jle-literature-positioning
Use when the marginal contribution of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior law-and-economics work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (jle-identification) or the prose (jle-writing-style).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-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 (jle-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A referee or co-author asks "what is new here relative to [the closest law-and-economics paper]?" - The introduction cites Coase, Becker, Stigler, and Posner as scenery but never states the marginal addition - You are unsure whether your contribution is a new *answer*, a new *legal source of variation*, a new *institution/jurisdiction*, a new *mechanism*, or a new *measure of a legal object* - The paper risks reading as a re-run of a classic JLE result with newer data ## The JLE contribution bar At JLE the contribution is judged as **a credibly identified (or rigorously modeled) answer to a law-and-economics question the field has not settled**, positioned against the *closest* prior work — including the foundational JLE canon the field already treats as established. Becker (crime/deterrence), Coase (social cost), Stigler/Peltzman (regulation/capture), Demsetz (property), Priest–Klein (litigation selection) are not papers you re-derive; they are the baseline you must add to. Name your contribution type, then position only against the work that threatens it. | Contribution type | What "new" must mean at JLE |
- When to trigger
- The JLE contribution bar
- Positioning craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Positioning across the law-and-economics sibling journals
- Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix
- Crediting the canon without re-deriving it
- Where the contribution sentence goes
- Output format
What does the jle-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the marginal contribution of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript is fuzzy or undersold and must be staked precisely against prior law-and-economics work. Positions the contribution; it does not fix the identification (jle-identification) or the prose (jle-writing-style).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-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 909 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.