April 24, 2004

Ivory tower thieves. "I managed to get my paper [on asymmetric price adjustment] published in Economic Inquiry in 1982, shortly after the idea appeared in a better journal, without citation of my work, by an assistant professor at Amherst (now a full professor there) who heard me outline the theory when he interviewed me on the job market in 1979-80 .. ". More ARNOLD KLING.

Shocking but perhaps not as uncommon as you might think. And it could have been worse -- in many disciplines the thief might have been a faculty member at his own university -- or even his major professor. It happens. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack