Econ Journal Watch

Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Browse the Archive

Articles by Section

Intellectual Tyranny of the Status Quo: Professional Scholarship from 1893 to 2020 on Adam Smith’s Views on School Funding: A Heterodox Examination by Scott Drylie; Government-Cheerleading Bias in Money and Banking Textbooks by Nicholas A. Curott, Tyler Watts, and Benjamin R. Thrasher; Why Did Milton Friedman Win the Nobel Prize? A Consideration of His Early Work on Stabilization Policy by James Forder and Hugo Monnery; Property: A Bundle of Rights? Prologue to the Property Symposium by Daniel B. Klein and John Robinson; Bundle-of-Sticks Notions in Legal and Economic Scholarship by Eric R. Claeys; Two Cheers for the Bundle-of-Sticks Metaphor, Three Cheers for Merrill and Smith by Robert C. Ellickson; Bundle-of-Rights Theory as a Bulwark Against Statist Conceptions of Private Property by Richard A. Epstein; The Regulative Function of Property Rights by Larissa Katz; The Property Prism by Thomas W. Merrill; The False Promise of the Right to Exclude by Adam Mossoff; A Bundle Theorist Holds On to His Collection of Sticks by Stephen R. Munzer; Potentiality, Actuality, and “Stick”-Theory by J. E. Penner; Property Is Not Just a Bundle of Rights by Henry E. Smith; Colleagues, Where Is the Market Failure? Economists on the FDA by Daniel B. Klein; Reply to Hortlund’s “Defense of the Real Bills Doctrine” by Richard H. Timberlake; In Defense of the Real Bills Doctrine by Per Hortlund; Damned If You Do: Comment on Schuler’s Argentina Analysis by David Altig; Argentina’s Problems Went Far Beyond the Absence of a Strict Currency Board: Comment on Schuler by Brad Setser; Reply to David Altig and Brad Setser by Kurt Schuler; Gold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy by Richard H. Timberlake; Ignorance and Influence: U.S. Economists on Argentina’s Depression of 1998–2002 by Kurt Schuler; Geo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists by Fred E. Foldvary; The Development Set: The Character of the Journal of Development Economics 2002 by Susan Anderson and Peter Boettke; Agricultural Economists and the State by E. C. Pasour, Jr.