ȁȄȇ Partʺ: Economics
inflict the curse of copyediting even onto writers more careful than them-
selves.
Ideally, the author himself should be known to bear responsibility
for what appears in print. If the writing is excessively bad, the publisher
should simply reject it. As things now stand, however, sloppy writers
provide an excuse of sorts for not straightforwardly solving the copyed-
itor problem.
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I hope we are giving each other, and perhaps our students and readers,
some moral support, some backbone, so that we can carry on our work in
the ways that we ourselves think best suited for learning how the world
actually operates. I hope we can carry on despite fads, fashions, perverse
success indicators, and preachments about “rigor.” I hope we will have
the courage to unmask and, when appropriate, to defy methodological
preachments of the worst kind, the tacit ones.
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