Mark Carney is embroiled in significant allegations regarding academic

Mark Carney is embroiled in significant allegations regarding academic integrity related to his 1995 PhD thesis from Oxford, titled "The Dynamic Advantage of Competition."

An investigation by the National Post has uncovered that Carney incorporated at least ten excerpts from prominent economists without appropriate citations or quotation marks, constituting a blatant breach of Oxford's plagiarism guidelines.

Experts consulted by the publication, including a member of the academic discipline committee at UBC, assert that this constitutes plagiarism unequivocally. "He is simply repeating text without quotation marks. This is what we define as plagiarism," one expert stated.

Carney is accused of either directly copying or slightly rephrasing content from:
• Michael E. Porter (The Competitive Advantage of Nations)
• Jeremy Stein (Journal of Political Economy)
• H.S. Shin (RAND Journal of Economics)

For instance:
• Porter (1990): "First, government intervention can impede international competition..."
• Carney (1995): Reproduces the same sentence without citation.

In another instance, Carney altered a single term—changing "finite" to "continuous"—in a sentence derived from Shin's published research, again without any attribution.

Even rephrasing without proper citation constitutes academic misconduct. According to Oxford's regulations, plagiarism is defined as "presenting work or ideas from another source as your own without full acknowledgment."

While Carney's previous supervisor has come to his defense, Oxford has yet to issue a statement regarding the findings.

The instances of alleged plagiarism are widespread throughout the dissertation, rather than being confined to a single mistake. As one academic remarked, "It appears to be pervasive throughout the entire dissertation."

This situation is significant. Carney has established his reputation on principles of trust and competence. However, plagiarism is a form of fraud and theft, raising serious concerns about integrity.

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