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Joshua Gans

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Professor at University of Toronto

Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Until 2011, he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual property protection. He is the author of several textbooks and policy books, as well as numerous articles in economics journals. He operates two blogs: one on economic policy, and another on economics and parenting. .. more

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 3h

Or just have them write the paper and cut out the intermediary.

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 4h

So I just want to shout out to the referee reports I received that raised issues and even though they were negative caused me to be more energised and motivated about improving my paper. This is what service to the profession is.

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 4h

This is feedback you rarely get following, say, seminars which for all the complaints in economics are often more superficial than a deep reading of a paper. Although you do often get from a good conference discussion.

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 4h

But … the reviewing process itself can be extraordinarily helpful. Ideally, some come to your work fresh, delve into it deeply, and determine where it is persuasive, wrong, or somewhere in between.

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 4h

These days we tend to see the review process as a gatekeeping function — keep out the bad and let in the good. And many referees do believe their role is to keep the gate. And with my 1994 JEP on rejections, I have surely helped reinforce that role.