jpe-literature-positioning
Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript — situating the contribution in the economics literature with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpe-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 & Introduction (jpe-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work section reads as an annotated list ("X did A. Y did B.") - The introduction never states crisply what economics learns from this paper - Reviewers (or you) cannot tell which literature the paper is contributing to - You are unsure whether you have engaged the canonical theory the result speaks to ## What JPE wants from positioning JPE introductions are economic arguments, not literature catalogs. The reader should finish the first three pages knowing: the economic question, the mechanism, what was already known, the precise gap, and what you do about it. Positioning is judged on whether you have placed the paper against the **right** literature and engaged the **theory** the result bears on — not merely the most recent applied papers. Because JPE is price-theory rooted, a credible intro usually connects to a body of *theory* (the model or mechanism the evidence tests), not only to prior empirical estimates. Often the foundational paper lives in JPE itself — Stigler's "The Economics of Information" (JPE 1961), Becker's "Crime and Punishment" (JPE 1968), or Black and Scholes (JP
- When to trigger
- What JPE wants from positioning
- The JPE introduction arc (five moves)
- Positioning checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jpe-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript — situating the contribution in the economics literature with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpe-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.