Rejected: Leading Economists Ponder the Publication Process
13 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2009
Date Written: 1995
Abstract
This is in response to your letter of April 3rd, 1992, requesting stories about journal rejections - if any. Yours is a worthwhile venture. There seems to be room for improvement in our journals, and perhaps your book will be of help. But I must warn you - and your reader - that the subject is sufficiently important and painful to an author that what one writes cannot be taken too seriously. Like the other authors of your volume I have had papers rejected by journals in several areas, for most of my career, including currently. I had rejections in pure mathematics and in applied mathematics, in economic theory, game theory and in mathematical economics, in financial economics, international trade and development economics, in environmental economics and the economics of networks. Perhaps I have more papers rejected now than ever, but this may be because I am writing more.
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