Journal of Economic Literature

Article	Citations
Book Reviews	425
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality	376
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success	304
Book Reviews	233
Book Reviews	231
Book Reviews	121
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor	110
JEL Classification System	108
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	107
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics	105
When Democracy Falters: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay on Polarization, Populism, and Authoritarianism	100
How Unique is VC’s American History?	98
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason	90
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	87
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	87
Book Reviews	86
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List	83
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History	80
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List	78
King, Michael R. Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services	77
From Micro to Macro Development	74
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws	74
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory	72
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 3	71
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History	69

Book Reviews	65
JEL Classification System	58
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 2	56
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	53
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	53
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	52
JEL Classification System	46
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age	46
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	42
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century	42
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism	42
Information Cascades and Social Learning	37
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	35
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	34
Jia, Ruixue and Hongbin Li. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China	34
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt	31
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 4	30
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 3	29
Annotated Listing of New Books	25
Annotated Listing of New Books	25
Book Reviews	23
Artificial Intelligence–Powered (Finance) Scholarship	22
The Economics of Social Media	21
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	21
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance	20
What Universities Owe Democracy	20
Book Reviews	19
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
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation	17
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting	17
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies	17
Religion and Growth	16
Blustein, Paul. King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World’s Dominant Currency	13
Annotated Listing of New Books	13
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide	13
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups	13
Annotated Listing of New Books	12
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson	12
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay	11
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe	11
Book Reviews	11
Book Reviews	11
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	11
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal	10
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia	10
Volckart, Oliver. The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency	10
Annotated Listing of New Books	10
China’s Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms	10
Bassiri, Nima. Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value	9
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay	9

JEL Classification System	8
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	8
Housing and Inequality	8
Local Projections	7
The Beautiful Dataset	7
Measurement Systems	7
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 1	6
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960	6
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology	6
Book Reviews	6
The Theory of Financial Stability Meets Reality: A Unifying Framework for Bank Regulation and Accounting Discretion	6
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future	6
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 2	5
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	5
W. E. B. Du Bois and Economics: A Reappraisal	4
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics	4
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions	4
Caldwell, Bruce and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Hayek: A Life 1899–1950; Yadav, Vikash. Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism	4
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires	3
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2023, Volume LXI, Number 1	3
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care	3
Carbon Taxes	3
How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay	3
JEL Classification System	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
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List	2
The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice	2
Binder, Carola. Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy	2
James, Harold. Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization	1
Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship	1
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	1
Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil	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
Annotated Listing of New Books	1
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	1
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children	1
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics	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
The Economics of Religion	1
Edwards, Sebastian. The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism	1
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	1
Doctor Decision-Making and Patient Outcomes	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
JEL Classification System	1
Kaczynski, Steve and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create	1
Journal of Economic Literature , September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 4	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 1	0
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis	0
Palladino, Lenore. Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy	0
Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide	0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies	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
The Unequal Effects of Globalization	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?	0
Goldstein, Jorge. Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology	0
JEL Classification System	0
Palen, Marc-William. Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World	0
Book Reviews	0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	0
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	0
Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution	0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation	0
Cochrane, John H. The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level	0
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	0
Book Reviews	0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything	0
Drott, Eric. Streaming Music, Streaming Capital	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

Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life	0
Book Reviews	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Book Reviews	0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health	0
Sunstein, Cass R. Decisions about Decisions: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life	0
Social Protection in the Developing World	0
Coyle, Diane. The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters	0
Merrill, Thomas W. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State	0
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr	0
Human Capital and Racial Inequality in the US Labor Market	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 3	0
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?	0
JEL Classification System	0
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	0
No Taxation without Administration: Bringing the State Back into the Public Finance of Developing Countries	0
How Do Central Banks Control Inflation? A Guide for the Perplexed	0
JEL Classification System	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Prioritarianism in Practice	0
Kasy, Maximilian. The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)	0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey	0
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	0
Eaton, Charlie. Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education	0
JEL Classification System	0
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs	0
The Economics of Attention	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance	0
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	0
JEL Classification System	0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars	0
New Russian Economic History	0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	0
Kaplow, Louis. Rethinking Merger Analysis	0
Imperfect Competition in Financial Markets: Recent Developments	0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 4	0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change	0
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past	0
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review	0
Book Reviews	0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy	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
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-Second Annual List	0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries	0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England	0
Journal of Economic Literature , June 2026, Volume LXIV, Number 2	0
Workforce Development in the United States: Recent Trends and Evidence	0
JEL Classification System	0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote	0
Game Theory and the First World War	0
Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters	0
Whittaker, D. Hugh. Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation	0
Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review ofEconomic Prehistoryby Dow and Reed	0
Book Reviews	0
Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance	0
Bach, Maria. Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists	0
Book Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	0
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke	0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond	0
JEL Classification System	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 3	0
The Political Economy of Populism	0
Moschella, Manuela. Unexpected Revolutionaries: How Central Banks Made and Unmade Economic Orthodoxy	0
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	0
Book Reviews	0
The Resilient Society	0
Book Reviews	0
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime	0
Optimal Income Taxation	0
France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789	0
Allensworth, Rebecca Haw. The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong	0
The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review	0
Alderman, Brianna L. and Roger D. Blair. Monopsony in Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy	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
Book Reviews	0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century	0
Journal of Economic Literature , March 2026, Volume LXIV, Number 1	0
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	0
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today	0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	0
Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Insights from Economic Research	0
Ogilvie, Sheilagh. Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid	0
Edmans, Alex. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It	0