How Are the Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by Leading Economists

Joshua Gans and George B. Shepherd

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, vol. 8, issue 1, 165-179

Abstract: The authors asked the world's leading economists to describe instances in which journals rejected their articles. More than sixty essays, by a broadly diverse group that includes fifteen Nobel Prize winners, indicate that most have suffered publication rejection, often frequently. Indeed, journals have rejected many papers that later became classics. The authors discuss the prize-winners' experiences, other notable cases, and rejections by John Maynard Keynes when he edited the Economic Journal. Finally, they search in economists' almost universal experience of rejection for patterns and lessons about the publication process.

JEL-codes: A11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jep.8.1.165
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