Consensos y disensos de los economistas en Uruguay

Veronica Amarante, Marisa Bucheli and Cecilia Lara ()
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Cecilia Lara: Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economía

No 22-09, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Instituto de Economía - IECON

Abstract: This article considers the level of consensus among Uruguayan economists regarding a set of economic propositions. Based on an online survey and using a Likert scale, we ask for the level of agreement with 39 economic propositions. Our results indicate that strong and substantial consensus is lower among Uruguayan economists than among their colleagues in other countries. Higher levels of agreement correspond to propositions related to discrimination and, to a lesser extent, environmental issues. The will of improving income equality and the importance of the State to achieve it generate consensus. However, there is no consensus about redistributive tools. Based on clustering on multiple correspondence analysis, we distinguish two differentiated groups according to their support for different economic propositions. The probability of belonging to either of these groups is strongly associated with ideological identification.

Keywords: economists; consensus; opinions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2022-05
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