# Professor Jonathan Haidt's research on ethics and economics, and Professor Paul Romer's research on "mathiness" are featured

1 Faculty News January 23, 2016 ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21688885-ideological-divisions-economics-undermine-its-value-public-all-sea?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/all_at_sea) -- "Science, wrote [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer), an economist, in a paper published last year, leads to broad consensus. Politics does not. ... Anthony Randazzo of the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think-tank, and [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) of New York University recently asked a group of academic economists both moral questions (is it fairer to divide resources equally, or according to effort?) and questions about economics. They found a high correlation between the economists’ views on ethics and on economics."

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