Publishing as Prostitution? Choosing Between One‘s Own Ideas and Academic Failure

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Publishing as Prostitution? Choosing Between One‘s Own Ideas and Academic Failure

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Bruno S. Frey

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Survival in academia depends on publications in refereed journals. Authors only get their papers accepted if they intellectually prostitute themselves by slavishly following the demands made by anonymous referees without property rights on the journals they advise. Intellectual prostitution is neither beneficial to suppliers nor consumers. But it is avoidable. The editor (with property rights on the journal) should make the basic decision of whether a paper is worth publishing or not. The referees only give suggestions on how to improve the paper. The author may disregard this advice. This reduces intellectual prostitution and produces more original publications.

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NEP-ALL-2002-06-24 (All new papers)
NEP-HPE-2002-06-24 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
NEP-MIC-2002-06-28 (Microeconomics)
NEP-PKE-2002-06-24 (Post Keynesian Economics)

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Bruno S. Frey & Stephan Meier, . "Museums between Private and Public - The Case of the Beyeler Museum in Basle," IEW - Working Papers iewwp116, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
Bruno Frey & Alois Stutzer, 2001. "What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
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- Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer, . "What can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?," IEW - Working Papers iewwp080, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
- Bruno S. Frey & Alois Stutzer, 2002. "What Can Economists Learn from Happiness Research?," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 40(2), pages 402-435, June.
Bruno S. Frey & Stephan Meier, . "Political Economists are Neither Selfish nor Indoctrinated," IEW - Working Papers iewwp069, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
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- Bruno Frey & Stephan Meier, 2001. "Political Economists are Neither Selfish Nor Indoctrinated," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
Albrecht Ritschl & Ulrich Woitek, 2000. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy," Working Papers 2000_07, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow. [Downloadable!]
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- Albrecht Ritschl & Ulrich Woitek, . "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy," IEW - Working Papers iewwp050, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
Bruno S. Frey & Stephan Meier, . "Pro-Social Behavior, Reciprocity or Both?," IEW - Working Papers iewwp107, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
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- Frey, Bruno S. & Meier, Stephan, 2002. "Pro-Social Behavior, Reciprocity or Both?," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
Lars Feld & Bruno Frey, 2000. "Trust Breeds Trust: How Taxpayers are Treated," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
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- Lars P. Feld & Bruno S. Frey, . "Trust Breeds Trust: How Taxpayers are Treated," IEW - Working Papers iewwp098, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
- Lars P. Feld & Bruno S. Frey, 2002. "Trust breeds trust: How taxpayers are treated," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 87-99, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Bruno Frey & Stephan Meier, 2005. "Selfish and Indoctrinated Economists?," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 165-171, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Bruno S. Frey & Stephan Meier, . "Selfish and Indoctrinated Economists?," IEW - Working Papers iewwp103, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
Reiner Eichenberger & Bruno S. Frey, . "Europe's Eminent Economists: A Quantitative Analysis," IEW - Working Papers iewwp057, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
Bruno S. Frey & Stephan Meier, . "Two Concerns about Rational Choice: Indoctrination and Imperialism," IEW - Working Papers iewwp104, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
Peter A.G. VanBergeijk & Jan Marc Berk, . "The Lucas Critique in Practice: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of European Monetary Integration on the Term Structure," IEW - Working Papers iewwp082, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
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Rabah Amir & Igor V. Evstigneev & Thorsten Hens & Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé, 2002. "Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies," Discussion Papers 02-16, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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- R Amir & I Evstigneev & T Hens & K R Schenk-Hoppé, 2002. "Market Selection and Survival of Investment Strategies," The School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 0215, Economics, The University of Manchester. [Downloadable!]
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Bruno Frey & Alois Stutzer, 2001. "Beyond Bentham -- Measuring Procedural Utility," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
Iris Bohnet & Bruno S. Frey & Steffen Huck, . "More Order with Less Law: On Contract Enforcement, Trust, and Crowding," IEW - Working Papers iewwp052, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
Bruno S. Frey & Reiner Eichenberger, . "A Proposal for a Flexible Europe," IEW - Working Papers iewwp056, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
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- Bruno S. Frey & Reiner Eichenberger, 2000. "A Proposal for a Flexible Europe," The World Economy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 23(10), pages 1323-1334, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Simon Gächter & Arno Riedl, . "Moral Property Rights in Bargaining," IEW - Working Papers iewwp113, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
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- Gaechter,S. & Riedl,A., 2002. "Moral property rights in bargaining," Working papers 330, University of Bielefeld, Insitute of Mathematical Economics. [Downloadable!]
- Simon Gaechter & Arno Riedl, 2002. "Moral Property Rights in Bargaining," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH. [Downloadable!]
Bruno Frey, 2001. "Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society," Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series 1018, Berkeley Olin Program in Law & Economics. [Downloadable!]
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- Bruno S. Frey, . "Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society," IEW - Working Papers iewwp094, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]

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