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            1. The language is quite sarcastic but I think this blog post makes a lot of good points about the hierarchy within economics In this case, it’s about a Nobel prize winner who paid little attention to a century old field he now specializes in lisaschweitzer.com/2019/09/26/paul-romer-is-a-smartest-boy-urbanist-and-i-wish-hed-sit-down/
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            Discarding entiere literature because it comes from a different field or from researchers at lower level institutions is not OK I have been told sad stories about network economics recently, with seminal papers being literally forgotten until remade by people at fancy places
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          Science is supposedly about accumulating knowledge. But when we ignore entiere spans of the literature and reinvent the wheel, what are we doing exactly? My guess is it’s related to intellectuel power and domination (dammit, I’m starting to sound like a sociologist 😱)
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        I’m not claiming it’s about bad individual behavior, or fraud. It’s more about the way our field works and is structured, and the associated incentives. And ultimately, forgetting part of the literature makes us a *weaker* science. That also is not OK.
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      Some may counter argue that good ideas are published in good journals regardless of who says them. But that’s not true. We all know networks matter. It explains why some dreadful papers are published in fancy journals. And why some good ones are published elsewhere-and forgotten.
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    When I said it was about power, I meant it was about who control what is published in the top journals, and the associated symbolic and career benefits.
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      We really need to open the doors and the windows. Diversity is about women, URM, LGBTQ and people with disabilities - among other groups. But it’s also about other fields and research done at non-top institutions.
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        cc @DrSchweitzer via @yfreemark
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