Information, Power and Academic Responsibility

Alan Randall

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1974, vol. 56, issue 2, 227-234

Abstract: The provision of information, no matter how objective, influences power relationships in an economy. Thus, scientific activity is non-neutral in its effects on the outcome of economic interaction. Therefore the researcher and his host institution cannot avoid moral choices as to what research is performed, what information is provided, and to what use that information is put.

Date: 1974
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