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Writing a Rejection Letter (with Samples)

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For example: [Their name], Thanks for your patience while I reviewed this proposal. We’ve published a lot on cybersecurity lately, and unfortunately the proposed piece overlaps a bit too much with other articles we’ve published. Thanks again for taking the time to put this proposal together for us. Offer hope.

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

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You can find lots of scholars at top economics departments who study why bubbles and crashes happen, and how psychology and genetics shape individual decisionmaking. And economists are dubious of his proposals for massive agent-based computer models of the economy. The other big idea in the 1988 article was chaos theory.