Sponsors and Endorsements

Economics Bulletin is a welcome replacement for Economics Letters, which has failed its mission as an outlet for the wide and quick dispersal of new ideas. In 1978, when Economics Letters was new, a library subscription cost $50 while a subscription to Econometrica cost $52. In 1988 a subscription to Economics Letters cost $675 and a subscription to Econometrica cost $98. This year a subscription to Economics Letters cost $1592 and a subscription to Econometrica costs $214. Economics Letters is no longer broadly available to the profession, as smaller university libraries have dropped their subscriptions. Sending your short papers to Economics Bulletin instead of Economics Letters seems to me a way to do good and do well at the same time. Your papers will reach a broader audience with Economics Bulletin and you will assist in the decline of a journal whose publisher has taken to looting our university budgets.

Ted Bergstrom
Professor of Economics
University of California at Santa Barbara

SPARC commends Economics Bulletin for offering economists a high-quality alternative to Economics Letters. The new Web-based EB has what it takes to be a superior choice for scholars. There are no subscription fees, so EB is available to virtually any economist right at his or her desktop. That means readers have free and ready access to research, authors get wide dissemination of their work, and libraries don't end up paying the tab. EB emphasizes rapid and efficient review and offers a broad range of key information resources needed by economists, so it promises to be a key Web destination for economists. Here is an opportunity to show how scholarly communication should and can work. I urge economists to support EB by becoming contributors and by urging your colleagues to join you.

Rick Johnson
Enterprise Director
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)

It is clear that the future of academic publishing will be largely tied to electronic processing and dissemination. The Economics Bulletin is an idea who's time has come. It is perfectly designed: focusing on the types of manuscripts and announcements that need timely dissemination and can be handled in a timely manner. The Conley-Wooders team have proven themselves with the success of The Journal of Public Economic Theory, and have put together a high quality and diverse editorial board for the Economics Bulletin. It would be great to have a focal equilibrium regarding a place for the economics research community to announce conferences, preliminary results, and other news; and let us wish the Economics Bulletin every success. 

Matthew O. Jackson
Professor of Economics
California Institute of Technology

In recent decades, our profession has grown.  The subjects we study and the techniques we use to study them have morphed. The cost of storing or transmitting digital information has fallen by a factor of billion (give or take a few orders of magnitude.)  Seems kind of unlikely that the optimal response to these changes was to freeze the model of scholarly publishing.  It's high time that economists experimented with new models like The Economics Bulletin.

Paul Romer
Professor of Economics
Stanford University

I salute the initiators of this project for their willingness and courage to fight the commercial publishers who charge outrageous prices for academic journals and books. The time has come for non profit-maximizing organizations to dominate academic publishing. 

Ariel Rubinstein 
Professor of Economics 
Princeton and Tel Aviv Universities

The Economics Bulletin is a welcome addition to the collection of economic journals. Its online format should prove to be cost effective, convenient, and highly accessible. I wish it every success!

Hal Varian
Dean
School of Information Management Systems
University of California, Berkeley