Still more on the famous file-sharing paper

I've posted about the famous Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf JPE paper on file-sharing--and Stan Liebowitz's questioning of it--before (here and here).

There's now a third round in the controversy. The German newspaper Handelsblatt has a story today titled "No Comment, Please" accompanied by the following blurb:

Steven Levitt, Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, uses a questionable tactic to block an undesired comment. The subject of the criticised article was a hot topic. On closer look, everything about the case was unusual.

Read the whole thing.

It's sad that it falls to a German newspaper to cover this, but then I've come to expect very little of the U.S. mass media.

Comments

[John B. Chilton]

We all have our horror stories in this business. The editorial process has not been perfected.

One of my many rejections by JPE said we were right (in our comment pointing out basic errors in a paper the JPE had published) but the editor believed it was better to let sleeping dogs lie.

We still managed to get our comment published in a decent journal.