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Subject: Re: fantastically entertaining paper
Robin Hanson wrote:
Here we have an industry (academic journals) where concentration
is low, entry is cheap, and most firms use the same production
technology (referees with veto power
Michael E. Etchison wrote:
an industry (academic journals) where . . . entry is cheap
As a non-academic, I have to wonder -- if getting in is so cheap, why is
getting a copy so expensive?
Standard armchair econ question, really. If prices are going up,
and quantity is going up, we'd suspect
Bryan D Caplan wrote:
Here we have an industry (academic journals) where concentration
is low, entry is cheap, and most firms use the same production
technology (referees with veto power), even though an alternate
technology (editors pick) has long been tried, and is easy to try.
Frey
Robin Hanson:
Michael E. Etchison wrote:
an industry (academic journals) where . . . entry is cheap
As a non-academic, I have to wonder -- if getting in is so cheap, why
is getting a copy so expensive?
Standard armchair econ question, really.
Yes, I know, and I know what we'd suspect. I
Cato Institute
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From: Michael Etchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 1:44 PM
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Subject: RE: fantastically entertaining paper
Robin Hanson:
Michael E. Etchison wrote:
an industry (academic journals) where . . . entry is cheap
Robin probably regrets using the word cheap in regard to entry as
this has clearly confused some people. As Robin later pointed out he
meant cheap to mean the journal industry approximates the economic
concept of free entry (more than many other industries we all think of
as
On 6/19/02, Bryan Caplan wrote:
I heartily recommend Bruno Frey's extremely fun working paper
Publishing as Prostitution: Choosing Between One's Own Ideas and
Academic Failure. ... http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp117.pdf
Peter Boettke added:
I completely agree with your assessment of Frey's
Robin Hanson wrote:
Here we have an industry (academic journals) where concentration
is low, entry is cheap, and most firms use the same production
technology (referees with veto power), even though an alternate
technology (editors pick) has long been tried, and is easy to try.
Frey claims
