Ilan and Shakked Noy have a nice piece on one aspect of this, “The Short-Termism of ‘Hard’ Economics.” It’s forthcoming in Essays on longtermism, hopefully within a month or two. They argue that preferences for methodological hardness in economics make it difficult to publish longtermist research within economics.
To be fair, economics as a field is widely regarded as one of the strongest and most successful in academia right now. There are definitely challenges, of which Bob and the Noy’s identify some, but I don’t want to give the impression that academics are too down on economics as a field. They’ve been killing it since the mid-20th century.
I also don’t think economists are crazy to think that their top journals are sometimes more rigorous than leading interdisciplinary journals, which can be a bit more headline-chasing and often don’t give authors enough words to be fully rigorous.
Ilan and Shakked Noy have a nice piece on one aspect of this, “The Short-Termism of ‘Hard’ Economics.” It’s forthcoming in Essays on longtermism, hopefully within a month or two. They argue that preferences for methodological hardness in economics make it difficult to publish longtermist research within economics.
To be fair, economics as a field is widely regarded as one of the strongest and most successful in academia right now. There are definitely challenges, of which Bob and the Noy’s identify some, but I don’t want to give the impression that academics are too down on economics as a field. They’ve been killing it since the mid-20th century.
I also don’t think economists are crazy to think that their top journals are sometimes more rigorous than leading interdisciplinary journals, which can be a bit more headline-chasing and often don’t give authors enough words to be fully rigorous.