Virtual Issues
The Economic Journal publishes regular virtual issues which gather together key articles from previous issues on current topics in the field. Explore past virtual issues below.
December 2024
This virtual issue of The Economic Journal brings together 16 papers, previously published by the journal, that explore various dimensions of the pandemic’s impact. The papers are grouped into three broad categories: (a) the general economics of infectious diseases and pandemics, (b) the evaluation of policies to manage COVID-19, and (c) the use of the pandemic as an experiment to shed light on interesting economic phenomena.
June 2024
This virtual issue on “Religion and Economics” compiles 16 papers, published in The Economic Journal, which exemplify how our discipline has approached the economics of religion, both theoretically and empirically.
November 2023
Over the past two decades, income and wealth inequality have gained significant attention in news and academia. This virtual issue of The Economic Journal features 11 articles highlighting how economics addresses inequality through three themes: measurement, theoretical exploration, and the role of beliefs in financial market wealth inequality.
July 2023
This virtual issue showcases 12 papers published in The Economic Journal, focusing on the economics of education and education policy
May 2022
This virtual issue of The Economic Journal features twelve papers on the economics of conflict, which were previously published in the journal. The issue comes at a time of dramatic resurgence of conflict and mass displacement of civilians in the heart of Europe.
March 2020
In this virtual issue, we showcase some of the latest thinking on the economics of crime, published in recent years in The Economic Journal. The range of articles published spans the entire globe, from post-riots London to Vietnam, China and the US.
November 2019
This collection brings together recent papers that study opportunities and challenges that an increasingly-connected world generates for firms, workers, and policymakers.
April 2019
This collection covers a wide range of methods and issues–from politics, justice, education, all the way to demography–which illustrates the diversity of current research on gender.
