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Pia Malaney recently spoke about her experience dealing with this problem as a grad student at Harvard. Her research topic interested a nobel prize winner she later worked with, but the administration had zero interest in it because their political supporters wanted research to support a course of action they'd already decided on.

Few economists are willing to look at their own incentives or, in her words, "the economics of economics".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA1br9n5lQM&feature=youtu.be...