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by timmytokyo 1064 days ago
The aim is muckraking. The authors are shining light on widespread moral corruption among elites in the economics profession.
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It looks more like retaliation against anonymous whistleblowers:

> EJMR has been used to expose multiple counts of plagiarism, corruption and serious professional misconduct that would not likely have been shared for fear of retaliation by their higher ups or colleagues. Indeed one of the co-authors of the paper had their own likely plagiarism exposed by anonymous EJMR users, calling into question the motivation for the study.