Frauds in the Duke, Boston, and Stanford Economics Departments

The econ profession must hold Yiming Cao, Dan Ariely, and Chris Becker to account. One discovered and well-publicized research misconduct incident at a time.

This article walks through 3 unrelated cases of fraud happening right now at 3 unrelated economics departments. It is an open question whether any of the corrupt “scholars” involved will suffer any punishment whatsoever. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to shine a light on these fraudsters during the job market season in the hopes that someone…