Journal of Economic Literature

Article	Citations
Book Reviews	334
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality	294
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success	242
Book Reviews	172
Book Reviews	144
Book Reviews	99
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics	97
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor	94
JEL Classification System	94
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	89
Book Reviews	84
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason	73
How Unique is VC’s American History?	70
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	68
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List	68
Book Reviews	68
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	68
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List	65
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History	65
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory	62
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws	60
From Micro to Macro Development	58
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 3	57
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History	57
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon	51

Book Reviews	51
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 2	49
JEL Classification System	49
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	47
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	45
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	45
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age	44
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?	34
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	31
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	30
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt	29
Information Cascades and Social Learning	29
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 4	28
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 3	26
Annotated Listing of New Books	25
Annotated Listing of New Books	25
Book Reviews	24
The Economics of Social Media	23
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	22
What Universities Owe Democracy	21
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting	20
Religion and Growth	20
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance	20
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation	18
Annotated Listing of New Books	16
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies	16
Forecasting in the Presence of Instabilities: How We Know Whether Models Predict Well and How to Improve Them	16
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	15
Book Review: England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs	15
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide	14
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups	14
Annotated Listing of New Books	13
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe	11
The Human Tide: A Review Essay	11
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson	11
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	9
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay	9
Book Reviews	9
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal	8
Annotated Listing of New Books	8
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia	8
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay	7
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Eighteenth Annual List	7
Ten Years of Evidence: Was Fraud a Force in the Financial Crisis?	7
Measurement Systems	6
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	6
Housing and Inequality	6

Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future	6
Local Projections	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
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960	5
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology	5
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 2	5
Book Reviews	5
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	5
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 1	5
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics	4
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions	4
Carbon Taxes	4
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires	3
JEL Classification System	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
Book Reviews	3
Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty	3
Deep Learning for Economists	2
The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice	2
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	2
Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil	2
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care	2
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics	2
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	2
Annotated Listing of New Books	2
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List	2
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	2
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19	2
Annotated Listing of New Books	1
Kaczynski, Steve and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create	1
JEL Classification System	1
JEL Classification System	1
The Economics of Attention	1
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy	1
Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times	1
JEL Classification System	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
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	1
Mshomba, Richard E. Africa and Preferential Trade: An Unpredictable Path for Development	1
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People	1
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children	1
The Economics of Religion	1
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	1
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	1
Book Reviews	0
Social Protection in the Developing World	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
The Resilient Society	0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey	0
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke	0
The Political Economics of Non-democracy	0
Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review ofEconomic Prehistoryby Dow and Reed	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
JEL Classification System	0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	0
JEL Classification System	0
Book Reviews	0
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act	0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs	0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries	0
Prioritarianism in Practice	0
Book Reviews	0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	0
Mediation, Military, and Money: The Promises and Pitfalls of Outside Interventions to End Armed Conflicts	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
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis	0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change	0
Book Reviews	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Drott, Eric. Streaming Music, Streaming Capital	0
Optimal Income Taxation	0
Legal Markets	0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 4	0

Book Reviews	0
Merrill, Thomas W. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State	0
Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences	0
The Economic Impact of the Black Death	0
Book Reviews	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years	0
Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life	0
Kaplow, Louis. Rethinking Merger Analysis	0
France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789	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
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	0
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research	0
The Unequal Effects of Globalization	0
The Political Economy of Populism	0
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime	0
Book Review: Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency?	0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond	0
Book Reviews	0
Culture, Institutions, and Social Equilibria: A Framework	0
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past	0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review	0
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses	0
Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons	0
Book Reviews	0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything	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
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	0
Cochrane, John H. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level	0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021, Volume LIX, Number 4	0
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World	0
JEL Classification System	0
Meritocracy and Representation	0
Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention	0
New Russian Economic History	0
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies	0
Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity	0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution	0
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	0
Game Theory and the First World War	0
JEL Classification System	0
Book Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	0
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 1	0
Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters	0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	0
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2024, Volume LXII, Number 2	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights	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
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America	0
Designing Information Provision Experiments	0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote	0
Book Reviews	0
Consumer Credit Reporting Data	0
JEL Classification System	0
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance	0
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment	0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
A Review of Robert Sugden’sCommunity of Advantage	0
Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance	0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century	0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation	0
Encouraging Desistance from Crime	0
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	0
Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner’s Guide	0
Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	0
Perspectives on Race/Ethnicity and Economic Justice	0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health	0
Making Wise Decisions in a Smart World: Responsible Leadership in an Era of Artificial Intelligence	0
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	0
Vaheesan, Sandeep. Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today	0
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis	0
A Survey on Income Inequality in China	0
Book Reviews	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
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	0
Symposium: Race and Economic Literature—Introduction	0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England	0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies	0
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	0
JEL Classification System	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 3	0