London, October 26 (EFE). – The Labor Party’s spokeswoman for the economy – and the expected British Minister of the Economy if her party wins the next elections -, Rachel Reeves, has plagiarized some parts of her new book without citing the sources, as revealed this Thursday by the Financial Times. ” (FT).
The Women Who Made the Modern Economy includes excerpts from Wikipedia, The Guardian, blogs, and even a foreword by Labor MP Hilary Benn, who is also not cited.
The Financial Times’ investigation, which was conducted manually rather than using plagiarism detection software, identified more than 20 examples in which words were copied verbatim without identifying the source.
The book’s publisher, Basic Books, admitted to the Financial Times that “where verbatim phrases taken from primary sources were used, they should have been rewritten and properly referenced.”
“We recognize that this did not happen in all cases,” Basic Books added, although at the same time it defended that “when collecting facts from multiple sources, we should not expect any author to refer to every one of them.” .
Reeves herself, through a spokesperson, acknowledged that “unintentional errors” had occurred and that they “will be corrected in future editions” of the work.
However, the spokesperson also “categorically rejected the accusation (of plagiarism) made by that newspaper.”
The book collects biographical stories from pioneering women in the study of modern economics, in which Reeves presents herself as a candidate to become the first woman to hold that ministry in the history of the United Kingdom. Evie
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