Reject!

David Trafimow and Stephen Rice ask "What if Social Scientists had Reviewed Great Scientific Works of the Past?" (HT: @JavierAparicio). Here's the summary of reasons for rejecting a circular earth, Newton's laws of motion, and Borlaug's Green revolution, among others.

I'm reminded of the number of rejects Gordon Tullock received.

I suppose Table 1 will be of value to referees in a hurry to come up with reasons for rejecting submissions.

Riding with the King

A Tweet from a few days ago reminded me of a nice piece of rent-seeking by some of my Public Choice students a few years ago.

They gave me this after semester was over, but they know that everything's a repeated game....

The song titles are pretty cleverly done, as you can see if you zoom in....