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Thursday, October 25, 2007
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A Reader in England... ...tells UD about a developing story there involving the former Dean of Durham Business School, who, if allegations are correct, has been plagiarizing like a dervish for years. My reader describes a Times Higher Education Supplement article which will note that he appears to have '...copied his 1986 doctoral thesis (University of York) from three other sources: a paper by Professor Koppenhaver, "Risk Aversion and Futures Market Behaviour", a thesis by Professor Stephen Taylor (Lancaster, 1978) and a thesis by Dosung Chung (Washington University, 1982). Furthermore an article he wrote in 1988 for the "Journal of Business and Society" is largely based on another article from the "The Journal of Futures Markets" of 1983.' The person in question remains a professor of finance at Durham. And, because of the nature of the web, he continues to be listed as Dean at many other sites. It's early days on this one. UD will keep an eye on it. ---------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Professor Koppenhaver has kindly emailed UD some of his THES comments on the situation (the professor in question... er, might as well name him -- Tony Antoniou -- allegedly copied a paper by Koppenhaver as part of his doctoral thesis): "The probability that two authors use the same sources six years apart to write exactly the same thing including quotes is nil... |