"17th most important economist in the world" are E. Roy's words. 

Tom Coupe's European Economic Association analysis relates to "1994-1998, number of journal articles included in the ECONLIT database of the American Economic Association": 

http://web.archive.org/web/20070717070525/http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~tcoupe/ranklab11.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "E. Roy Weintraub" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, 6 June, 2014 11:48:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SHOE] The epistemological foundations of E. Roy Weintraub's "legitimate" contributions to HET

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Robert Leeson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hypothesis to be tested: E. Roy cannot handle evidence that is
> inconsistent with his projected authority.
>
>
>
​I am abashed to be so chastised by the 17th most important economist in
the world: "On a broad measure of publications, Professor Leeson was ranked
joint 17th (with Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson) in the list of the world’s
top 500 economists on the basis of the number of journal articles included
in the ECONLIT database of the American Economic Association." (Leeson
homepage,
http://www.nd.edu.au/fremantle/schools/business/staff/rleeson.shtml)

Another member of the SHOE list, off list, piled on to the Leeson complaint
demanding to know:
"WHY did Professor Weintraub refuse to include a chapter on 'McKenzie and
the Coase theorem' in his forthcoming book, as insisted upon by one of his
learned referees? Could it be that Weintraub has secreted away the
manuscripts and correspondence related to this in order to further his own
efforts to suppress Chicago partial equilibrium analysis in favor of the
general equilibrium approach that he so favors? And has Weintraub not
insisted repeatedly that the restaurants near MIT are superior in both food
and wine offerings to those near Chicago? Why does he seek to conceal these
things from members of the list?"
​

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Enough said. ​


-- 
E. Roy Weintraub
Professor of Economics
Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy
<http://hope.econ.duke.edu/>
Duke University
www.econ.duke.edu/~erw/erw.homepage.html