Journal of Political Economy

The Journal of Political Economy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. It covers both theoretical and empirical economics. It was established in 1892 by James Laurence Laughlin.[1] In January 2020, the journal will move to a monthly publication schedule.[2]

Journal of Political Economy
DisciplineEconomics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byHarald Uhlig
Publication details
History1892–present
Publisher
University of Chicago Press (United States)
FrequencyBimonthly
5.247 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Political Econ.
Indexing
CODENJLPEAR
ISSN0022-3808 (print)
1537-534X (web)
LCCN08001721
JSTOR00223808
OCLC no.300934604
Links

Its current editor-in-chief is Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 5.247, ranking it 18th out of 353 journals in the category "Economics".[3]

Notable papers

Among the most influential papers that appeared in the Journal of Political Economy are:[4]

... stated Hotelling's rule, laid foundations to non-renewable resource economics.[5]
... first to apply econometric methods to a historic question, which triggered the development of Cliometrics.[6]
... highly influential for introducing the Black–Scholes model for option pricing.[7]
... re-introduced the Ricardian equivalence to macroeconomics, pointing out flaws in Keynesian theory.[8][9]
... influential new classical critique of Keynesian macroeconomic modelling.[10]
... the second of two papers in which Romer laid foundations to the endogenous growth theory.[11]
... revived the field of economic geography, introducing the core–periphery model.[12]

References
  1. Ross B. Emmett (ed.), The Chicago Tradition in Economics 1892-1945, Taylor & Francis, 2002, p. xix.
  2. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe/pr/190524
  3. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Economics". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018.
  4. Amiguet, Lluis; Gil-Lafuente, Anna M.; Kydland, Finn E.; Merigo, Jose M. (2017). "One Hundred Twenty-Five Years of the Journal of Political Economy: A Bibliometric Overview". Journal of Political Economy. 125. ISSN 1537-534X.
  5. Devarajan, Shantayanan; Fisher, Anthony C. (1981). "Hotelling's 'Economics of Exhaustible Resources': Fifty Years Later". Journal of Economic Literature. 19 (1): 65–73. JSTOR 2724235.
  6. Fogel, Robert William; Engerman, Stanley L. (1989). "Slavery and the Cliometric Revolution". Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-31218-8.
  7. Read, Colin (2012). The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230274174.
  8. Hoover, Kevin D. (1988). The New Classical Macroeconomics. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 140–149. ISBN 978-0-631-17263-5.
  9. White, Lawrence H. (2012). "From Pleasant Deficit Spending to Unpleasant Sovereign Debt Crisis". The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years. Cambridge University Press. pp. 382–411. ISBN 9781107012424.
  10. Thomas, R. L. (1993). Introductory Econometrics: Theory and Applications (2nd ed.). Harlow: Longman. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-582-07378-4.
  11. Romer, David (2011). Advanced Macroeconomics (Fourth ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780073511375.
  12. Fujita, M.; Thisse, J.-F. (2002). "Industrial agglomeration under monopolistic competition". Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location and Regional Growth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521805247.


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