The rankings and evaluations mania

Abstract

Beat Blankart is a quite extraordinary scholar. He has always pursued the kind of research he himself found important and has been perturbed remarkably little by current fads in his chosen field. He is a critical economist in the best sense, sometimes even a little whimsical - in any case he is far from being a run-of-the-mill economist. I therefore hope that he will agree with at least some of the ideas developed in this paper. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.