How economics professors can stop failing us : the discipline at a crossroads

Acknowledgments -- No, this is not a joke -- Why does theoretical economic literature exist? -- What allows "literature-only" theoretical discourse to exist? -- How the game is played -- The quest for honest truth in economic science -- The effects of electronic files, citation counts, and bibliometric databases -- Scholarship, though beautiful, cannot save the academic economics profession -- Academic economics at its dumbest and ugliest -- Violations of professional ethics, whether by ignorance or intent -- Product evolution and a personal story -- Conclusion: what must be done in academic economics -- Bibliography -- About the author