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There are many studies now that show how university students of economics find moral behaviour unusually difficult to understand, and that less morally inhibited students perform better in learning the subject, or at least the subject as it is currently taught in the USA and the UK. This has now been clear for more than three decades. It has become routine to point out that economists tend to lack morals and compassion at least once every ten years (Frank et al., 1993; Zsolnai, 2003; Ward-Per...