Politicians are inflating the evidence used to justify tax increases
- Written by Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Many government policies are flawed because the economics research upon which they are based suffers from high bias and low credibility.
Governments rely upon economics research to identify those policies that produce public benefit. However, a new survey we conducted with our fellow researcher, John Ioannidis, shows economic studies frequently...
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