EJW editorial team warmly welcomes Professor Garett Jones! 16 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm

Econ Journal Watch is delighted to welcome Garett Jones as a new Co-Editor of the journal. Jones is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University (link to Jones’s homepage). His resea...

Frank Stephenson on Occupational Licensing and Labor Economics 24 Jul 2013 | 07:08 pm

Frank Stephenson discusses his 2009 EJW article with Erin Wendt on the scant coverage of occupational licensing (OL) in labor economics textbooks. The scantiness raises interesting questions, given th...

Increased coverage of occupational licensing in labor economics textbooks 24 Jul 2013 | 07:08 pm

In a new EJW Audio podcast, Frank Stephenson discusses the 2009 EJW article “Occupational Licensing: Scant Treatment in Labor Texts” that he co-authored with Erin Wendt. Here is a note from Stephenson...

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Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2013 21 May 2013 | 08:25 pm

In Memoriam (pdf) In this issue: Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? A symposium co-sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University Imagine that someone with all the endowments of a...

Table of Contents May 2013 21 May 2013 | 08:23 pm

In Memoriam: Armen Alchian 21 May 2013 | 08:23 pm

Regression Costs Fall, Mining Ratios Rise, Publication Bias Looms, and Techniques Get Fancier: Reflections on Some Trends in Empirical Macroeconomics 21 May 2013 | 08:23 pm

The following deals with an ‘iceberg’ property of empirical economic research: Only a small fraction of the statistical estimates done are actually published, so most of the berg is hidden below the w...

Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? A Symposium Prologue 21 May 2013 | 08:22 pm

Sitting on a sofa On a Sunday afternoon, Going to the candidates’ debate, Laugh about it, Shout about it, When you’ve got to choose, Every way you look at this you lose. Where have you gone, Jo...

Hugh Rockoff on Free-Banking Episodes 31 Mar 2013 | 11:09 pm

Hugh Rockoff discusses his EJW paper (with Ignacio Briones) on the findings of economic historians with regard to periods during which banks were lightly regulated. Rockoff explains the nature of thes...