"most articles are not actually meant to be read"

From What Should an Economics Research Article Look Like? by Timothy Taylor:

... is a research article actually meant to be read, word-for-word, beginning to end? It seems plausible that if articles have become three times as long, then students and researchers living in a world with just 24 hours in a day can read only about one-third as many articles. My guess is that most articles are not actually meant to be read, but only to be skimmed.

The problems of economics apparently go deeper than we realize.