Free Labor for Costly Journals?

Ted Bergstrom ()

Microeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper discusses the economics of academic journal publishing. It presents data on pricing of journals to libraries by non-profit and commercial publishers. It advocates the view that scholars should refrain from doing free refereeing for overpriced journals.

Keywords: subliminal; extant; Smith; economagic; gmm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D2 D3 D4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2001-06-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hpe, nep-lab, nep-pke and nep-tid
Note: Type of Document - pdf file of TeX document; prepared on Linux; to print on HP/PostScript/ ; pages: 25; figures: . to appear in Journal of Economic Perspectives
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