Bruno the butt****er
[sticky] Bruno Frey et al.
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"...how it was possible for Bruno Frey to act so unethically for so long (he is 70). It appears that he has been caught in the past, but it never became public, or at least explicitly." EL writes. Thank you EL.
EL's input
http://economiclogic.blogspot.com/2011/09/bruno-frey-bubble.html -
From EL:
"The second question of course is how it was possible for Bruno Frey to act so unethically for so long (he is 70). It appears that he has been caught in the past, but it never became public, or at least explicitly. For example, he has been booted out of an editorial board, but there was no mention of why, his name just disappeared from the list."I guess EJMR played a HUGE role in bursting the bubble. It served as an outlet where a few economists could criticize his behavior and soon enough a few more industrious guys scoured his work and found the practice to be very wide spread. Then the constant fighting drew a lot of attention and ended up informing everyone about this issue. If this site was not anonymous then it wouldn't have happened so quickly (if at all). If this site did not exist then the issue might have been swept under the carpet again and he would have continued his activities without anybody being any wiser (as it seems to have happened in the past). Now editors are stupid if they don't take extra precautions with him because too many people know about this.
I tip of my hat off to Kirk for providing a venue that has provided a extraordinary social benefit for economists. Before a hater has anything to say, no this was not a pareto improvement much like increased police coverage is not a pareto improvement for a serial rapist.
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This does not make sense at all. If Zurich was ambiguous/tolerant, top US journals were too.
The highest level research in US has accepted Frey's behavior for years and years.
To my opinion EL's question is the question in this story. The rest is the sad story of a fraudulent researcher caught in act."how it was possible for Bruno Frey to act so unethically for so long"
Well, he never left Europe. This place is crawling with this type of "professors". I did my Ph.D. in Europe and I am still working in Europe. Frey is just the tip of the iceberg. -
04f5 just said users like you are idiots, he said nothing about Frey. Your answer confirms you are an idiot.
Ooooooh someone wants to be Frey's knight in shining armor.
^,^^,^^^ (et similia) do you have balls to repeat that with your name? therefore shut up. the reason ejmr is anonymous is not this. retards
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Who else?
I am just a mediocre guy trying to get by. I am pretty sure the top shots in U.S. are also aware and stay silent. Why should I try to fight the beast in whose belly I am? All I will say is that self-plagiarism is not the only ethically questionable practice in the trade. Why do you think experimental is so popular in Europe?
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The Andrew Gelman post is perhaps the stupidest thing I have seen in a while. The support for Frey apparently comes from the need to reach a more diverse audience. Given a fixed set of journals such an incentive would soon give rise to a "reaching a wider audience" vs "new research" competition. There are researchers who are better than Frey, yes maybe the 1% some people speak of. If all of them decided to publish the same paper in three different journals each, the economics discipline would become the most pathetic, boring and unfortunate of all disciplines. Yes I like Arrow's (first) theorem a lot. But I am glad he did not crowd out the works of Akerlof, Maskin, Aumann, Heckman,etc..