Simplification and Saving

I recently had a funding application on testing financial interventions to promote savings behaviour turned down (the body shall remain nameless) on the grounds that such work was "not innovative." The same group were of the view that the Day Reconstruction method was "weak methodologically" and not possible to validate. Its a shame the commitee did not tell this to all the major high-flying US economists who insist on pointlessly rolling out these pedestrian methodologies. Below is another example of some of the best people in our discipline engaging in more uninnovative work. As for me, i have learned my lesson. No more looking to such mediocre outlets as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, Science and Nature for suggestions as to where to direct my research. Any suggestions anyone for where i can find this methodologically innovative work that the funders seemed to think was out there?

http://www.nber.org/digest/may07/w12659.html