I start teaching this week (tomorrow). One of the things we are encouraged to discuss with students is the issue of academic misconduct. One of those problems that always existed, and not just among students, and it is hard to say whether things are better or worse than before, even though everyone thinks it has worsened. Certainly AI has made things even more complicated. At least in my classes, AI has limited impact, since it is an average of what is out there, and that is conventional economics.
Economics, as a field, is also not particularly good, with fewer retractions than other fields. Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff was never retracted, even though the mistake was acknowledged. More recently Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely were caught, essentially, fabricating data, and putting in doubt the whole sub-field of behavioral economics.
Over the last few years, and in particular since he was elected president, Milei's extensive plagiarism has been documented. In some of his books they even lie about his qualifications, saying he got a degree from the University of Buenos Aires (with high reputation in Argentina), and that he has a PhD from the University of California (not saying which one). Both untrue, of course. Now Noticias has uncovered further plagiarism, this time from Greg Mankiw's intro to microeconomics.
The examples above are copies, almost textual, of the Spanish version of text. The title of the book is at least original, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (no, just kidding, Capitalism, Socialism and the Neoclassical Trap; as all Austrians he confusedly thinks he is not neoclassical). At any rate, nothing surprising, besides the fact that Mankiw's publisher doesn't take action. Respect for property rights to attract investment, that is the basis, btw, of their theory. The jokes write themselves.
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