After leaving those dozen or so sheets of paper behind, Lu Zhou walked away with effortless flair.
Looking at the stack of A4 paper in Xiao Tong's hands, Professor Krugman opened his mouth, speechless. He fell silent for a moment, seemingly unsure how to begin, before finally speaking.
"This is a gift from your brother. How you use it should be your decision."
"You can publish it under your own name, or you can choose another approach. I don't want my opinion to influence you, even though I would recommend the former... After all, your brother clearly doesn't care much about achievements in economics, and he hopes this can help you... Of course, the choice is still yours."
Although academia punished academic fraud and plagiarism severely, it did not scrutinize who had actually completed a piece of research too closely.
It was much like how some unscrupulous supervisors exploited their students, even robbing them of their research results. Unless things became particularly ugly, to the point of driving someone to jump off a building, people generally did not take it seriously.
Likewise, if a generous supervisor was willing to give a student something they had worked hard to produce, academia would usually assume that the fool had voluntarily relinquished ownership of the research.
After all, there were so many researchers in the world. If people did not honor agreements and instead relied on "a bit of rational analysis" to guess who had produced which results, wouldn't the whole world descend into chaos?
Besides, nobody had that much time to waste.
Even flawed rules were better than no rules at all.
Therefore, in theory, if Xiao Tong published these results in a paper as her own, whether or not she had the ability to write such a paper, academia would accept