The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics

Foreword William Easterly

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction, or Why This Handbook? George F. DeMartino and Deirdre N. McCloskey

PART II: UNCERTAINTY, RISK AND PROFESSIONAL ECONOMIC ETHICS

2. The Skin in the Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Constantine Sandis

3. The Ethics of Economic Decision Rules Sven Ove Hansson

4. In Praise of Imperfect Commitment: An Ethic of Power, Professionalism, and Risk Sharon D. Welch

5. 'Econogenic Harm': On the Nature of and Responsibility for the Harm Economists Do as They Try to Do Good George F. DeMartino

PART III: THE ETHICAL NATURE OF ECONOMIC PRACTICE

6. About Doing the Right Thing as an Academic Economist Erwin Dekker and Arjo Klamer

7. The Social Responsibility of Economists Peter J. Boettke and Kyle W. O'Donnell

8. The Ethical Economist: Duty and Virtue in the Scientific Process Jonathan B. Wight

PART IV: THE ETHICAL ENTAILMENTS OF ECONOMIC THEORY

1. General Issues

9. Ethics in Relation to Economics, Ecology, and Eschatology Herman Daly

10. Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination Julie A. Nelson

11. Economists' Odd Stand on the Positive-Normative Distinction: A Behavioral Economics View John B. Davis

12. The Complex Ethical Consequences of "Simple" Theoretical Choices Robert H. Frank

13. Good, Evil, and Economic Practice Tomas Sedlá?ek

2. Economic Theory and the Great Recession

14. Alternative Ethical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis: Lessons for Economists Irene van Staveren

15. Economists' Ethics in the Build-Up to the Great Recession Robert H. Wade

PART V: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ECONOMIC RESEARCH

1. Experimental Economics

16. Ethics and Advances in Economic Science: The Role of Two Norms Jingnan Chen, Angelina Christie, and Daniel Houser

17. The Meaning of Deceive in Experimental Economic Science Bart J. Wilson

2. Econometrics

18. Honesty and Integrity in Econometrics Thomas Mayer

19. Lady Justice v. Cult of Statistical Significance: Oomph-less Science and the New Rule of Law Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey

3. Field Research

20. Balancing Risk and Benefit: Ethical Tradeoffs in Running Randomized Evaluations Rachel Glennerster and Shawn Powers

21. Conducting Ethical Economic Research: Complications from the Field Harold Alderman, Jishnu Das, and Vijayenera Rao

22. The Unprincipled Randomization Principle in Economics and Medicine Stephen T. Ziliak and Edward R. Teather-Posadas

4. Conflict of Interest

23. Professional Disequilibrium: Conflict of Interest in Economics Dennis F. Thompson

24. Considerations on Conflicts of Interest in Academic Economics Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth and Gerald Epstein

PART VI: ETHICAL ISSUES IN APPLIED ECONOMICS

1. Development

25. Ethics, Economic Advice, and Economic Policy Joseph E. Stiglitz

26. Neoclassical Economics as the New Social Engineering: The Debacle of the Russian Post-Socialist Transition David Ellerman

27. The Ethics of Economic Development and Human Displacement Des Gasper

28. How Can We Better Address the Gaps in our Knowledge about Development Effectiveness? Martin Ravallion

2. Economic Advising in Government and Beyond

29. Confessions of a Policy Analyst Robert Nelson

30. Ethics and the Government Economist Susan Offutt

31. The Ethics Problem: Toward a Second-Best Solution to the Problem of Economic Expertise David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart

32. First Tell No Untruth Alan Freeman

3. Forensic Economics

33. Ethical Issues in Forensic Economics Robert J. Thornton and John Ward VII. ETHICAL ISSUES IN ECONOMIC EDUCATION

34. Exposure and Dialogue Programs in the Training of Development Analysts and Practitioners Ravi Kanbur

35. Ethics and Learning in Undergraduate Economics Education Robert F. Garnett, Jr.

VIII. LOOKING AHEAD

36. Creating Humble Economists: A Code of Ethics for Economists David Colander

37. Codes of Ethics for Economists, Pluralism, and the Nature of Economic Knowledge Sheila C. Dow