From a Rawlsean perspective, your genes are like a lottery. So if they are an important factor in your wealth, this can be an argument for redistribution. But we are not even allowed to research and think about these things? And if we try there is moral shaming.
Your periodic reminder that there's a heavy stigma in economics against using genetic differences to explain anything that happens in economics.https://twitter.com/AndreaRoventini/status/1156855962109693952 …
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Appreciating heritability is one reason I'm open to UBI.
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It’s not stigma, it’s just that we are typically very bad at it.
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Typically economist don't know even simple things about genetics. Of course I could list a substantial number of geneticists that don't either... Of course there is stigma.
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Biologists are more willing to apply economics to genetics than economists are to apply genetics to economics. https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/sexual-selection-13255240 …
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That thread was definitely an amusing read
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If we aren’t looking for the answer, we will never find the answer
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I'm an economist. I don't think 90%+ of economists would mind using IQ, genes, etc. in the slightest. To be sure, the other 10%, especially non-researchers, might mind a lot. They aren't journal editors or referees at decent journals though.
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Economics is fertile ground for grievance studies takeover.
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i mean, it’s a really dangerous road to go down, and it stands on tenuous foundations (at best)
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