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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.
I am grateful for the many helpful remarks by Margit Osterloh, Christine Benesch, Simon Lüchinger and Susanne Neckermann, and to Isabel Ellenberger for improving the English.
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Frey, B.S. (2007). The Rankings and Evaluations Mania. In: Baake, P., Borck, R. (eds) Public Economics and Public Choice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72782-8_10
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