Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal
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Resumo: | This paper deals on the issue of whether or not studying economics has a relevant effect on molding the values and attitudes characteristic of the trust-building processes prevailing in a democratic society. Mainstream economics teaching, based on the self-interest model of rational, maximizing, individualistic representative agents, may well cause indoctrinating effects, creating or reinforcing both political conservatism and selfishness values and behaviors among economics students. This result is confirmed by most studies in relevant literature, but it may be otherwise explained by a so-called self-selection effect, suggesting that “economists are born, not made”. In this paper a contribution to this literature is made with more empirical evidence, namely the results of a survey entitled “Social Building of Trust in Portugal”, referring to a considerable diversity of samples (economics students, other students, ordinary citizens of two counties, urban and rural) and being applied in three different years: 2006, 2009 and 2012. |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in PortugalEconomics EducationIndoctrination or Self-Selection EffectsPolitical ConservatismSelfisness of EconomicsTrustSocial an Political ValuesBehaviorsPortugalThis paper deals on the issue of whether or not studying economics has a relevant effect on molding the values and attitudes characteristic of the trust-building processes prevailing in a democratic society. Mainstream economics teaching, based on the self-interest model of rational, maximizing, individualistic representative agents, may well cause indoctrinating effects, creating or reinforcing both political conservatism and selfishness values and behaviors among economics students. This result is confirmed by most studies in relevant literature, but it may be otherwise explained by a so-called self-selection effect, suggesting that “economists are born, not made”. In this paper a contribution to this literature is made with more empirical evidence, namely the results of a survey entitled “Social Building of Trust in Portugal”, referring to a considerable diversity of samples (economics students, other students, ordinary citizens of two counties, urban and rural) and being applied in three different years: 2006, 2009 and 2012.ISEG - Departamento de EconomiaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaGraça, João CarlosLoes, João CarlosCorreia, Rita Gomes2022-01-25T12:28:33Z20142014-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23260engGraça, João Carlos. João Carlos Lopes e Rita Gomes Correia. .2014. “Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. DE Working papers nº 20-2014/DE/UECE/SOCIUS2183-1815info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-06T14:52:46Zoai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/23260Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:07:31.937975Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal Graça, João Carlos Economics Education Indoctrination or Self-Selection Effects Political Conservatism Selfisness of Economics Trust Social an Political Values Behaviors Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal |
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Graça, João Carlos |
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Graça, João Carlos Loes, João Carlos Correia, Rita Gomes |
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Loes, João Carlos Correia, Rita Gomes |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Graça, João Carlos Loes, João Carlos Correia, Rita Gomes |
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Economics Education Indoctrination or Self-Selection Effects Political Conservatism Selfisness of Economics Trust Social an Political Values Behaviors Portugal |
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Economics Education Indoctrination or Self-Selection Effects Political Conservatism Selfisness of Economics Trust Social an Political Values Behaviors Portugal |
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This paper deals on the issue of whether or not studying economics has a relevant effect on molding the values and attitudes characteristic of the trust-building processes prevailing in a democratic society. Mainstream economics teaching, based on the self-interest model of rational, maximizing, individualistic representative agents, may well cause indoctrinating effects, creating or reinforcing both political conservatism and selfishness values and behaviors among economics students. This result is confirmed by most studies in relevant literature, but it may be otherwise explained by a so-called self-selection effect, suggesting that “economists are born, not made”. In this paper a contribution to this literature is made with more empirical evidence, namely the results of a survey entitled “Social Building of Trust in Portugal”, referring to a considerable diversity of samples (economics students, other students, ordinary citizens of two counties, urban and rural) and being applied in three different years: 2006, 2009 and 2012. |
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Graça, João Carlos. João Carlos Lopes e Rita Gomes Correia. .2014. “Economics education : literacy or mind framing? : Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal”. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão. DE Working papers nº 20-2014/DE/UECE/SOCIUS 2183-1815 |
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