1 | May 2011 | Davis, Figgins, Hedengren, and Klein | Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views) | 86,899 |
2 | Dec. 2004 | Peter Minowitz | Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands | 52,116 |
3 | Jan. 2009 | Blair Jenkins | Rent Control: Do Economists Agree? | 50,917 |
4 | Jan. 2008 | Daniel B. Klein and Harika Anna Barlett | Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006 | 43,262 |
5 | Sept. 2008 | Dennis Coates and Brad R. Humphreys | Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events? | 43,007 |
6 | Jan. 2008 | Robert S. Goldfarb and Jon Ratner | “Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass | 41,221 |
7 | Dec. 2006 | Daniel B. Klein and Stewart Dompe | Reasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement | 36,841 |
8 | Jan. 2010 | Lars Jonung and Eoin Drea | It Can’t Happen, It’s a Bad Idea, It Won’t Last: U.S. Economists on the EMU and the Euro, 1989–2002 | 31,266 |
9 | May 2009 | Gavin Kennedy | Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth | 31,040 |
10 | Sept. 2016 | Charlotta Stern | Undoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem | 29,560 |
11 | May 2010 | Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. Klein | Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans | 27,126 |
12 | May 2014 | Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management | 24,162 |
13 | Sept. 2016 | Langbert, Quain, and Klein | Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology | 23,715 |
14 | Aug. 2004 | Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review | 22,785 |
15 | Sept. 2009 | Robert Whaples | The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey | 22,686 |
16 | Aug. 2005 | Lawrence H. White | The Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics | 22,382 |
17 | Sept. 2010 | William R. Allen | A Life Among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA | 22,139 |
18 | Aug. 2005 | Richard H. Timberlake | Gold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy | 22,070 |
19 | Apr. 2004 | Daniel B. Klein and Eric Chiang | The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias? | 21,820 |
20 | Sept. 2007 | Daniel B. Klein, ed. | Economists Against Smoot-Hawley | 21,201 |
21 | May 2007 | Daniel B. Klein and Pedro P. Romero | Model Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory | 21,094 |
22 | Apr. 2004 | Edwin D. Maberly and Raylene M. Pierce | Stock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle | 21,033 |
23 | Sept. 2008 | Carlisle E. Moody and Thomas B. Marvell | The Debate on Shall-Issue Laws | 20,958 |
24 | Jan. 2008 | Douglas M. Walker | Do Casinos Really Cause Crime? | 20,888 |
25 | Apr. 2005 | Fred E. Foldvary | Geo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists | 19,350 |
26 | Dec. 2004 | Dan Johansson | Economics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks | 19,111 |
27 | Sept. 2012 | James Tooley | Big Questions and Poor Economics: Banerjee and Duflo on Schooling in Developing Countries | 19,001 |
28 | Aug. 2004 | Shirley Svorny | Licensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree? | 18,580 |
29 | Apr. 2005 | Daniel B. Klein | The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics | 18,419 |
30 | Apr. 2005 | Bryan Caplan | From Friedman to Wittman: The Transformation of Chicago Political Economy | 17,765 |