ecopol-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a topic is a timely, important policy question the Economic Policy (EP) Panel would commission and want to debate. Tests Panel-worthiness and policy timeliness; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection (ecopol-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You are deciding whether a question is worth pitching to *Economic Policy* or developing for a possible commission - A coauthor asks "is this an EP paper, or a field-journal paper dressed up as policy?" - The topic is technically interesting but you cannot name the **decision** a policymaker faces - The question risks reading as last decade's debate rather than a live European/global policy issue - You need to know which of the two likely discussants (academic vs. policy) would find it worth their time ## The EP topic bar: would the Panel commission this? Since the 2025 relaunch, EP is **commissioned and online-only** — the Managing Editor invites papers on the journal's thematic priorities; unsolicited papers are not accepted (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). In practice the realistic route is to **become the obvious person to commission**: circulate a working draft, pitch the Managing Editor, or get visible inside the CEPR/CESifo/Sciences Po networks. So topic selection is really *Panel selection*: would the Panel put this in front of two discussants and a room of economists and policymakers? A topic clears the EP bar when it sat
- When to trigger
- The EP topic bar: would the Panel commission this?
- Branch by what kind of policy question it is
- How to sharpen a weak topic
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecopol-topic-selection skill do?
Use when judging whether a topic is a timely, important policy question the Economic Policy (EP) Panel would commission and want to debate. Tests Panel-worthiness and policy timeliness; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-topic-selection --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.