Comments on: Substance, Institutions, and the Real Value of Commercial Law Scholarship http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/10/substance_insti.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Samantha Crawford http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/10/substance_insti.html/comment-page-1#comment-67278 Samantha Crawford Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:59:50 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/10/substance-institutions-and-the-real-value-of-commercial-law-scholarship.html#comment-67278 I was just wondering if you could tell me if the photo (top right) is a photo of Mumbai? Thanks I was just wondering if you could tell me if the photo (top right) is a photo of Mumbai? Thanks

]]> By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/10/substance_insti.html/comment-page-1#comment-56886 Frank Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:16:16 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/10/substance-institutions-and-the-real-value-of-commercial-law-scholarship.html#comment-56886 That is an extraordinarily insightful and humbling reality check for scholars. I've tried to get at a somewhat similar point in <a href="http://madisonian.net/archives/2006/09/29/copyrights-distributive-impact/" rel="nofollow">this post</a>, but you've done this in a more subtle way. here's an interesting post from Marginal Revolution on potentially parallel motion in econ itself: What has mattered to economics since 1970 Tyler Cowen We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro and macro give way to growth and development in the 1990s. That is from Kim, Morse, and Zingales; here is the paper. That is an extraordinarily insightful and humbling reality check for scholars. I’ve tried to get at a somewhat similar point in this post, but you’ve done this in a more subtle way.

here’s an interesting post from Marginal Revolution on potentially parallel motion in econ itself:

What has mattered to economics since 1970

Tyler Cowen

We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro and macro give way to growth and development in the 1990s.

That is from Kim, Morse, and Zingales; here is the paper.

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