Anthony Waterman wrote:   
> Why take the time?  
  
So that the entry will be better.  
The same reason one contributes to any encyclopedia.  
If Wikipedia attracts an expert entry like yours on Malthus,  
we all profit.  (As free riders, of course.)  
  
In the meantime, you could as least add links to  
a couple of your working papers.  
  
> I can't see the point of an 'encyclopedia' that is merely   
> an undergraduate parlour game.   
  
That's not a description of the Wikipedia I know:  
flawed, as are other encyclopedias, but useful.  
  
Cheers,  
Alan Isaac