Journal of Economic Literature

Article	Citations
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality	453
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success	395
Book Reviews	332
Book Reviews	259
Book Reviews	258
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor	156
JEL Classification System	133
When Democracy Falters: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay on Polarization, Populism, and Authoritarianism	123
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics	118
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	117
How Unique is VC’s American History?	115
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason	111
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	108
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	95
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List	94
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List	91
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History	91
King, Michael R. Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services	86
From Micro to Macro Development	85
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory	82
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 3	81
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History	80
JEL Classification System	74
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 2	67
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	65

Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	62
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age	56
JEL Classification System	50
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism	49
Jia, Ruixue and Hongbin Li. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China	49
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	44
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century	44
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	43
Information Cascades and Social Learning	39
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	39
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt	39
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 4	36
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 3	34
Annotated Listing of New Books	31
Book Reviews	30
Annotated Listing of New Books	30
Artificial Intelligence–Powered (Finance) Scholarship	28
The Economics of Social Media	24
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance	22
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	22
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting	22
What Universities Owe Democracy	22
Chew, Donald H., Jr. The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations	21
Book Reviews	21
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation	20
Blustein, Paul. King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency	19
Religion and Growth	18
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups	18
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies	18
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide	16
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson	15
Book Reviews	15
Annotated Listing of New Books	15
Book Reviews	14
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia	14
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	14
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay	14
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe	14
Bassiri, Nima. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value	13
Annotated Listing of New Books	13
Volckart, Oliver. The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency	13
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal	13
China’s Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms	12
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay	12
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	11
Measurement Systems	11
JEL Classification System	11
Housing and Inequality	10
Local Projections	9
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future	8

The Beautiful Dataset	8
Book Reviews	8
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology	7
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960	7
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 1	7
The Theory of Financial Stability Meets Reality: A Unifying Framework for Bank Regulation and Accounting Discretion	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
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 2	6
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	6
W. E. B. Du Bois and Economics: A Reappraisal	5
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics	5
Book Reviews	4
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions	4
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires	4
Carbon Taxes	4
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2023, Volume LXI, Number 1	3
How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay	3
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care	3
JEL Classification System	3
Binder, Carola. Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy	3
Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty	3
The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice	3
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List	2
Deep Learning for Economists	2
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children	1
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	1
James, Harold. Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization	1
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics	1
Annotated Listing of New Books	1
Mshomba, Richard E. Africa and Preferential Trade: An Unpredictable Path for Development	1
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
Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil	1
Doctor Decision-Making and Patient Outcomes	1
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	1
Edwards, Sebastian. The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism	1
JEL Classification System	1
The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers	1
Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship	1
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	1
Armstrong, Mary A. and Susan L. Averett. Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work	1
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People	1
Kaczynski, Steve and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create	1
The Economics of Religion	1
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	1
Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Insights from Economic Research	0
The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review	0
Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets: Recent Developments	0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke	0
Drott, Eric. Streaming Music, Streaming Capital	0
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	0
Book Reviews	0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?	0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs	0
Journal of Economic Literature , September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 4	0
New Russian Economic History	0
The Economics of Infectious Diseases	0
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review	0
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	0
Book Reviews	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters	0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything	0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	0
Eaton, Charlie. Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education	0
Designing Information Provision Experiments	0
Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance	0
Book Reviews	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 1	0
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment	0
Workforce Development in the United States: Recent Trends and Evidence	0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation	0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey	0
JEL Classification System	0
Journal of Economic Literature , March 2026, Volume LXIV, Number 1	0
Journal of Economic Literature , June 2026, Volume LXIV, Number 2	0

JEL Classification System	0
Book Reviews	0
How Do Central Banks Control Inflation? A Guide for the Perplexed	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	0
Optimal Income Taxation	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
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past	0
Bach, Maria. Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists	0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	0
Cochrane, John H. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level	0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century	0
Kasy, Maximilian. The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 4	0
Sunstein, Cass R. Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Book Reviews	0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England	0
The Resilient Society	0
Coyle, Diane. The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters	0
Book Reviews	0
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?	0
France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
No Taxation without Administration: Bringing the State Back into the Public Finance of Developing Countries	0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	0
Palen, Marc-William. Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World	0
Edmans, Alex. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It	0
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021	0
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond	0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy	0
The Political Economics of Non-democracy	0
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-Second Annual List	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies	0
Kaplow, Louis. Rethinking Merger Analysis	0
JEL Classification System	0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries	0
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	0
JEL Classification System	0
JEL Classification System	0
Game Theory and the First World War	0
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	0
Whittaker, D. Hugh. Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Book Reviews	0
JEL Classification System	0
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	0
Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 3	0
Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us	0
Goldstein, Jorge. Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology	0
Making Wise Decisions in a Smart World: Responsible Leadership in an Era of Artificial Intelligence	0
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis	0
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights	0
Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity	0
Merrill, Thomas W. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State	0
The Political Economy of Populism	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
JEL Classification System	0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution	0
Ogilvie, Sheilagh. Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid	0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote	0
Liquidity Traps: A Unified Theory of the Great Depression and the Great Recession	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 3	0
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2024, Volume LXII, Number 2	0
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis	0
Allensworth, Rebecca Haw. The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong	0
The Unequal Effects of Globalization	0
Palladino, Lenore. Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy	0
The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)	0
Prioritarianism in Practice	0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change	0
Moschella, Manuela. Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today	0
Consumer Credit Reporting Data	0
Book Reviews	0
Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide	0
Social Protection in the Developing World	0
JEL Classification System	0
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr	0
Human Capital and Racial Inequality in the US Labor Market	0
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health	0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies	0
The Economics of Attention	0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research	0
Alderman, Brianna L. and Roger D. Blair. Monopsony in Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy	0
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America	0