Eric Rasmusen

This article is about the American economist. For other people, see Eric Rasmussen (disambiguation).

Eric Rasmusen is an American economist and 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]

In November 2019, Rasmusen was criticized by his university after a popular Twitter account posted a screenshot of one of his tweets that was characterized as "racist, sexist, and homophobic."[3] Rasmusen had retweeted an article titled "Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably" with a quote: "geniuses are overwhelmingly male because they combine outlier IQ with moderately low Agreeableness and Moderately low Conscientiousness."[3]

The university stated that they could not fire Rasmusen "because the first amendment of the United States constitution forbids us to do so".[4] 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.[5][6] Rasmusen retired in 2021.

References

1. "Faculty Profile". Kelley School of Business. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. 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. Archived from the original on 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
3. "IU won't fire professor for tweets provost called 'racist, sexist and homophobic'". Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
4. Noor, Poppy (November 22, 2019). "University decries professor's 'vile' racism and sexism – but says it can't fire him". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 22, 2019. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
5. Herron, Arika. "Indiana University professor Eric Rasmusen fires back and digs in on offensive tweets". Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on 2019-11-22. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
6. "Rasmusen.org". www.rasmusen.org. Archived from the original on 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2019-11-21.

External links

• Rasmusen's IU faculty profile
• Rasmusen's personal webpage