Journal of Economic Literature

Article	Citations
Book Reviews	364
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality	326
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success	266
Book Reviews	179
Book Reviews	163
Book Reviews	106
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics	104
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor	100
JEL Classification System	99
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	87
How Unique is VC’s American History?	77
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason	77
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	75
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	75
Book Reviews	74
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List	73
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History	72
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List	70
King, Michael R. Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services	66
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws	65
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory	63
From Micro to Macro Development	62
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 3	62
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History	58
Book Reviews	56

JEL Classification System	56
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 2	51
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	50
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	47
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	46
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age	46
JEL Classification System	44
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism	43
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	43
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century	42
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	33
Information Cascades and Social Learning	32
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	32
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt	30
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 4	29
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 3	27
Book Reviews	26
Annotated Listing of New Books	26
Annotated Listing of New Books	26
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	25
The Economics of Social Media	23
What Universities Owe Democracy	22
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance	21
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation	21
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting	20
Book Review: England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs	17
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies	17
Annotated Listing of New Books	17
Religion and Growth	17
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	16
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups	14
Annotated Listing of New Books	14
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide	14
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson	12
Book Reviews	11
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	10
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe	10
Book Reviews	9
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia	8
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay	8
Annotated Listing of New Books	7
Measurement Systems	7
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal	7
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	7
China’s Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms	7
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay	7
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 1	6
Book Reviews	6
Housing and Inequality	6
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	6

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology	6
The Beautiful Dataset	6
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960	6
Local Projections	6
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future	6
Caldwell, Bruce and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Hayek: A Life 1899–1950; Yadav, Vikash. Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism	5
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 2	5
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics	4
Book Reviews	4
Carbon Taxes	4
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions	4
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care	3
JEL Classification System	3
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
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires	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	2
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics	2
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	2
Deep Learning for Economists	2
Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil	2
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	2
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List	2
James, Harold. Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization	2
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19	2
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People	1
JEL Classification System	1
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	1
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy	1
JEL Classification System	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
Armstrong, Mary A. and Susan L. Averett. Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work	1
Mshomba, Richard E. Africa and Preferential Trade: An Unpredictable Path for Development	1
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	1
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	1
JEL Classification System	1
Annotated Listing of New Books	1
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	1
The Economics of Religion	1
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children	1
The Economics of Attention	1
JEL Classification System	1
The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers	1
Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times	1
Kaczynski, Steve and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create	1
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis	0
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	0
Book Reviews	0
Consumer Credit Reporting Data	0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	0
The Resilient Society	0
A Review of Robert Sugden’sCommunity of Advantage	0
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research	0
Book Reviews	0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies	0
Book Reviews	0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything	0
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	0
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
Book Reviews	0
Journal of Economic Literature , September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 4	0
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	0
Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences	0
Sunstein, Cass R. Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life	0
Book Reviews	0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health	0
Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	0
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies	0
Book Reviews	0
Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life	0
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act	0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey	0
New Russian Economic History	0
Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters	0
The Unequal Effects of Globalization	0

Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance	0
Book Reviews	0
Whittaker, D. Hugh. Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 3	0
Coyle, Diane. The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters	0
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Drott, Eric. Streaming Music, Streaming Capital	0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke	0
The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)	0
Moschella, Manuela. Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy	0
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime	0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
The Political Economics of Non-democracy	0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation	0
Book Review: Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency?	0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England	0
Culture, Institutions, and Social Equilibria: A Framework	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	0
Liquidity Traps: A Unified Theory of the Great Depression and the Great Recession	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past	0
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses	0
Meritocracy and Representation	0
Book Reviews	0
Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
Book Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	0
Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets: Recent Developments	0
The Economic Impact of the Black Death	0
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World	0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	0
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	0
Game Theory and the First World War	0
Data and the Aggregate Economy	0
Making Wise Decisions in a Smart World: Responsible Leadership in an Era of Artificial Intelligence	0
JEL Classification System	0
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	0
Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity	0
Edmans, Alex. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It	0
Kaplow, Louis. Rethinking Merger Analysis	0
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-Second Annual List	0
JEL Classification System	0
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021	0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution	0
Book Reviews	0
Designing Information Provision Experiments	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us	0
The Political Economy of Populism	0
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment	0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote	0
Book Reviews	0
JEL Classification System	0
JEL Classification System	0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars	0
JEL Classification System	0
Prioritarianism in Practice	0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change	0
Optimal Income Taxation	0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries	0
The Economics of Infectious Diseases	0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review	0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century	0
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	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
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr	0
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 1	0
What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe’sSocial Mobility and Education in Britain	0
Merrill, Thomas W. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State	0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	0
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	0
What is Certain about Uncertainty?	0
Cochrane, John H. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level	0
Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review ofEconomic Prehistoryby Dow and Reed	0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy	0
Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 4	0
Social Protection in the Developing World	0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs	0
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?	0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	0
Book Reviews	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
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America	0