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                      1. I relate SO MUCH with this thread How many times I’ve heard that "agent-based modeling is not econ"? The first ABM workshop I attended felt more like a support group than an actual scientific event bc everybody was so tired and bruised of the constant aggressions A 🧵 @cesifoti/1364699994012459009
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                      At the same event, a senior researcher told me an anecdote of how he once had to stop a seminar he was giving bc the (powerful) chair basically didn’t want the other people in the room to be exposed to the methodology The chair disparaged the paper and didn’t let him respond
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                    Another time, a professor thought it was a useful idea to suggest during a seminar that the best way for me to improve my ABM paper I was struggling with (bc I was completely isolated and had to learn literally everything from scratch) was to turn it into a contract theory paper
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                  (Fun fact: the ABM paper is actually derived from a contract theory paper I co-authored with my supervisor 🤷🏻‍♂️ Here it is: ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/94459.html)
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                This perso was somebody I used to respect. With retrospect, I realize his attitude was just unhelpful and even damaging. But my respect for him started to recede when he once said some low key homophobic shit.
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              This resistance to certain new methodologies is absolutely not based in good faith and evidence based arguments It’s based on elitism and a deep willingness to keep power There’s no science *at all* involved in this kind of langage. It’s pure power grab.
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            Another fun fact: while I have decided to leave academia, I plan to stay scientifically active (or at least to try). I feel indeed more protected to pursue my "non-econ" ideas if I’m not subject of career bullying. Leaving academia felt the *safer route* to explore my ideas 🤷🏻‍♂️
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          Now that I’m a bit more experienced and with a better view of my scientific worth (my it-would-be-better-if-game-theory paper has been received quite well in ABM conferences), my attitude toward these "it’s not econ" folks is simple: fuck that shit
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        I also have been trained an as economist (with an undergrad minor in sociology), I have papers in contract theory and experimental econ, so wether these people like it or not, I *AM* an economist If they don’t like this fact, it’s not my problem
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      But I KNOW it’s an attitude I can afford because my professional advancement will NEVER depend on what these people think of my scientific work I also know that for other young ABM researchers who stayed in academia, they probably can’t afford the luxury to say the same
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    If you want to see how hierarchy and power dynamics in econ destroys good research, on top of destroying people, this is a clear illustration I managed to escape this toxicity in a not-too-bad shape, but NOBODY should experience some sort of PTSD for doing econ 🤯 This is NUTS
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      I’d like to believe econ can change, but we have a LONG road ahead. Especially in the US.
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        Another thing I forgot is the "somebody from an Ivy wrote a paper on X and this paper receives all the citations but it’s actually identical to a paper that was published 30 years before by somebody at a non-top institution but is considered as 'not econ'" Go double standards!
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