Breaking Down Barriers
June 15, 2008 – 7:36 pm by BHTim Kane interviews Michael Jensen, co-founder of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN.) Among the excellent Q&A, I found this bit inspiring:
In my own field, I was part of a very small group doing cutting-edge work in the early days of modern finance, and I noticed that elites in all fields were 2-3 years ahead of other scholars just because they knew about research that took so much time to get distributed widely. The Internet allowed everyone to see the frontier.
SSRN, in particular, was the vehicle that made working papers as a whole instantly accessible. The NYT has an article on SSRN as well. But read the interview first.
