Does studying economics make you selfish? Study by @DanieleGirardi_ et al (admittedly a bunch of economists 😎) finds no discernible effect (whatever the course content) on self-interest or beliefs about others’ self-interest: buff.ly/3aahu5D HT Andreas Staub

Another great set of articles on teaching economics. rdcu.be/dcBP1 Cynthia Bansak @sarahfsmall Julien Picault Sai Madhurika Mamunuru an

📕 Spoiler alert: Probably not! @DanieleGirardi_, Sai Madhurika Mamunuru, Simon D. Halliday and Sam Bowles answered this question by looking at a sample of undergraduate students at UMass Amherst Read their paper, it's open-access ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🗞️ Are economists selfish? This was Tim Harford's question in the Financial Times's Undercover economist ➡️ ft.com/content/905332… Unsure about the answer? Read the paper by @DanieleGirardi_, Sai Madhurika Mamunuru, Simon D. Halliday and Sam Bowles to find out. ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/so…

New paper coauthored with Sai Madhurika Mamunuru and @arjun_jayadev titled "Social networks and experiened inequality" published in JEBO authors.elsevier.com/c/1k8gX_3pQ3jX… Details in 🧵... 1/n

Daniele Girardi of KCL Department of Political Economy, Sai Madhurika Mamunuru of Whitman College, Simon D. Halliday of SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and Samuel Bowles of Santa Fe Institute investigate if studying economics makes you more selfish and politically conservative. #EconomicsEducation ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️ doi.org/10.1002/soej.1…

Actual inequality and the inequality that people perceive can be wildly different, depending on people's social networks. This has big implications for public sentiment! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Sai Madhurika Mamunuru et al. document this in Karnataka, India.