1st Edition
The Economics of Scientific Misconduct Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry
1. Introduction 2. Scientific Misconduct in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries 3. Replication Failure, Plagiarism, and Questionable Research Practices in Economics and Psychology 4. The Unusual Economic Fundamentals of Science and Universities 5. The Economics of Replication Failure and the Preference Structures of Scientists 6. The Economics of Fraud in Science and the Preferences of Misbehaving Scientists 7. Peirce’s Economy of Scientific Research, Replication, and Accuracy 8. Questionable Research Practices in Late 19th Century America 9. Peirce’s Economy of Historical Research and His Defense of Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras 10. Veblen and Peirce on Contested Research Practices in Economics 11. Contested Research Practices in Econometrics, Methodology, and Macroeconomics 12. From Macroeconomic Controversy to a Code of Conduct for Economists 13. The Credibility of Science During the Pandemic 14. Scientific Misconduct as an Economically Explainable Anomaly
Biography
James R. Wible is a Professor of Economics at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. His research interests are economic methodology related to macro and monetary economics, the economics and philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the economics of science and research misconduct.
