The Moral Ill Effects of Teaching Economics | HuffPost - 0 views
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Other studies have found economics students to exhibit a stronger tendency towards anti-social positions compared to their peers.
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Carter and Irons found that, relative to non-economics students, economics students were much more likely to offer their partners small sums, and, thus, deviate from a “fair” 50/50 spilt.
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The authors found that, after taking an economics class, students’ responses to the end-of-the-semester survey were more likely to reflect a decline in honest behavior than students who studied astronomy.
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