Simple partisanship ratios don't tell the whole story though, you would need to weight by reaearch funding and also academic reach measured by h-index or something similar, it's just a super weak argument you've made
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Fair enough! I believe that even the real-world impact of the economics profession is, on the net, much more liberal than conservative but admittedly there's no good data to back that up.
Don't necessarily disagree with that assessment but it depends on the timeframe you're looking at, e.g. in the 80s I don't think economic historians claim that economics was very liberal back then. Both perception and influence are fluid and influence one another over time
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Well in the 80s Reagan and the Republicans were in power so, even if they're a minority of the profession, conservative economists were always going to have outsized influence.
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Exactly, this is the whole point I was making. Influence doesn't come from demographic studies of university faculty, influence on the real world is what matters and drives perceptions of the discipline.
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