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...