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Do you think your colleague James Heckman's many dismissive comments about cute-e-conomics were directed at you? One example:

There's a trend now to come up with cute papers in an effort to be cited as many times as possible. ... In some quarters of our profession, the level of discussion has sunk to the level of a New Yorker article: coffee table articles about "cute" topics, papers using "clever" instruments.