Personal value priorities of economists
通过五项研究，发现经济学学生比其它专业学生更重视自我提升价值观，更不重视普世主义价值观，这种差异在入学初就存在并持续整个学位阶段，且与工作相关认知和态度有关，可能影响经济学家的政策决策。
Economists often play crucial roles in designing and implementing policies in the private and public sectors; thus it is important to better understand the values that underlie their decisions. We explore the value hierarchies that characterize economists in five studies. Findings indicate that students of economics attribute more importance to self-enhancement values and less importance to universalism values than students in other fields. This profile is already apparent at the beginning of the first year of study and persists throughout the degree. The values distinctive to economists are related to work-related perceptions and attitudes and hence may influence the policy decisions and recommendations of economists.