In This Issue: In this issue's Comments: Jane Shaw objects to an omission in a JEP article on African development. Alex Tabarrok criticizes a J Health Econ article on organ donation; Margaret Byrne and Peter Thompson respond to Tabarrok,Tabarrok replies. Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene Pierce examine a recent AER challenge to stock market efficiency. Michael De Alessi exchanges ideas with AER author Michael Kremer on the modeling of elephant poaching and the ivory trade;De Alessi replies. Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on pressing policy issues? Rick Geddes exams the case of postal reform, and Mark Thornton looks at drug prohibition. In The Intellectual Tyranny of the Status Quo Zeke Pasour interprets the field of agricultural economics, drawing on his own long career in ag econ. Dan Klein and Eric Chiang’s articles in Investigating the Apparatus examine the fuzzy practices behind, and uses of, the Social Science Citation Index. With publication of these articles, Econ Journal Watch is inviting Eugene Garfield, the creator of SSCI, and Rodney Yancey, the Manager of Corporate Communications of Thomson-ISI, to respond in a subsequent issue of the Journal. Per Skedinger and Dan Johansson document the absence of academic economists in the debate over globalization in Economics in Practice. The Correspondence channel is open. Send insightful letters on any of this issue's material and submissions or proposals for future articles to editor@econjournalwatch.org. EJW Foreword Download and Print Entire Issue (195 pages, 2.5MB)