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The Vision

Economics is a pathbreaking journal, capturing the advantages of some highly successful natural science journals. It adopts an open source approach to publication, viewing research as a cooperative enterprise between authors, editors, referees and readers.

The journal has the following advantages:

  1. economics is free: It is costless to both readers and authors. After all, research is a public good.
  2. economics is quick: As it uses a public peer review process, publication lags are radically reduced.
  3. economics is widely disseminated: Papers can be sent to all interested readers, permitting a far wider readership than is the case with traditional journals.
  4. economics is democratic: The quality of an article is decided not just by the editors and referees, but also by the entire community of Registered Readers.
  5. economics is convenient: References are hyperlinked to the literature; articles are linked to related material, e.g., data sets and mathematical derivations.
  6. economics is up to date: Authors can upload revised versions of their publications, in response to the public peer review.

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New: Recommend Paper In addition to commenting and rating you can now simply recommend an interesting article to other readers
Special Issue: Reconstructing Macroeconomics Editor: Masanao Aoki and Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Special Issue: Discounting the Long-Run Future and Sustainable Development Editor: Phoebe Koundouri
Eric Maskin Co-Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize
Special Issue: Using Econometrics for Assessing Economic Models Editor: Katarina Juselius
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Advisory Board
  • George A. Akerlof
  • Gary S. Becker
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati
  • Willem H. Buiter
  • Lawrence Christiano
  • Alan Deardorff
  • Avinash Dixit
  • Robert Feenstra
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • James J. Heckman
  • Edward Leamer
  • Assar Lindbeck
  • Eric Maskin
  • Robert Mundell
  • Maurice Obstfeld
  • Amartya Sen
  • A. Michael Spence
  • Guido Tabellini
  • Jeffrey G. Williamson