Journal of Economic Literature

Article	Citations
Book Reviews	413
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality	367
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success	299
Book Reviews	223
Book Reviews	221
Book Reviews	119
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	109
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor	105
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics	101
JEL Classification System	101
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason	98
How Unique is VC’s American History?	89
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	86
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	86
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List	84
Book Reviews	84
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History	76
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory	75
King, Michael R. Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services	75
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List	75
From Micro to Macro Development	74
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws	74
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 3	71
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History	68
Book Reviews	66

JEL Classification System	61
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 2	57
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	54
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	52
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	51
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age	45
JEL Classification System	43
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism	42
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century	41
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	40
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	39
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	34
Information Cascades and Social Learning	34
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt	32
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 4	30
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 3	30
Annotated Listing of New Books	29
Annotated Listing of New Books	29
The Economics of Social Media	24
Book Reviews	24
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	21
Artificial Intelligence–Powered (Finance) Scholarship	21
What Universities Owe Democracy	20
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance	19
Book Reviews	18
Chew, Donald H., Jr. The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations	18
Religion and Growth	18
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting	18
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation	17
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies	17
Annotated Listing of New Books	16
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups	13
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide	12
Book Reviews	12
Annotated Listing of New Books	12
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	11
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe	11
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson	11
Book Reviews	11
Annotated Listing of New Books	10
Volckart, Oliver. The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency	10
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia	10
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal	10
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay	10
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	9
Measurement Systems	9
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay	9
Housing and Inequality	9
China’s Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms	9
JEL Classification System	8

The Beautiful Dataset	8
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future	7
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 2	6
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 1	6
Local Projections	6
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology	6
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960	6
Caldwell, Bruce and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Hayek: A Life 1899–1950; Yadav, Vikash. Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism	6
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	6
Book Reviews	6
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions	5
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics	5
Book Reviews	4
W. E. B. Du Bois and Economics: A Reappraisal	4
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires	4
Carbon Taxes	4
The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice	3
How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay	3
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2023, Volume LXI, Number 1	3
James, Harold. Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization	3
Deep Learning for Economists	3
Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty	3
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List	3
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care	3
JEL Classification System	3
Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship	2
Doctor Decision-Making and Patient Outcomes	2
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics	2
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children	2
Elliott, Robert. The Economics of the UK Health and Social Care Labour Market: How Labour Economics Can Inform Policy toward the Frontline Care Workforce	1
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People	1
Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil	1
The Economics of Religion	1
JEL Classification System	1
The Economics of Attention	1
Mshomba, Richard E. Africa and Preferential Trade: An Unpredictable Path for Development	1
Annotated Listing of New Books	1
JEL Classification System	1
JEL Classification System	1
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy	1
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	1
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	1
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	1
Kaczynski, Steve and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create	1
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	1
Armstrong, Mary A. and Susan L. Averett. Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work	1
The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers	1
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	1
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	1
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?	0
Coyle, Diane. The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters	0
Alderman, Brianna L. and Roger D. Blair. Monopsony in Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy	0
The Unequal Effects of Globalization	0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy	0
Kaplow, Louis. Rethinking Merger Analysis	0
No Taxation without Administration: Bringing the State Back into the Public Finance of Developing Countries	0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond	0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey	0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	0
Whittaker, D. Hugh. Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021	0
The Resilient Society	0
JEL Classification System	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
Goldstein, Jorge. Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology	0
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment	0
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	0
Book Reviews	0
JEL Classification System	0
Liquidity Traps: A Unified Theory of the Great Depression and the Great Recession	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Culture, Institutions, and Social Equilibria: A Framework	0
Book Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	0
The Historical Perspective on the Donald Trump Puzzle: A Review of Barry Eichengreen’s The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era	0
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century	0

Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	0
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis	0
Drott, Eric. Streaming Music, Streaming Capital	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	0
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past	0
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	0
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market	0
Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity	0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	0
The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review	0
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-Second Annual List	0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England	0
JEL Classification System	0
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies	0
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2024, Volume LXII, Number 2	0
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years	0
Palladino, Lenore. Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy	0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	0
Game Theory and the First World War	0
New Russian Economic History	0
Edmans, Alex. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It	0
Book Reviews	0
The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)	0
Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us	0
Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life	0
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime	0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke	0
Designing Information Provision Experiments	0
Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets: Recent Developments	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
JEL Classification System	0
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance	0
Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance	0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution	0
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America	0
Meritocracy and Representation	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
JEL Classification System	0
Cochrane, John H. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level	0
Allensworth, Rebecca Haw. The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong	0
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 4	0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change	0
Sunstein, Cass R. Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life	0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries	0
Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide	0
Ogilvie, Sheilagh. Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid	0
Merrill, Thomas W. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State	0
Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review ofEconomic Prehistoryby Dow and Reed	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 3	0
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	0
Social Protection in the Developing World	0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs	0
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
How Do Central Banks Control Inflation? A Guide for the Perplexed	0
Moschella, Manuela. Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy	0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters	0
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 1	0
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr	0
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research	0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars	0
Book Reviews	0
The Political Economics of Non-democracy	0
Optimal Income Taxation	0
The Political Economy of Populism	0
Consumer Credit Reporting Data	0
Bach, Maria. Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists	0
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis	0
Journal of Economic Literature , September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 4	0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health	0
The Economics of Infectious Diseases	0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation	0
Book Reviews	0
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?	0
Making Wise Decisions in a Smart World: Responsible Leadership in an Era of Artificial Intelligence	0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything	0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	0
France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789	0
Prioritarianism in Practice	0
Book Reviews	0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote	0
Journal of Economic Literature , March 2026, Volume LXIV, Number 1	0