The American Economic Association defaulted on its own ethics and data-disclosure pledges

Evidence

A year later, the AEA predictably declined to produce a code of ethics for its membership. It did issue a new disclosure policy for conflict-of-interest-reports for papers submitted to the AEA-sponsored economics journals—which are only a small subset of the universe of ranked economics journals. Since the same body had earlier promulgated a code of provision of all econometric data sets for all submitted articles to AEA journals, which it then promptly proceeded to neglect and ignore, the prospects for any major changes of behavior are slim at best. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 615

Categorization

• QUESTION: Interesting to chase: how directly did AEA’s failure to enforce its data code feed replicability crisis debates in economics, which broke well after this book.