Econ Journal Watch » Authors The bio below comes from a published article and may now be dated.
John Robinson is a third year PhD student at George Mason University, concentrating in Law and Economics and Smithian Political Economy. His email is john.robinson.23@gmail.com.
The genius of Econ Journal Watch is that it stimulates higher scientific standards in economic research. Most of the bold research comes from people who firmly believe in a theory and who search for evidence that supports it. Ideal scientific economists are supposed to search thoroughly for all evidence that might falsify their theory, but they rarely do. The discipline instead comes from other economists who have competing theories. EJW offers a new venue to check on how the facts square with theories, and it will help to make economics more of a science. Every profession should have its own Journal Watch , and I am delighted that economics has Econ Journal Watch .
— Donald Shoup , Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles