Consensus Among Economists: Revisited

@article{Fuller2003ConsensusAE,  title={Consensus Among Economists: Revisited},  author={Dan A. Fuller and Doris Geide-Stevenson},  journal={The Journal of Economic Education},  year={2003},  volume={34},  pages={369 - 387},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143617926}}
Abstract The authors explore consensus among economists on specific propositions on the basis of a fall 2000 survey of American Economic Association members. Because some propositions are drawn from earlier studies, the results illustrate the dynamics of opinion within the profession. The authors generally find consensus within the profession, although the degree of consensus varies between propositions that are international, macroeconomic, and microeconomic in nature. Consensus is… 

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