paul, thanks for giving this a shot! If want to send me your transcript or the broad outlines of…
…and it's in The New York Times. Kudos to the AEA for investigating this and publicizing it. But why haven't more economists been taken down by sexual harassment? Have I missed it?
Economics is a weird discipline. The first acknowledgement of gender disparity (but not harassment) was in the early 1970s! There were some initiatives. Things got a bit better and then stalled – for decades. See (self-promotion alert): https://sustainabilitycommunity.nature.com/users/171053-rodrigo-zeidan/posts/44921-female-representation-in-economics-from-data-to-action. I would assume that harassment in the discipline is neither better nor worse than in other places. There has been some high profile cases: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/business/economy/roland-fryer-harvard.html but nothing that would systematically tackle the issue.
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