Newmark's Door

Bryan Caplan terrifically lays the smack down on the social science research done at the "top schools":

With rare exceptions, I don’t admire researchers at top schools – or try to humbly build on their work.  At the same time, I’m not lazy.  And in all sincerity, I am not jealous.

Why not?  To be blunt, I deny the value of almost all of the social science research going on at top schools.  My reaction to 95% of the articles published in top economics journals isn’t so much “That’s wrong!” as “So what?”