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Most-Downloaded Articles During 2024

Of the articles published in EJW between 2004 and 2024, here are the top twenty in downloads during 2024. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

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Most-Downloaded Articles During 2024
Rank Published Author(s) Title Downloads
1Mar. 2024Jeremiah Green and John R. M. HandMcKinsey’s Diversity Matters/Delivers/Wins Results Revisited28,845
2Mar. 2024David BarkerGlobal Non-Linear Effect of Temperature on Economic Production: Comment on Burke, Hsiang, and Miguel4,648
3Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?4,543
4May 2013Robert SolowWhy Is There No Milton Friedman Today?3,989
5May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth3,986
6Jan. 2013Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskeyWe Agree That Statistical Significance Proves Essentially Nothing: A Rejoinder to Thomas Mayer3,648
7May 2011Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and KleinEconomics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views)3,478
8Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology3,062
9May 2013James K. GalbraithMistah Friedman? He Dead.2,809
10Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands2,804
11Mar. 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 Shooters2,795
12Sept. 2006Andrew Kashdan and Daniel B. KleinAssume the Positional: Comment on Robert Frank2,651
13Sept. 2016Daniel SchwekendiekIncentivizing Exports in Academic Planning: The Rise of South Korea and Lessons for Underdeveloped Nations2,606
14Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?2,594
15Sept. 2024John A. GentryCritique of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Diversity Claims2,144
16Mar. 2020Bartley J. MaddenScience on FDA Liberalization: A Response to the Status Quo Process for Medical Treatments2,090
17May 2016Friedrich A. HayekThe Meaning of Competition2,031
18Mar. 2024Michael Christopher O’Connor Revisiting Hypothesis Testing with the Sharpe Ratio2,021
19Sept. 2007Daniel B. Klein, ed.Economists Against Smoot-Hawley1,983
20Mar. 2019Adam LankfordConfirmation That the United States Has Six Times Its Global Share of Public Mass Shooters, Courtesy of Lott and Moody’s Data1,857

Most-Downloaded Articles 2004–2024

Of the articles published in EJW since 2004, here are the top thirty in total downloads through December 31, 2024. These numbers do not include downloads of the complete-issue PDF for the respective issue.

Most-Downloaded Articles Through December 31, 2024
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)98,376
2Jan. 2009Blair JenkinsRent Control: Do Economists Agree?66,053
3Dec. 2004Peter MinowitzAdam Smith’s Invisible Hands63,728
4Sept. 2008Dennis Coates and Brad R. HumphreysDo Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events?52,190
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 200645,736
6Jan. 2008Robert S. Goldfarb and Jon Ratner“Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass44,778
7May 2009Gavin KennedyAdam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth42,130
8Dec. 2006Daniel B. Klein and Stewart DompeReasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement39,750
9Sept. 2016Langbert, Quain, and KleinFaculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology34,756
10May 2014Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas TalebReligion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management34,619
11Jan. 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, 1989–200234,595
12Sept. 2016Charlotta SternUndoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem32,961
13May 2010Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. KleinEconomic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans30,042
14Mar. 2024Jeremiah Green and John R. M. HandMcKinsey’s Diversity Matters/Delivers/Wins Results Revisited28,845
15Sept. 2007Daniel B. Klein, ed.Economists Against Smoot-Hawley27,763
16Aug. 2004Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre Nansen McCloskeySize Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review26,492
17Sept. 2009Robert WhaplesThe Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey25,965
18Sept. 2010William R. AllenA Life Among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA25,894
19Aug. 2005Lawrence H. WhiteThe Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics25,327
20Apr. 2004Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene M. PierceStock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle24,470
21Aug. 2005Richard H. TimberlakeGold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy23,883
22Apr. 2004Daniel B. Klein and Eric ChiangThe Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?23,866
23Jan. 2008Douglas M. WalkerDo Casinos Really Cause Crime?23,802
24Sept. 2012James TooleyBig Questions and Poor Economics: Banerjee and Duflo on Schooling in Developing Countries23,538
25Sept. 2008Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. MarvellThe Debate on Shall-Issue Laws23,393
26May 2007Daniel B. Klein and Pedro P. RomeroModel Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory23,012
27Apr. 2005Fred E. FoldvaryGeo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists22,528
28Aug. 2004Shirley SvornyLicensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree?21,902
29May 2007Ian VasquezPeter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development21,642
30Dec. 2004Dan JohanssonEconomics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks21,179

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads 2004–2024

Below are listed the issues of EJW from 2024 back to 2004, along with the number of times the complete PDF of each issue had been downloaded through December 31, 2024.

Complete-Issue PDF Downloads Through December 31, 2024
Issue Downloads
21(2): September 2024489
21(1): March 20242,731
20(2): September 20232,709
20(1): March 20231,215
19(2): September 20221,109
19(1): March 20221,342
18(2): September 20211,258
18(1): March 20212,663
17(2): September 20204,161
17(1): March 20201,675
16(2): September 2019462
16(1): March 20192,431
15(3): September 20182,449
15(2): May 20182,098
15(1): January 20182,897
14(3): September 20173,206
14(2): May 20172,990
14(1): January 20172,367
13(3): September 20165,356
13(2): May 20169,384
13(1): January 20166,108
12(3): September 20156,850
12(2): May 20157,506
12(1): January 20155,485
11(3): September 20146,448
11(2): May 201410,205
11(1): January 20145,715
10(3): September 201316,288
10(2): May 20137,939
10(1): January 20136,525
9(3): September 20129,632
9(2): May 20125,314
9(1): January 20125,848
8(3): September 201111,059
8(2): May 20115,247
8(1): January 20118,476
7(3): September 20108,453
7(2): May 20108,231
7(1): January 20108,864
6(3): September 20096,534
6(2): May 20095,904
6(1): January 200916,429
5(3): September 20088,606
5(2): May 200810,147
5(1): January 200810,422
4(3): September 200710,681
4(2): May 200712,775
4(1): January 200710,326
3(3): September 200610,616
3(2): May 200614,113
3(1): January 200617,186
2(2): August 200511,038
2(1); April 200512,492
1(3): December 200416,335
1(2): August 200413,503
1(1): April 200424,879