Journal of Economic Perspectives

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Discipline	Economics
Language	English
Edited by	Heidi Williams
Publication details
History	1987–present
Publisher	American Economic Association (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Econ. Perspect.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0895-3309 (print) 1944-7965 (web)
LCCN	88648124
JSTOR	08953309
OCLC no.	16474127
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It is oriented around the twin goals of "providing perspective on current economic research, and explaining how economics provides perspective on questions of general interest."^[2][3] According to its editors its purpose is:

1. to synthesize and integrate lessons learned from active lines of economic research;
2. to provide economic analysis of public policy issues; to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the fields of thinking;
3. to offer readers an accessible source for state-of-the-art economic thinking;
4. to suggest directions for future research;
5. to provide insights and readings for classroom use;
6. and to address issues relating to the economics profession.

Its current editorisHeidi Williams, and its managing editorisTimothy Taylor.

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