Occupy Chicago Bites the "Invisible Hand" of Market Economics - Occupy the AEA

Chicago Police ordered Occupy to move the table - w/"Rahm-en noodle" cooker. Volunteers are seen keeping the table in motion during the hour and a half demonstration.


Concurrent with these demonstrations, the American Economics Association issued this press release at their Chicago meeting.

PRESS RELEASE
January 5, 2012
American Economic Association Adopts Extensions to Principles for Author Disclosure of Conflict of Interest

At its meeting today, the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association adopted extensions to its principles for authors' disclosures of potential conflicts of interest in the AEA's publications. The added principles are:

(1) Every submitted article should state the sources of financial support for the particular research it describes. If none, that fact should be stated.
(2) Each author of a submitted article should identify each interested party from whom he or she has received significant financial support, summing to at least $10,000 in the past three years, in the form of consultant fees, retainers, grants and the like. The disclosure requirement also includes in-kind support, such as providing access to data. If the support in question comes with a non-disclosure obligation, that fact should be stated, along with as much information as the obligation permits. If there are no such sources of funds, that fact should be stated explicitly. An "interested" party is any individual, group, or organization that has a financial, ideological, or political stake related to the article.
(3) Each author should disclose any paid or unpaid positions as officer, director, or board member of relevant non-profit advocacy organizations or profit-making entities. A "relevant" organization is one whose policy positions, goals, or financial interests relate to the article.
(4) The disclosures required above apply to any close relative or partner of any author.
(5) Each author must disclose if another party had the right to review the paper prior to its circulation.
(6) For published articles, information on relevant potential conflicts of interest will be made available to the public.
(7) The AEA urges its members and other economists to apply the above principles in other publications: scholarly journals, op-ed pieces, newspaper and magazine columns, radio and television commentaries, as well as in testimony before federal and state legislative committees and other agencies. About the American Economic Association

The American Economic Association (AEA) encourages economic research, issues publications on economic subjects, and encourages freedom of economic discussion. With more than 17,000 members, the Association publishes the American Economic Review (AER), Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP), and the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics. More information can be found at www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA, or by contacting Regina Montgomery at regina.montgomery@vanderbilt.edu .

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[BogartWestern]

One of these days, these OWS assholes will finally realize how pointless their whole premise was, and that they achieved nothing.

[dogstar7]

@BogartWestern

It really means a lot to you to insult this video repeatedly?

[BogartWestern]

I find it funny dogstar7 had nothing to add to my first comments, but took the opportunity, much like a corporate raider, to flame me for having something substantial to add to the conversation. OWS is dead. Go home, get a job, and quit bitching.

[dogstar7]

@BogartWestern

I find it funny that you can't seem to move on and put this video behind you. You seem obsessed with making your point, whatever it is. You must think very highly of yourself, that you should be so frustrated when someone else dismisses you. Run along now. This video is over a month old. I've moved on.

[DJAnthonyillWill]

The "invisible hand" always wins. Now runaway little sociology major.

[dogstar7]

@DJAnthonyillWill Invisible demons rip my flesh.

[DJAnthonyillWill]

@dogstar7 We have another zombie on our hands

[BogartWestern]

@dogstar7 Obviously not. Keep telling yourself that.

[dogstar7]

@BogartWestern

This isn't a debate. I'm not anyone's spokesman. I don't know who you think you are or who you think I am. I know you seem to be mistaken about the latter, I'm guessing you may be mistaken about the former.

[dogstar7]

@BogartWestern

Another numskull looking for someone to "debate" with, I see.

Look chum, this is YouTube. People create videos here. That's what I do. I went out on the street, I interviewed this guy, I posted it on the Internet. Hundreds of people viewed it.

You commented on my video. I replied. That's all.

[BogartWestern]

@dogstar7 Comprehend reading much? Much like OWS comprehends economics? I hoped to learn something and impart some of my own knowledge, but I see that's not welcome. I do care to discuss, I don't like being talked down to by anointed super-liberals who don't have a solution, just another complaint. I can pass judgment on whomever I want to as well. I can also pay the consequences for that. I won't pay any consequences for kneecapping a fledgling group of misfits.