The ''Journal of Economic Literature'' is a

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, published by the American Economic Association, that surveys the academic literature in

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. It was established in 1963 as the ''Journal of Economic Abstracts'',Journal of Economic Literature: About JEL
retrieved 6 May 2011. and is currently one of the highest ranked journals in economics.
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, it mainly features essays and reviews of recent economic theories (as opposed to the latest research). The

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. In January 2022, the AEA announced that

David Romer David Hibbard Romer (born March 13, 1958) is an American economist, the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of a standard textbook in graduate macroeconomics as well as many influ ...

would become the editor beginning in July 2022. The journal originated a widely used

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for publications in the field of economics.

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