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.

Selected Papers

• Michael D. Bordo: Growing up to Financial Stability
• David Colander: Economists, Incentives, Judgment, and Empirical Work
• Paul Ormerod: Random Matrix Theory and the Evolution
  of Business Cycle Synchronisation, 1886–2006
• Gilles Saint-Paul: Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage
• Ilian Mihov, Andrew K. Rose: Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
• Friedrich Schneider: Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: New Estimates for 145 Countries
• Neil Bruce and Stephen J. Turnovsky: Variable Retirement and the Effects of Social Insurance on Savings, Wealth, and Welfare
• Willem Buiter: Seigniorage 
• Stephan Dees, Sean Holly, M. Hashem Pesaran and L. Vanessa Smith: Long Run Macroeconomic Relations in the Global Economy
• Katarina Juselius and Massimo Franchi: Taking a DSG Model to the Data Meaningfully
• Preston McAfee: Pricing Damaged Goods