Have you ever wondered how bad ideas get published in academia? In our latest work, "The Ex Post Egalitarian Manual for Publishing the Unpublishable," we expose the tricks and tactics that allow deeply flawed concepts to see the light of day in top journals.
Using the framework of ex post egalitarianism—a welfare approach that can justify forbidding life-saving health measures or forcing the elderly into poverty—we illustrate how, with enough spin, even the most unthinkable ideas can be packaged into celebrated academic contributions. This isn’t just about pushing boundaries—it’s about how the publishing system itself can allow questionable ideas in heconomics to thrive.
You will learn techniques ranging from the manipulation of language and unnecessary mathematical complexity to vanishing assumptions, red herrings, evidence creation and circular logic. We also review ethical considerations and a few ways of handling critique.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4943790
