The word "scapegoat" is defined as "a person made to bear the blame for others," and similarly, "scapegoatism" refers to "the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com,...

The estimation of the employment effects of offshore safety and environmental regulation is often highly speculative and based on questionable assumptions. Nevertheless, it is still highly publicized and used as a basis for policy statements in support or, or in opposition to, proposed...

When states wrongly insist on taxing on-reservation resources and economic activity, they dramatically increase the overall cost of any project. In some arenas, double taxation makes otherwise economically viable projects impossible to pursue. The impact is particularly acute for tribes that are...

The estimation of the employment effects of offshore safety and environmental regulation is often highly speculative and based on questionable assumptions. Nevertheless, it is still highly publicized and used as a basis for policy statements in support or, or in opposition to, proposed...

The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...

This paper takes a fresh look at citation counts and publications in top-rank journals, which the academic economics profession uses to evaluate and promote its members. It first examines how and why citations are mentioned in an article, and what this implies about their counts. The discussion...

This paper takes a fresh look at citation counts and publications in top-rank journals, which the academic economics profession uses to evaluate and promote its members. It first examines how and why citations are mentioned in an article, and what this implies about their counts. The discussion...

The number of economics professors now teaching at universities will decline substantially over the next couple of decades. This will happen for one main reason--the advent of distance learning, especially in the form of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which enable a single professor to...

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...