One and one-half months for a paper on Shakespeare and Behavioral Economics!

Five Drafts is back! 

OK, there was that paper from three years ago about Nudging Drug Use. I did indeed produce an almost complete(?) version for an October, 2022 conference, but then did nothing more -- until the past month. Here's the ssrn.com version (posted yesterday, so still preliminary) of Nudging Drug Use! The recent surge of activity on the paper is related to my Winter 2025 revival, after a 15 year or so interregnum, of my Regulation of Vice course. The next step is to send Nudging Drug Use off to a journal. Let me suggest a tight deadline for that, say, June 16, 2025 -- Bloomsday!

While I am updating the situation with previous Five Drafts endevours, let me mention that the published version of the Parthenon Marbles paper, retitled "Athens or London? The Parthenon Marbles and economic efficiency," is available (open access) here.

But the recalling to life of Five Drafts has nothing to do with this previous, unfinished business. No, Five Drafts is back because I want to write a paper in the next 1.5 months or so. The paper is about Shakespeare and Behavioral Economics -- a topic I have been blogging about on and off over the years. The idea is to build my Shakespeare collection, which in terms of publications (but not of mulling) is miniscule: here's the one (open access -- do you sense a pattern?)! I'll post a schedule, maybe for an Abstract and three drafts, on the sidebar. For the Abstract (which will no doubt be wildly incompatible with the contents of the finished version of the paper), I'll go with tomorrow: June 15, 2025.

Excited to be back drafting!

What Next?

Well, I have fallen a draft behind, so it is time to re-optimize, as it were. I still need two more drafts, I think, but I am not yet ready to extend the timeline for this project. So, I need a short fuse for Draft Three(a) to appear: I'll go with Friday, March 21, and keep  Draft Four(a) scheduled for Thursday, April 3. Despite my recent lack-of-performance, I maintain that this schedule is doable.

Draft Two(a), including the partial references that I did not post, is roughly 6,100 words. This is good, as it gives me some room to work with, as the final version should come in at about 8,000 words.

Having fallen behind, at least let me mention that I did indeed accomplish my modest reading goal of finishing David Nutt's Drugs -- Without the Hot Air -- a book that I enjoyed quite a bit, and I hope one from which I learned quite a bit, too. For my next reading trick, well, I am not quite ready to commit to anything concrete, but I think I will tackle a book on prostitution policy.

Recalled to Life

Yes, Five Drafts is back, recalled to life, but new and improved by eliminating (at least?) one draft. The goal is once again a vice policy article, this one for an edited handbook. The title of my contribution will be, in all likelihood, "Regulating Vice," also the title of my 2008 book. The final version will weigh in at about 8000 of your standard English words, apparently. The schedule is now quite expedited, as reflected in the following due dates:

Draft #1: Monday, February 10, 2014 --  In keeping with Five Drafts tradition, this might be a well-less-than-complete draft;
Draft #2: Tuesday, February 25, 2014;
Draft #3: Wednesday, March 12, 2014;
Draft #4 (or should we call it Draft #5?): Thursday, April 3, 2014.

OK, off we go....