Journal of Economic Literature

Article	Citations
Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success	294
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality	274
Book Reviews	266
Book Reviews	209
Book Reviews	155
Book Reviews	123
Data Engineering for Cognitive Economics	123
Bessy, Christian. Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labor	92
JEL Classification System	91
Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash	91
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021, Volume LIX, Number 3	90
Book Reviews	84
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries	77
How Unique is VC’s American History?	74
A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason	69
Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	65
Book Reviews	64
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twelfth Annual List	62
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Nineteenth Annual List	61
Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory	60
A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws	58
From Micro to Macro Development	57
Geisst, Charles R. Just Price in the Markets: A History	51
Book Reviews	51
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022, Volume LX, Number 3	50

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History	49
Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon	47
JEL Classification System	47
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 2	46
Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory	45
Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality	42
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?	42
JEL Classification System	41
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism	39
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age	39
The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction	37
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling	37
Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century	32
Information Cascades and Social Learning	29
Household Finance	24
What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer’s Disease?	24
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024, Volume LXII, Number 4	23
Annotated Listing of New Books	23
When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt	23
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023, Volume LXI, Number 3	23
Annotated Listing of New Books	22
Book Reviews	21
The Economics of Social Media	20
Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century	20
What Universities Owe Democracy	20
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation	19
Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies	18
Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting	18
Forecasting in the Presence of Instabilities: How We Know Whether Models Predict Well and How to Improve Them	15
Neal, Larry. The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase: European Bankers, the US, and the Rise of International Finance	15
Religion and Growth	14
What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues	13
The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups	12
Book Review: England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs	12
Annotated Listing of New Books	12
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	12
Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.—Mexico Divide	11
The Human Tide: A Review Essay	10
Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe	9
The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review	9
Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson	9
Annotated Listing of New Books	8
Book Reviews	8
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay	8
Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia	7
Annotated Listing of New Books	7
How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare	6
Ten Years of Evidence: Was Fraud a Force in the Financial Crisis?	6
Larry Ball’s The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay	6
Measurement Systems	6

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Eighteenth Annual List	6
Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal	6
Local Projections	5
Housing and Inequality	5
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024, Volume LXII, Number 1	4
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future	4
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology	4
Book Reviews	4
Caldwell, Bruce and Hansjoerg Klausinger. Hayek: A Life 1899–1950; Yadav, Vikash. Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism	3
Banzhaf, H. Spencer. Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics	3
The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960	3
Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions	3
The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies	3
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2023, Volume LXI, Number 2	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	2
JEL Classification System	2
Book Reviews	2
We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care	2
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2023, Volume LXI, Number 1	2
Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-book Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty	2
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires	2
The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People	1
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19	1
The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice	1
A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	1
A Journey into Harold Hotelling’s Economics	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 Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti’s Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids	1
Deep Learning for Economists	1
Annotated Listing of New Books	1
The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education	1
Hysteresis and Business Cycles	1
Armstrong, Mary A. and Susan L. Averett. Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work	1
Book Reviews	1
Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil	1
Doctoral Dissertations in Economics One-Hundred-Twenty-First Annual List	1
The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children	1
The Economics of Attention	0
Book Reviews	0
Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis	0
Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation	0
The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers	0
Book Reviews	0
Palen, Marc-William. Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World	0
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything	0
Book Reviews	0
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021, Volume LIX, Number 4	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality	0
Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr	0
Mshomba, Richard E. Africa and Preferential Trade: An Unpredictable Path for Development	0
Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars	0
JEL Classification System	0
The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 1	0
Optimal Income Taxation	0
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana	0
Book Reviews	0
Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics	0
A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century	0
A Review of Robert Sugden’sCommunity of Advantage	0
Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity	0
Book Review: Voting over a Distributed Ledger: An Interdisciplinary Perspective	0
Prioritarianism in Practice	0
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today	0
Merrill, Thomas W. The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State	0
The Unequal Effects of Globalization	0
A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Kaplow, Louis. Rethinking Merger Analysis	0
Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention	0
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs	0
JEL Classification System	0
The Resilient Society	0
Journal of Economic Literature, June 2024, Volume LXII, Number 2	0

New Russian Economic History	0
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism	0
JEL Classification System	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Book Reviews	0
Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review	0
The Economics of Religion	0
Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications	0
Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act	0
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change	0
Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
Book Review: Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency?	0
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions	0
Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023, Volume LXI, Number 4	0
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow?	0
Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us	0
JEL Classification System	0
Book Reviews	0
Automated Linking of Historical Data	0
Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom	0
Kahrl, Andrew W. The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America	0
JEL Classification System	0
Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights	0
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years	0
Game Theory and the First World War	0
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment	0
Book Reviews	0
Book Reviews	0
Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches	0
JEL Classification System	0
Consumer Credit Reporting Data	0
Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance	0
New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children’s Outcomes?	0
A Survey on Income Inequality in China	0
Book Reviews	0
Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy	0
Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2024, Volume LXII, Number 3	0
Symposium: Race and Economic Literature—Introduction	0
Designing Information Provision Experiments	0
France after 1789: Essay on Elster’s France before 1789	0
Book Reviews	0
JEL Classification System	0
Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments	0
Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life	0
Book Reviews	0
Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?	0
JEL Classification System	0
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries	0
How Experiments with Children Inform Economics	0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	0
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health	0
Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women’s Vote	0
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era	0
Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times	0
Book Reviews	0
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England	0
The Political Economics of Non-democracy	0
Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy	0
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?	0
Edmans, Alex. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It	0
Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion	0
Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies	0
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis	0
Social Protection in the Developing World	0
Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists	0
The Economic Impact of the Black Death	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
JEL Classification System	0
Muralidharan, Karthik. Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance	0
Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey	0
Book Reviews	0
Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review ofEconomic Prehistoryby Dow and Reed	0
Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime	0
A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke	0
Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, Volume LX, Number 1	0
Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past	0
Review of Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences	0
JEL Classification System	0
The Political Economy of Populism	0
An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy	0
Annotated Listing of New Books	0
JEL Classification System	0
Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025, Volume LXIII, Number 3	0
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021	0
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond	0