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The person who did this fraud decided that symbolic capital > economic capital (by being in academia/govt).



The problem being, we have "economized" academia, by things like "publish or perish", a citation pseudo stock market or third party funding, and all incentives are built around this pseudo-economy. Which also imports all the common incentives found in economy…




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