''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' is a

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published by the

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for the

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Department of Economics. Its current

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are Robert J. Barro,

Lawrence F. Katz Lawrence Francis Katz (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Education and career He graduated from the University of California at Be ...

, Nathan Nunn,

Andrei Shleifer Andrei Shleifer ( ; born February 20, 1961) is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in ...

, and Stefanie Stantcheva.

History

It is the oldest professional journal of

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in the English language, and covers all aspects of the field—from the journal's traditional emphasis on micro-theory to both empirical and theoretical

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Reception

According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 6.662, ranking it first out of 347 journals in the category "Economics". It is generally regarded as one of the top 5 journals in economics, together with the

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, the Journal of Political Economy, and the

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Notable papers

Some of the most influential and well-read papers in economics have been published in the ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' including: * "Distribution as Determined by a Law of Rent" (1891), by

John B. Clark John Bates Clark (January 26, 1847 – March 21, 1938) was an American neoclassical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career as ...

Clark 1891: . * "The Positive Theory of Capital and Its Critics" (1895), by

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk (; born Eugen Böhm, 12 February 185127 August 1914) was an Austrian economist who made important contributions to the development of the Austrian School of Economics and neoclassical economics. He served intermittent ...

* "

Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory "Petty's Place in the History of Economic Theory" is an academic article, written by Charles Henry Hull and published in ''The Quarterly Journal of Economics'' in 1900. The article gives an overview of the life and work of William Petty, with a ...

" (1900), by

Charles Henry Hull Charles Henry Hull (September 29, 1864 – July 15, 1936) was an American economist and historian. He worked at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. In 1900, he was appointed professor of American History. In 1899, he published '' The Econom ...

* "Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Cost" (1924), by

Frank H. Knight Frank Hyneman Knight (November 7, 1885 – April 15, 1972) was an American economist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the founders of the Chicago School. Nobel laureates Milton Friedman, George S ...

* "The General Theory of Employment" (1937), by

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...

(an expansion on Keynes' '' General Theory'') * "The Interpretation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources" (1943), by

Howard Rothmann Bowen Howard Rothmann Bowen (October 27, 1908 – December 22, 1989) was an American economist and college president, serving as the president of Grinnell College from 1955 to 1964 and as the fourteenth President of the University of Iowa from 1964 to 19 ...

* " A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (1956), by

Robert Solow Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; born August 23, 1924) is an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He is currently Emeritus Institute Professor of Economics at the Ma ...

* " The Market for "Lemons": Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" (1970), by

George Akerlof George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. ...

* "Job Market

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" (1973), by Michael Spence * "Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: The economics of markets with imperfect information" (1976), by

Michael Rothschild Michael Rothschild (born August 2, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American economist; he is visiting professor at the Department of Economics of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and a former dean at Princeton. ...

and

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

* "A Reformulation of the Economic Theory of Fertility" (1988), by

Robert Barro Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas, J ...

and

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

* "A Theory of Competition among Pressure Groups for Political Influence" (1983), by Gary Becker * "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth" (1992), by

N. Gregory Mankiw Nicholas Gregory Mankiw (; born February 3, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics. Mankiw h ...

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 ...

, and David N. Weil * "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting" (1997), by

David Laibson David Isaac Laibson (born June 26, 1966) is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994. His research focuses on macroeconomics, intertemporal choice, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. In 2016, he bec ...

* "Does Social Capital Have An Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation" (1997) by Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer * "A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation" (1999), by

Ernst Fehr Ernst Fehr (born 21 June 1956 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian-Swiss behavioral economist and neuroeconomist and a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, as well as the vice chairman of the Department of Economics at the ...

and Klaus M. Schmidt * "Monetary Policy Rules And Macroeconomic Stability: Evidence And Some Theory" (2000), by

Richard Clarida Richard Harris Clarida (born May 18, 1957) is an American economist who served as the 21st Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2018 to 2022. Clarida resigned his post on January 14th 2022 to return from public service leave to teach at Columbi ...

Jordi Galí Jordi Galí (born January 4, 1961) is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today. He is currently the director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI, the Center fo ...

, and Mark Gertler * "Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence" (2002) by Timothy F. Bresnahan,

Erik Brynjolfsson Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs thDigital Economy Labat the Stanford Institute for Human-Cen ...

and Lorin M. Hitt

References

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