Economists Association to Review Disclosure, Ethics Guidelines
The world’s largest organization of economists said today it will create a committee to review its ethical standards for the profession, including guidelines for disclosure.
The American Economic Association’s Executive Committee voted unanimously at the annual meeting in Denver to examine its ethics rules, according to a statement from the group’s associate secretary-treasurer, Peter Rousseau, an economist at Vanderbilt University.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based association with about 18,000 members, approximately half of whom are academic economists, will “create a committee to consider the association’s existing disclosure and other ethical standards and potential extensions to those standards,” the statement said.
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