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What Do Education Scholars Know?

Some time ago Martin Spiewak stated in the German quality-weekly Die Zeit that an awful lot of undisputed knowledge existed about the best...

Are There Too Many PhDs?

In all OECD countries, but in particular in Germany, there seems to be an enormous overproduction of PhDs – in...

Academic Conferences Should Be Outlawed

It’s conference season! Thousands and thousands of social scientists are flying around to visit conferences. The American Sociological Association gathers with more...

Economists Looking For God

A science is not called a discipline by coincidence: its students are actively and deliberately disciplined to think and behave...