{"id":3547,"date":"2018-05-29T10:43:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T02:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T02:43:56","slug":"research-evaluation-in-economic-theory-and-policy-identifying-and-overcoming-institutional-dysfunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Research Evaluation in Economic Theory and Policy: Identifying and Overcoming Institutional Dysfunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of the Institute for New Economic Thinkng<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/perspectives\/blog\/inet-memo-to-g20-the-trouble-with-economic-research-evaluation\">https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/perspectives\/blog\/inet-memo-to-g20-the-trouble-with-economic-research-evaluation<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/research\/experts\/tferguson\">Thomas Ferguson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/research\/experts\/rjohnson\">Rob Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAY 28, 2018\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/topic\/macroeconomics-finance\/financial-crises\">FINANCIAL CRISES<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/topic\/political-economy-development\/institutions-policy-politics\">INSTITUTIONS, POLICY &amp; POLITICS<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.g20-insights.org\/policy_briefs\/research-evaluation-in-economic-theory-and-policy-identifying-and-overcoming-institutional-dysfunctions\/\">a memo\u00a0for the G20<\/a>, INET\u00a0calls for\u00a0changes to the evaluation of economic research\u00a0to\u00a0ensure that economic\u00a0theory\u2014and policy\u2014is more rigorous, innovative, and in service to society.\u00a0The findings in this memo, \u201cResearch Evaluation in Economic Theory and Policy: Identifying and Overcoming Institutional Dysfunctions,\u201d will also be presented by INET at the G20\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/registration.global-solutions.international\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Solutions Summit<\/a>\u00a0Berlin on Tuesday, May 29. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.g20-insights.org\/policy_briefs\/research-evaluation-in-economic-theory-and-policy-identifying-and-overcoming-institutional-dysfunctions\/\">full memo<\/a>\u00a0is available at the\u00a0G20 Insights website.<\/p>\n<p>Footnotes<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a name=\"_ftn1\" href=\"http:\/\/cms.ineteconomics.org\/admin\/entries\/blog\/13791-inet-memo-to-g20-the-trouble-with-economic-research-evaluation#_ftnref1\"><\/a>[1]\u00a0Nobel Prize winning economists who have recently appeared on panels critical of the way work in economics is now evaluated include George Akerlof, Angus Deaton, Lars Hansen, and James Heckman. See, e.g., \u201cTaking the Con Out of Economics: The Limits of Negative Darwinism,\u201d Panel Presented at the Institute for New Economic Thinking Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2017, available on the web at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/conference-session\/taking-the-con-out-of-economics-the-limits-of-negative-darwinism\">https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/conference-session\/taking-the-con-out-of-economics-the-limits-of-negative-darwinism<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cPublishing and Promotion in Economics: The Curse of the Top 5,\u201d Panel Presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2017; on the web at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/webcasts\/2017\/curse\">https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/webcasts\/2017\/curse<\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of the Institute for New Economic Thinkng https:\/\/www.ineteconomics.org\/perspectives\/blog\/inet-memo-to-g20-the-trouble-with-economic-research-evaluation By\u00a0Thomas Ferguson\u00a0and\u00a0Rob Johnson MAY 28, 2018\u00a0| FINANCIAL CRISES\u00a0| INSTITUTIONS, POLICY &amp; POLITICS In\u00a0a memo\u00a0for the G20, INET\u00a0calls for\u00a0changes to the evaluation of economic research\u00a0to\u00a0ensure that economic\u00a0theory\u2014and policy\u2014is more rigorous, innovative, and in service to society.\u00a0The findings in this memo, \u201cResearch Evaluation in Economic Theory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}