ecopol-literature-positioning
Use when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature. Sharpens the policy-and-academic positioning; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-literature-positioning --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Positioning (ecopol-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution is clear to specialists but the *policy* novelty is fuzzy - A reviewer/discussant could say "we already knew this" or "this is just AEJ:EP / J.Pub.E. material" - The draft cites the academic frontier but ignores the policy-debate frontier (think tanks, central banks, the Commission) - You cannot say in one sentence what the paper changes for the policy conversation - The framing leans on one country/episode and a discussant will ask "why does Europe/the world care?" ## EP positions on two frontiers at once Most economics journals ask you to position against one literature — the academic frontier. EP asks for **two simultaneous positions**, because the paper is published with two discussants (one academic, one policy) and read by both audiences: 1. **The academic frontier** — the peer-reviewed work on the mechanism/method. Standard, but keep it lean: EP prose is accessible, so the lit review is a paragraph that names the gap, not a survey. 2. **The policy-debate frontier** — what policymakers, central banks, the European Commission, the IMF, the OECD, CEPR/CESifo policy outlets currently b
- When to trigger
- EP positions on two frontiers at once
- Positioning moves by situation
- Sibling boundaries (write these into the intro)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecopol-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's contribution against the live policy debate and the adjacent academic literature. Sharpens the policy-and-academic positioning; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-literature-positioning --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.