Here’s what I would call a very welcome idea from the new editor of Economic Inquiry, Preston McAfee:
More insidious, in my view, is the gradual morphing of the referees from evaluators to anonymous co-authors.
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Celebrate: Checkers is solved!
In today’s Science online: wonderful title, wonderful article, wonderful research. Took quite a while, but the victory is sweet indeed…
“If two players face off at checkers and neither makes a wrong move, then the game will inevitably end in a draw.
→ Read more Cherchez la (les) femme(s)
This recent article in “Psychology Today” is not a bad research summary, despite that it has been written by social scientists other than economists :-). A user’s manual on the evolutionary perspective applied to human nature, targeting a very general audience (and therefore, perhaps unavoidably, plagued by sensationalism; fortunately, the compromise does not appear to be critical).
→ Read more The importance of cooperation in the production of knowledge… or of anything valuable, for that matter
Here’s a link to an older post I wrote on the importance of team building (particularized for Romania) and I paraphrased Graham Bell in the end of it, just as I had done here (in Romanian).
→ Read more Pseudo-science at its best: “International Journal for Creation Research”
Check it up for yourselves. One of the most entertaining parts is the remark from their “Technical Review Process, Overview and Procedures”.
“Remark:
The Editor-in-Chief should not be afraid to reject a Paper if it does not properly satisfy the above criteria nor is in the best interests of ICR as judged by its Biblical stand and goals as outlined in its Tenets.
→ Read more The Editor-in-Chief should not be afraid to reject a Paper if it does not properly satisfy the above criteria nor is in the best interests of ICR as judged by its Biblical stand and goals as outlined in its Tenets.