If I think that economics students should be given ratings like tournament chess players, then naturally I would like this suggestion from David Tufte
for evaluating academic research, maintaining quality, and speeding up the process. Send 2 papers to an anonymous referee. Have them pick the best one. Only! Pair the winner with the winner of some other pair. Repeat as needed. Notify the losing authors only of what round they lost in, and permit resubmissions.
For Discussion. Suppose that we substitute “blogger” for referee. Could we disintermediate the journals?
READER COMMENTS
Jason Ligon
Oct 8 2004 at 8:02am
It would be much better than the bowl system we currently use …
Paul N
Oct 8 2004 at 12:05pm
Sorry guys; I like new ideas, but you’re way off base on this one. Majorities are often wrong in the long term. What’s popular now can turn out to be complete crap. Controversial ideas would get squelched unfairly. It’s tempting to idealize the average blogger, but in the end you’ll be even more frustrated with your judging pool of bloggers than you were with your “arbitrary” choices for reviewers.
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