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3 unusual facts about Journal of Political Economy


Carlos Alfredo Rodríguez

He has published more than 60 papers in international journals, including Econometrica, American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy.

Compassion International

An empirical study published in the Journal of Political Economy showed that the sponsorship of children through Compassion International resulted in significantly higher rates of children completing school and greatly improved adult employment outcomes.

Pioneers of American Freedom

Joseph Dorfman, in his review in the Journal of Political Economy, credits Rocker with writing one of the first treatments of American radical history, considering it a "welcome supplement" to Eunice M. Schuster's Native American Anarchism.


Heterogeneity in economics

Krusell and Smith (JPE 1998) permit an arbitrary distribution of wealth but assume all prices and equilibrium variables are approximately functions of the mean or of a few other statistics of that distribution.


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