Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics
提出经济学作为一门学科，奖励“硬”方法而忽视“软”方法，导致研究忽略重要但难以用“硬”方式处理的问题，即“遗漏之罪”，并呼吁重新审视出版与晋升制度，增加对多元方法的容忍度。
This paper advances the proposition that economics, as a discipline, gives rewards that favor the “hard” and disfavor the “soft.” Such bias leads economic research to ignore important topics and problems that are difficult to approach in a “hard” way—thereby resulting in “sins of omission.” This paper argues for reexamination of current institutions for publication and promotion in economics—as it also argues for greatly increased tolerance in norms for publication and promotion as one way of alleviating narrow methodological biases.