Association Française d'Économie Politique (@afep.bsky.social)

In recent editorials, we have repeatedly touched upon issues of academic freedom as a fundamental value that is a necessary requirement for doing accurate academic research and teaching. Academic freedom is essential for the functionality of science as a systemic search for (often incomplete and preliminary) truth because it is a prerequisite for any open debate on how to best interpret the available evidence and on how to separate the epistemic judgements associated with this interpretation of the evidence from other forms of judgement that are based on, say, political, religious, aesthetic, or moral attitudes and convictions. http://www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn343.html