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Most-Downloaded Articles During 2025

Of the articles published in EJW between 2004 and 2025, here are the top twenty in downloads during 2025. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

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Most-Downloaded Articles During 2025
Rank Published Author(s) Title Downloads
1Mar. 2024Jeremiah Green and John R. M. HandMcKinsey’s Diversity Matters/Delivers/Wins Results Revisited16,630
2Mar. 2025Ivan KatchanovskiWho Perpetrated the Maidan Massacre? Who Overthrew the Ukrainian Government in 2014? A Critique of "Battleground Ukraine"12,267
3May 2013John BlundellWhere Is the Next Rose Director?4,988
4Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?4,921
5Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?4,301
6May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth4,168
7March 2022Ronald H. CoaseThe Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas3,689
8Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology3,574
9Sept. 2007Daniel B. Klein, ed.Economists Against Smoot-Hawley3,445
10May 2011Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and KleinEconomics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)3,314
11Sept. 2025Friedrich A. HayekThe End of Truth3,297
12Sept. 2022Edmund BurkeSeveral Scattered Hints Concerning Philosophy and Learning Collected Here from My Papers3,246
13Sept. 2022David BarkerTemperature and U.S. Economic Growth: Comment on Colacito, Hoffmann, and Phan3,213
14Sept. 2023David BarkerTemperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Comment on Dell, Jones, and Olken3,082
15Sept. 2024John A. GentryCritique of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Diversity Claims3,057
16Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands2,909
17Mar. 2020John R. Lott, Jr. and Carlisle E. MoodyBrought Into the Open: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries in the Rate of Public Mass Shooters2,706
18May 2016Paul D. Mueller Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator2,677
19Mar. 2024David BarkerGlobal Non-Linear Effect of Temperature on Economic Production: Comment on Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel2,658
20Apr. 2004Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene M. PierceStock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle2,556

Most-Downloaded Articles 2004–2025

Of the articles published in EJW since 2004, here are the top thirty in total downloads through December 31, 2025. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

Most-Downloaded Articles Through December 31, 2025
Rank Published Author(s) Title Downloads
1May 2011Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and KleinEconomics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)101,690
2Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?70,354
3Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands66,637
4Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?57,111
5May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth46,298
6Jan. 2008Robert S. Goldfarb and Jon Ratner“Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass45,516
7Mar. 2024Jeremiah Green and John R. M. HandMcKinsey’s Diversity Matters/Delivers/Wins Results Revisited45,475
8Jan. 2008Daniel B. Klein and Harika Anna BarlettLeft Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 200640,791
9Dec. 2006Daniel B. Klein and Stewart DompeReasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement40,761
10Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology38,330
11May 2014Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas TalebReligion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management36,610
12Jan. 2010Lars Jonung and Eoin DreaIt Can’t Happen, It’s a Bad Idea, It Won’t Last: U.S. Economists on the EMU and the Euro, 1989–200235,754
13Sept. 2016Charlotta SternUndoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem33,866
14Sept. 2007Daniel B. Klein, ed.Economists Against Smoot-Hawley31,208
15May 2010Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. KleinEconomic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans31,050
16Aug. 2004Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre Nansen McCloskeySize Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review27,623
17Sept. 2009Robert WhaplesThe Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey27,461
18Aug. 2005Lawrence H. WhiteThe Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics27,093
19Sept. 2010William R. AllenA Life Among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA27,082
20Apr. 2004Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene M. PierceStock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle27,026
21Jan. 2008Douglas M. WalkerDo Casinos Really Cause Crime?24,767
22Apr. 2004Daniel B. Klein and Eric ChiangThe Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?24,625
23Aug. 2005Richard H. TimberlakeGold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy24,539
24Sept. 2008Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. MarvellThe Debate on Shall-Issue Laws24,257
25May 2007Daniel B. Klein and Pedro P. RomeroModel Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory23,972
26Apr. 2005Fred E. FoldvaryGeo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists23,852
27Aug. 2004Shirley SvornyLicensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree?22,980
28May 2007Ian VasquezPeter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development22,979
29Mar. 2019Adam LankfordConfirmation That the United States Has Six Times Its Global Share of Public Mass Shooters, Courtesy of Lott and Moody’s Data22,596
30Dec. 2004Dan JohanssonEconomics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks21,878

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads 2004–2025

Below are listed the issues of EJW from 2025 back to 2004, along with the number of times the complete PDF of each issue had been downloaded through December 31, 2025.

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads Through December 31, 2025
Issue Downloads
21(2): September 20251,269
21(2): March 20251,056
21(2): September 20241,091
21(1): March 20244,319
20(2): September 20234,079
20(1): March 20231,927
19(2): September 20221,748
19(1): March 20222,061
18(2): September 20211,574
18(1): March 20214,214
17(2): September 20205,157
17(1): March 20202,284
16(2): September 2019838
16(1): March 20192,571
15(3): September 20182,638
15(2): May 20182,613
15(1): January 20183,274
14(3): September 20173,925
14(2): May 20173,671
14(1): January 20172,904
13(3): September 20165,981
13(2): May 201610,367
13(1): January 20167,089
12(3): September 20157,660
12(2): May 20158,686
12(1): January 20155,810
11(3): September 20147,192
11(2): May 201411,300
11(1): January 20146,242
10(3): September 201317,599
10(2): May 20138,438
10(1): January 20136,948
9(3): September 201210,421
9(2): May 20125,655
9(1): January 20126,266
8(3): September 201112,581
8(2): May 20115,623
8(1): January 20119,033
7(3): September 20108,850
7(2): May 20109,176
7(1): January 20109,449
6(3): September 20096,829
6(2): May 20095,938
6(1): January 200917,169
5(3): September 20089,695
5(2): May 200810,999
5(1): January 200811,067
4(3): September 200711,374
4(2): May 200713,586
4(1): January 200711,252
3(3): September 200611,399
3(2): May 200614,907
3(1): January 200617,742
2(2): August 200511,901
2(1); April 200513,045
1(3): December 200418,340
1(2): August 200414,183
1(1): April 200425,487