Read what I wrote. All of it. And don't be silly. This is no very profound question. Academic publishing is simply part of the job. Some of it is more than that, but that is another question.
The bulk of it is overwhelming. And most of it is not very good, but this is not necessarily the fault of the writers. They really do have to publish (in peer reviewed journals) to survive, just as factory workers have to punch the time clock. That is just a start, but a discussion of academic publishing that doesn't' start there is on some other subject. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of raghu Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:31 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] What's the Point of Academic Publishing? | Vitae On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: Raghu: To put it simply, Kendzior is only seeing a part of the picture-and in a dichotomy of black and white. --------- This is empty. "Academic publishing" is not, in essence, a pursuit of knowledge (though quite a bit of it is, by accident, such); it is a technique for the granting of tenure and promotions. You can submit "academic publishing: a technique for the granting of tenure and promotions" as a new entry for The Devil's Dictionary. It sounds cynical and it is clever how you switched the parts that you labeled as the "essential" and "accidental" aspects of "academic publishing" (whatever that is). -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
