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Most-Downloaded Articles During 2022

Of the articles published in EJW between 2004 and 2022, here are the top twenty in downloads during 2022. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

Most-Downloaded Articles During 2022
Rank Published Author(s) Title Downloads
1Mar. 2022Phillip W. Magness and Amelia JanaskieMisrepresenting Mises: Quotation Editing and a Rejection of Peer Review at Cambridge University Press4,793
2Mar. 2019Adam LankfordConfirmation That the United States Has Six Times Its Global Share of Public Mass Shooters, Courtesy of Lott and Moody’s Data4,292
3Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?3,426
4May 2014Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas TalebReligion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management3,105
5Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands2,981
6Mar. 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 Shooters2,943
7Sept. 2022David BarkerTemperature and U.S. Economic Growth: Comment on Colacito, Hoffmann, and Phan2,786
8Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology2,700
9May 2011Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and KleinEconomics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)2,490
10Mar. 2022Ronald H. CoaseThe Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas2,462
11Apr. 2004Rick Geddes Postal Reform2,291
12Mar. 2021Stephen WalkerCritique of an Article on Machine Learning in the Detection of Accounting Fraud2,205
13Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?2,134
14May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth2,111
15Mar. 2022Michael B. WeissmanInvalid Methods and False Answers: Physics Education Research and the Use of GREs1,729
16Mar. 2022Jason BriggemanLong-Run Determinants of Economic Growth: Putterman and Weil Revisited1,713
17Sept. 2022Stephen WalkerErroneous Erratum to Accounting Fraud Article1,710
18Sept. 2022Eva Forslund and Magnus HenreksonThe Virtues of Native Discourse: Striking a Balance Between English and the Native Language1,612
19Sept. 2022Daniel B. Klein, ed.What Are Your Most Underappreciated Works?: First Tranche of Responses1,602
20Mar. 2019John R. Lott, Jr. and Carlisle E. MoodyIs the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings? A Comment on Adam Lankford1,544

Most-Downloaded Articles 2004–2022

Of the articles published in EJW since 2004, here are the top thirty in total downloads through December 31, 2022. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

Most-Downloaded Articles Through December 31, 2022
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)92,303
2Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands58,266
3Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?58,102
4Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?47,340
5Jan. 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 200644,692
6Jan. 2008Robert S. Goldfarb and Jon Ratner“Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass43,746
7Dec. 2006Daniel B. Klein and Stewart DompeReasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement38,033
8May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth35,814
9Jan. 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, 1989–200232,741
10Sept. 2016Charlotta SternUndoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem31,485
11May 2014Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas TalebReligion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management31,174
12Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology29,718
13May 2010Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. KleinEconomic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans28,621
14Aug. 2004Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre Nansen McCloskeySize Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review24,506
15Sept. 2007Daniel B. Klein, ed.Economists Against Smoot-Hawley24,403
16Sept. 2010William R. AllenA Life Among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA24,320
16Sept. 2009Robert WhaplesThe Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey24,320
18Aug. 2005Lawrence H. WhiteThe Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics23,801
19Aug. 2005Richard H. TimberlakeGold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy22,974
20Apr. 2004Daniel B. Klein and Eric ChiangThe Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?22,932
21Apr. 2004Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene M. PierceStock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle22,602
22Jan. 2008Douglas M. WalkerDo Casinos Really Cause Crime?22,079
23May 2007Daniel B. Klein and Pedro P. RomeroModel Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory22,025
24Sept. 2008Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. MarvellThe Debate on Shall-Issue Laws22,005
25Sept. 2012James TooleyBig Questions and Poor Economics: Banerjee and Duflo on Schooling in Developing Countries21,444
26Apr. 2005Fred E. FoldvaryGeo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists20,957
27Dec. 2004Dan JohanssonEconomics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks20,200
28Aug. 2004Shirley SvornyLicensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree?20,174
29May 2007Ian VasquezPeter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development19,915
30Apr. 2005Daniel B. KleinThe Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics19,093

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads 2004–2022

Below are listed the issues of EJW from 2022 back to 2004, along with the number of times the complete PDF of each issue had been downloaded through December 31, 2022.

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads Through December 31, 2022
Issue Downloads
19(2): September 2022468
19(1): March 2022866
18(2): September 2021966
18(1): March 20212,234
17(2): September 20203,727
17(1): March 20201,351
16(2): September 2019301
16(1): March 20192,211
15(3): September 20182,285
15(2): May 20181,901
15(1): January 20182,219
14(3): September 20172,897
14(2): May 20172,783
14(1): January 20172,106
13(3): September 20164,489
13(2): May 20167,975
13(1): January 20165,397
12(3): September 20156,076
12(2): May 20156,640
12(1): January 20154,866
11(3): September 20145,420
11(2): May 20149,017
11(1): January 20144,994
10(3): September 201314,512
10(2): May 20137,019
10(1): January 20135,851
9(3): September 20128,617
9(2): May 20124,833
9(1): January 20125,509
8(3): September 20119,182
8(2): May 20114,761
8(1): January 20117,720
7(3): September 20107,939
7(2): May 20106,873
7(1): January 20108,220
6(3): September 20096,047
6(2): May 20095,854
6(1): January 200914,893
5(3): September 20088,023
5(2): May 20089,165
5(1): January 20089,451
4(3): September 20079,786
4(2): May 200711,845
4(1): January 20078,908
3(3): September 200610,056
3(2): May 200613,341
3(1): January 200616,800
2(2): August 200510,310
2(1); April 200512,014
1(3): December 200415,037
1(2): August 200412,721
1(1): April 200424,529