- Intellectual inbreeding
In the world of
academia , the process of intellectual inbreeding is an accusation ofinsularity ,elitism andcomplacency . The practice of a university hiring its own graduates as professors is a primary example of intellectual inbreeding and is therefore usually avoided by most schools. The problem with this practice is that it reduces the possibility of new ideas coming in from outside sources, just as geneticinbreeding reduces the possibility of new genes entering in to apopulation .Economists David Colander and Arjo Klamer, Ph.D. wrote a book entitled "The Making of an Economist" which researched the growing concern behind the methodology of academic teaching and the lowering numbers of
PhD 's inEconomics granted annually in theUnited States . Colander-Klamer state the trends described shrinking number of economic professors teaching at the University level would result in "intellectual inbreeding". According to theCommission on Graduate Education in Economics (COGEE), they recognize it as "a trend for emulation rather than diversification."External links
* [http://members.shaw.ca/competitivenessofnations/Anno%20Parker.htm The Making of an Economist - Intellectual Inbreeding]
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