Eric Rasmusen

Eric Rasmusen is a former Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Indiana University Bloomington.[1] He is the author of the book Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory.[2]

This article is about the Indiana University professor. For the baseball player and coach, see Eric Rasmussen. For the American physician, see Eric Rasmussen (physician). For the professor of English, see Eric Rasmussen (academic).

In November 2019, Rasmusen was criticized by his university for his posts on Twitter that were characterized as "racist, sexist, and homophobic."[3] On Nov 7 Rasmusen had retweeted an article published in a fringe right journal, the citation of which Wikipedia prohibits as a "deprecated source". The article was titled "Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably". Rasmusen's tweet quoted this line from a book by ultra-right theologist Ed Dutton: "geniuses are overwhelmingly male because they combine outlier IQ with moderately low Agreeableness and Moderately low Conscientiousness."[4] The university stated that they could not fire him "because the first amendment of the United States constitution forbids us to do so".[5] Rasmusen posted a rebuttal to his personal website, in which he defended his Twitter activity and argued that he was being silenced for "dissident" beliefs.[6][7] Rasmusen retired in 2021.

References
  1. "Faculty Profile". Kelley School of Business. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. Rasmusen, Eric (2006-11-28). Games and Information: An Introduction to Game Theory. Wiley. ISBN 978-1-4051-3666-2.
  3. "IU won't fire professor for tweets provost called 'racist, sexist and homophobic'". Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  4. "IU won't fire professor for tweets provost called 'racist, sexist and homophobic'".
  5. Noor, Poppy (November 22, 2019). "University decries professor's 'vile' racism and sexism – but says it can't fire him". The Guardian. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  6. Herron, Arika. "Indiana University professor Eric Rasmusen fires back and digs in on offensive tweets". Indianapolis Star. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  7. "Rasmusen.org". www.rasmusen.org. Retrieved 2019-11-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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