jleo-literature-positioning
Use when staking a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript's contribution against the new-institutional / positive-political-economy frontier — locating it relative to Williamson/North/Weingast and to sibling journals. Sharpens the contribution claim; it does not write the literature review prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-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 (jleo-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A referee or coauthor says "what is new here relative to the existing institutional-economics literature?" - The paper cites the canon (Williamson, Coase, Hart–Moore, North–Weingast) but does not say where it sits among them - The contribution reads as "first to study X in setting Y" rather than a conceptual advance - The literature review is a list of papers, not a map with the paper's coordinates marked - You are unsure whether the relevant frontier is the TCE/firm-theory literature or the PPE/institutions literature ## How to position at JLEO JLEO's readers are institutional and organizational economists and PPE scholars. A contribution lands when it is placed precisely on the **right frontier** and named as one of a small number of recognized move-types. Work through this: 1. **Pick the frontier, not "the literature."** JLEO spans at least four conversations: (a) transaction-cost economics / governance choice; (b) theory of the firm and contracts (property rights, incomplete contracts, residual control); (c) positive political economy (legislatures, courts, bureaucracies, federalism, separation of power
- When to trigger
- How to position at JLEO
- Contribution-type table
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jleo-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript's contribution against the new-institutional / positive-political-economy frontier — locating it relative to Williamson/North/Weingast and to sibling journals. Sharpens the contribution claim; it does not write the literature review prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-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.