Peer Review, the Research Assessment Exercise and the Demise of Non-Mainstream Economics

Lee, Frederic S.; Harley, Sandra

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“…However, for the 1989 RS E and the 1992 RAE up to two publications from each full-time member of the faculty were RAE and subsequent exercises (Harley and Lee, 1997;Lee and Harley, 1998;and Lee, 2007). It is not difficult to discern why Diamond's list of 27 journals obtained such an elevated status among UK economists: those journals appeared repeatedly as top quality journals in journal ranking studies and in articles that used 'professional judgment' journals to identify the top, blue ribbon, or 'everyone would agree are core, mainstream, highly respected, quality' journals prior to 1989 and since 1989 up to the present day (Lee, 2006;Schneider and Ursprung, 2008;Ritzberger, 2008;Da Silva 2009;Halkos and Nickolaos, 2011;Kalaitzidakis, Mamuneas, and Stengos, 2011); and they appeared to be sanctioned by Economics and Social Research Council, the RES, and CHUDE since they represent ed 16 of the 22 high impact journals identified in their jointly sponsored study, International…”

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“…The negative impact of the 1992, 1996, and 2001 UK research assessment exercises on heterodox economics is well documented (Harley and Lee 1997;Lee and Harley 1998;Lee 2007); and as will be shown below, the 2008 RAE reinforced the efforts of the last two decades to free British economics of economists and their theories that exist beyond the pale, outside of the society of decent, respectable economists. The elimination of heterodox economics occurred at the same time that the concentration and homogenization of economic research and the dissemination of economic ideas of a elite group of economic departments took place.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Whitley based his claim on the work I carried out (with Sandra Harley) over the past two decades on economics and the 1992, 1996, 2001RAEs (Harley and Lee, 1997Lee and Harley, 1998;and Lee, 2007). I argued that the Royal Economics Society (RES) did capture the RAE panel appointment process, thereby ensuring that the economics and econometrics panel (hereafter economics panel) consisted of assessors that represented its research interests and disciplinary values.…”

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The UK Research Assessment Exercise and the narrowing of UK economics

Lee¹,

Pham²,

Gu³

2013

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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Federated learning (FL) has enabled distributed learning of a model across multiple clients in a privacy-preserving manner. One of the main challenges of FL is to accommodate clients with varying hardware capacities; clients have differing compute and memory requirements. To tackle this challenge, recent state-of-the-art approaches leverage the use of early exits. Nonetheless, these approaches fall short of mitigating the challenges of joint learning multiple exit classifiers, often relying on hand-picked heuristic solutions for knowledge distillation among classifiers and/or utilizing additional layers for weaker classifiers. In this work, instead of utilizing multiple classifiers, we propose a recurrent early exit approach named ReeFL that fuses features from different sub-models into a single shared classifier. Specifically, we use a transformer-based earlyexit module shared among sub-models to i) better exploit multi-layer feature representations for task-specific prediction and ii) modulate the feature representation of the backbone model for subsequent predictions. We additionally present a per-client self-distillation approach where the best sub-model is automatically selected as the teacher of the other sub-models at each client. Our experiments on standard image and speech classification benchmarks across various emerging federated fine-tuning baselines demonstrate ReeFL's effectiveness over previous works.

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2013

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“…Research assessment has resulted in certain aspects of research activity becoming less attractive for the individual and less likely to be recognised by HEIs. This includes longer term research projects; research with harder-tomeasure impact and publication/dissemination of research for non-academic audiences or outside the top-ranked academic outlets (Elton, 2000;Holligan, 2011;Lee and Harley, 1998;Lucas, 2006;Talib, 2001). In the UK, the impact of the RAE on HEIs has varied somewhat according to the type of institution (Lucas, 2006).…”

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Whose side are we on and for whom do we write? Notes on issues and challenges facing those researching and evaluating public policy

Warren

Garthwaite

2015

Evidence &Amp; Policy

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2015) 'Whose side are we on and for whom do we write? Notes on issues and challenges facing those researching and evaluating public policy.', Evidence policy : a journal of research, debate and practice., 11 (2). pp. 225-237. Further information on publisher's website: Author's post-print not to be cited. Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractHoward Becker (1967) posed the question "Whose side are we on?", a question which has become an enduring part of discussions within social scientific methodology. This paper explores the key issues in Becker's argument and considers its relevance to researchers today, locating this within a consideration of evaluation based research and policy. Many of the issues Becker discusses remain relevant, yet what has changed radically is the context within which academics operate. In an era where academics and their research are becoming increasingly commodified, this paper contends that the question of who the academic serves and writes for is increasingly important.

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“…2 To his credit, Frederic Lee quickly identified the dangers of such measurements for pluralism and eclecticism, criticizing the British research quality assessment exercise, which became a template for many other countries, and predicting that it would bring to an end the hiring of academics holding alternative views (Lee/Harley 1998). At the time, Lee was accused of not playing ball, of being overly critical, of lacking diplomacy and of endangering communication between orthodox and heterodox economists.…”

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Teaching monetary theory and monetary policy implementation after the crisis

Lavoie

2015

EJEEP

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The author reflects on the state of macroeconomic theory, and more specifically on how monetary economics is being taught in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Whereas heterodox macroeconomic theory is very much alive due to the influx of a large number of contributions and contributors, the latter still have a hard time finding positions in the academic world, as journal and departmental ranking exercises have restricted so-called standards of excellence to the neoclassical approach. The crisis has not yet induced mainstream economists to open up to different approaches that put more emphasis on realistic features than on imaginary ones based on neoclassical microfoundations. As an exemplar, the chapters on money and banking in two first-year textbooks are being examined, an orthodox one by Greg Mankiw and a heterodox one by Neva Goodwin et al. Unsurprisingly there is little to be learned about the crisis from Mankiw's book, while the book by Goodwin et al. devotes a large amount of space to the causes and consequences of the crisis. Still, Goodwin and her co-authors are not heterodox enough: they are less heterodox than a number of central bankers when it comes to a number of key features of monetary theory.

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Peer Review, the Research Assessment Exercise and the Demise of Non-Mainstream Economics

Cited by 56 publications

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The UK Research Assessment Exercise and the narrowing of UK economics

The UK Research Assessment Exercise and the narrowing of UK economics

Whose side are we on and for whom do we write? Notes on issues and challenges facing those researching and evaluating public policy

Teaching monetary theory and monetary policy implementation after the crisis

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