Fall 2026 Journal of Economic Perspectives Freely Available Online

I have been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since the first issue in Summer 1987. The JEP is published by the American Economic Association, which decided back in 2011–to my delight–that the journal would be freely available online, from the current issue all the way back to the first issue. You can download individual articles or entire issues, and it is available in various e-reader formats, too. Here, I’ll start with the Table of Contents for the just-released Fall 2026 issue, which in the Taylor household is known as issue #158. Below that are abstracts and direct links for each of the papers. I plan to blog more specifically about some of the papers in the few weeks, as well. _________________ Symposium on Higher Education “The Meritocratic Consensus and Stratification in Higher Education,” by Zachary Bleemer and Jesse Rothstein Zachary Bleemer and Jesse Rothstein American colleges and universities are highly stratified by pre-college academic…

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