Econ Journal Watch(EJW) is a semiannual peer-reviewedelectronic journal established in 2004. It is published by the Fraser Institute. According its website, the journal publishes comments on articles appearing in other economics journals, essays, reflections, investigations, and classic critiques.[1] As of 2017, the Journal maintained a podcast, voiced by Lawrence H. White.[2]
As of 2011, the editor-in-chief was Daniel B. Klein, a libertarian economist and professor at George Mason University.[3] In 2018, the managing editor was Jason Briggeman.[4] As of 2022, the Fraser Institute claimed nine Nobel laureates had been on the Journal's advisory council.[5]
The journal welcomes submissions of comments on articles that appear in economics journals as well as essays, reflections, and investigations that speak to the nature and character of economics research and professional economists.[1] EJW publishes critical commentaries and "watches the journals for inappropriate assumptions, weak chains of argument, phony claims of relevance, omissions of pertinent truths, and irreplicability".[1]
Notable articles
A 2010 study by Zeljka Buturovic and Klein published in Econ Journal Watch purported to show that conservatives and libertarians were better informed than liberals about economics.[6][7][8] After receiving criticism, the authors adjusted their research questions in a new study, and published its different findings in 2011.[8][3][9][10]Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, who had called the 2010 study "hackery" and "obviously designed to portray conservatives as better informed",[7] offered the authors praise in 2011 for the revisions.[8]
A study published in Econ Journal Watch in 2016 said that American university professors were much more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.[11][12][13]
