Econ Journal Watch » Authors The bio below comes from a published article and may now be dated.
George Selgin is Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. His books include Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 (2008); Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy (1997); and The Theory of Free Banking (1988).
Econ Journal Watch has been remarkably successful at attracting top-quality commentary on economic journal articles, and on the economics discipline more generally. The journals themselves are publishing less commentary — as an article in Econ Journal Watch noted — and are often reluctant to criticize the research that they publish, so Econ Journal Watch provides a valuable service. The material Econ Journal Watch publishes is relevant, interesting, and fun to read, and Econ Journal Watch has developed a following as a result.
I have been an academic economist for more than three decades and have published well over 100 articles in academic journals, and rarely do I get much feedback from what I’ve written. However, I have had one piece published in Econ Journal Watch , and on the day it was published four of my colleagues commented to me about it in casual conversation in the hallway, and I also received several e-mail comments on it. That was first-hand evidence to me that not only is the material in Econ Journal Watch good, economists read it!
Econ Journal Watch has already had a significant impact on the profession, and I expect its significance to grow over time.
— Randall G. Holcombe , DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, Florida State University
