'''''The Economic Journal''''', published in the [[United Kingdom]], was the leading scholarly journal in economics for more than a hundred years. By the turn of the 21st century, it had declined to the second tier of [[economics]] journals.
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'''''The Economic Journal''''', published in the [[United Kingdom]], was the leading scholarly journal in [[economics]] for more than a hundred years. By the turn of the 21st century, it had declined to the second tier of [[economics]] journals.
The top four economics journals in the early part of the 21st century are:
The top four economics journals in the early part of the 21st century are:
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Several of these journals reflect the trend in academic economics towards mathematical or political treatments.
Several of these journals reflect the trend in academic economics towards mathematical or political treatments.