Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Confession of an Economist: Writing to Impress Rather than Inform

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*David R. Hakes* is a Professor of Economics at the University of Northern Iowa. He specializes in macroeconomics and monetary policy. His email is hakes@uni.edu.

Abstract

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

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Volume (Issue)
6(3)
Pages
349-351
Published
JEL classification
A14
Keywords
preference falsification, confession
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