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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/emery-simpson-tapp-fig1.png600515Economists study how markets, consumers and businesses behave, but they rarely turn the focus inward to study their own behaviour. We did. And our research reveals that economists at Canadian universities are collectively losing interest in the country’s economy and its economic policy issues. The figure shows a continual drop in the share of academic […]