Free as in liberated. Here’s the opening paragraph:
I wrote this paper with the recognition that it is unlikely to be accepted for publication. There is something liberating about writing a paper without trying to please referees and without having to take into consideration the various protocols and conventions imposed on researchers in experimental economics (see Rubinstein (2001)). It gives one a feeling of real academic freedom!
The paper reports on long-running experiments relating response times to mistakes in decision-making.
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January 28, 2013 at 2:20 pm
Enrique
Rubinstein violated his own 15-page (double-spaced) rule!
January 29, 2013 at 12:39 am
Lones Smith
Love the last comment!
If exploring the time to decide is new, I think this is an important and God-forbid “useful” result that really rings true. Regardless of whether it is “cleanly” done or not, shouldn’t our profession be focused a little more on rough and ready useful novelty, and a little less on excellent execution of less novel papers that tips its hat to the gate-keepers. I hope I am not mis-characterizing, but I really think that this was the style of Stiglitz that brought him boatloads of fame and glory.
I am a theorist, but I think I’ll post this now on my electronic course site.