Confession of an Economist: Writing to Impress Rather than Inform

David R. Hakes

Econ Journal Watch, 2009, vol. 6, issue 3, 349-351

Abstract: In this paper I confess the following sin: I deliberately complicated a piece of research to advance its prospects of being published.

Keywords: preference falsification; confession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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