The $700 Blue Light Special
by P.D. Lesko I WANT TO have lunch with Manfredi La Manna. Anyone who can price a journal subscription at $700 and come out looking like the guy in the white hat is someone I’d love to meet. That’s right, Dr. La Manna, founder of the Electronic Society for Social Scientists (ELSSS), was recently quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education as saying that his economics journal, the Review of Banking & Finance, would be priced at $700 per year. A similar journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics, published by a competing company, costs an institution $1,154. At $700 per […]
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