Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144947 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5912
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We describe and compare the experiences of academic exclusion of Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock. While aspects of the circumstances differed, a common element was academic exclusion because of challenges to mainstream views. Alexander Del Mar, J.A. Hobson, and Gordon Tullock were in due course recognized for the originality and merit of their contributions, although each incurred personal costs because of the exclusion by the academic elites of their time. Our study takes us into the role of ideologically based prejudice in judgement of the worthiness of economic ideas.
Subjects: 
ideology
rents
rent seeking
X-efficiency
Gordon Tullock
Alexander Del Mar
J.A. Hobson
bias
eugenics
prejudice
anti-Semitism
professional recognition
strategic referencing
JEL: 
A11
A14
B31
H11
P16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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