The Economic Journal

The Economic Journal (EJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society (RES) by Wiley-Blackwell. First published in 1891, the EJ is one of the founding journals of economics and has a worldwide reputation for excellence in its field. The EJ publishes papers from all areas of economics and has eight issues a year.

The current joint managing editors are: Martin Cripps, (University College London), Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex), Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester), Morten Ravn (University College London), Kjell G. Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics), Frederic Vermeulen (University of Leuven) and Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich).

The Economic Journal was established in November 1890, at the inauguration of the British Economic Association (which became the Royal Economic Society in 1902). One of the central aims of the new society was to create a forum through which British economic research could be published. In a circular sent out before the inaugural meeting, Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), one of the founding members of the society, indicated the significant impact a new journal would have on British economic science:

...the need of an economic journal has long been felt in England. Every other country in which economic studies are pursued with great activity offers facilities for the publication of thorough scientific work... Englishmen (however)...are sometimes compelled to give their views to the world in the columns of a foreign periodical, or as a publication of the American Economic Association; but more frequently they put it aside till an opportunity should offer for working it out more fully and publishing it as a book; and that opportunity too often does not come.