Research on Economic Education: Is It Asking the Right Questions? Discussion Paper No. 510-78.

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Author	Weisbrod, Burton A.
Copyright Year	1978
Abstract	The division of responsibility between the two papers at this session is a fascinating one. One author has agreed to examine the questions that are being asked in the economics education literature, and the other to examine the answers!As is so often the case, however, the underlying assumption of separability does not hold. A research question is not a "good" or "bad" question independent of the quality of the answers it is likely to generate. An "exciting" question that is unlikely to yield an answer of substantial value is not a good question. Research is a production process in which something called "useful knowledge" is the output. The inputs to this process include both the specification of questions that are important-in the sense that the answers would have great expected value-and the marshaling of resources (i.e., the incurring of costs) to answer the questions.
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