Ann
I like Christopher Hayes' reference to the Mafia's "code of omertà " in
the discipline (is such silence a "club"(sic) form of asymmetric
information or just group-think?), although I think in the context of
"Freakonomics", that any academic discipline especially in the context
of the tenure-promotion process, is more like the disorganized crime of
a street gang and the veil of ignorance about the value-producing
difference between working for a gang and working for a fast food
franchise. I wonder which members are astronomers and which are
astrologers as a friend of mine recently wrote me about her boss being
"Pluto'ed"?
