This is an interesting article from this week's Sydney Morning Herald on the age-old debate about the conflcit between commercial incentive and scientific reporting: "Does anyone believe it's possible to buy an independent (econometric) report? That Mr Murphy would in no way have moulded his findings to what he knew his paying customers were looking for?"
There's also an interesting opening salvo in the article: "I doubt if the economics profession has ever worried much about ethics - its own or anyone else's - but perhaps it should. A profession with no disapprobation of dubious conduct is asking to have its reputation trashed".
This journalist has obviously failed to talk to economists doing primary research in university departments and research institutes!
I found the article on the Economists' View Blog - this seems like quite an energetic blog, with several posts a day.
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