Faustine sez: [David Friedman has published . . .] > Nothing good enough to get mentioned at NBER, the > veritable gold standard > (if > you'll allow) of academic research in economics. 5 minutes of time at econlit (the standard index of economics literature) produces tens of papers by David Friedman. A sample of the places of publication: Journal of Law and Economics (more than once) Journal of Political Economy (more than once) American Economic Review AER is usually considered the top economics journal. JPE is in everyone's top 5 and it would be reasonable to rank it second behind AER. JLE is the top journal in "law and economics" which is Friedman's field. It is difficult to reconcile D Friedman's publication record with the claim that he is not a good economist. A list of his publications also appears at: http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/Academic.html -- Bill Vogt Carnegie Mellon University NBER __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
