As a young professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in the 1940s and 1950s, Paul Samuelson made a habit of visiting the
offices of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, then based at MIT, to
look through the other economics journals that arrived in the mail. “I’d
read every journal, every article,” he told me a decade ago.
Nowadays, no economist would do this. For one thing, there are too many economics journals for any one person to read. For another, cutting-edge research now invariably makes its way onto the Internet long before showing up in a journal.
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Nowadays, no economist would do this. For one thing, there are too many economics journals for any one person to read. For another, cutting-edge research now invariably makes its way onto the Internet long before showing up in a journal.
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