Running Economics Down: perceptions and Reality in the Presentation of Economists in the Media

William Oliver Coleman ()

Working Papers from Tasmania - Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper describes and appraises the campaign against economics that has been conducted through the Australian media since the beginning of the 1990s. This campaign has variously asserted that ‘Economics insinuates selfishness; is an apology for the rule of wealth; is dominated by economic rationalism, is dogmatic and ideological’. The paper presents empirical evidence that many claims made by this campaign are false.

Keywords: ECONOMISTS; MEDIA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:tasman:2001-12

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Tasmania - Department of Economics
Address: UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, HOBART TASMANIA 7001 AUSTRALIA.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Thomas Krichel ().