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Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

From the Desk of the Managing Editor

  • Timothy Taylor
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 26, no. 2, Spring 2012
(pp. 27–40)
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Abstract

Editing isn't "teaching" and it isn't "research," so in the holy trinity of academic responsibilities it is apparently bunched with faculty committees, student advising, and talks to the local Kiwanis club as part of "service." Yet for many economists, editing seems to loom larger in their professional lives. After all, EconLit indexes more than 750 academic journals of economics, which require an ever-shifting group of editors, co-editors, and advisory boards to function. Roughly one-third of the books in the annotated listings at the back of each issue of the Journal of Economic Literature are edited volumes. Here is one take on the enterprise of editing from someone who has been sitting in the Managing Editor's chair for all 100 issues of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since before the first issue of the journal mailed in Summer 1987.

Citation

Taylor, Timothy. 2012. "From the Desk of the Managing Editor." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26 (2): 27–40. DOI: 10.1257/jep.26.2.27

JEL Classification

  • A14 Sociology of Economics
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