という小論をジョージ・アカロフが書いている(原題は「Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics」、H/T タイラー・コーエン)。 以下はその要旨。 This paper advances the proposition that economics, as a discipline, gives rewards that favor the “hard” and disfavor the “soft.” Such bias leads economic research to ignore important topics and problems that are difficult to approach in a “hard” way—thereby resulting in “sins of omission.” This pape