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Econ Journal Watch Asked recently Scholars with at least 4,000 total citations to their work listed in Google Scholar to provide a description of their “underrated” articles. The work in question must have a publication date before 2012 and the number of citations on Google Scholar must be less than the number of authors. H index On that site; It also cannot be incorporated into a book. I hope Just under 4,400 Google Scholar citationsSo I qualify.

So I made my choice:what if Kilo v. City of New London Did it go the other way?“,” Indiana Law Review 45 (2011): 21-39. Econ Journal Watch published My summary of what the article covers, along with input from other qualified scholars:

This article challenges conventional wisdom about the impact of one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial recent rulings, which ruled that the government can seize property for private “economic development.” Some have suggested that because the defeat led to a major political backlash against the abuse of eminent domains, the decision actually helped the cause of copyright protection. I argue that property rights advocates would have been better off had they won the case. In addition, I develop a more general framework for using counterfactual analysis to evaluate the impact of court decisions. The latter has importance far beyond the specific context kilo issue.

Why was the article undervalued? I think the biggest reason is that most people have ignored the general framework of counterfactual analysis of the impact of court decisions, which has significance that goes far beyond kilo. In addition, the article overshadowed my other well-known works kilo and eminent domain, incl my book about this subject. The other factor is that it was published at a symposium in a not-so-high-profile law journal.

While this is, in my opinion, my most underrated article that fits the criteria, it is probably my most underrated article truly thiswhich missed the cut because it was published in 2014, and was later partially incorporated into a book.

The Econ Journal See summaries of underrated articles (see here And here), includes many interesting nominations by prominent scholars, including Nick Bostrom, Andrew Gilman, Sam Peltzman, Richard Wagner, Brian Kaplan, Alex Tabaruk, and many others. Because EJW is run by economists, there are more contributions from this field than from others. But there are still some from other areas, including my own contribution.

Update: Cynics may wonder if I think I have any exaggerated articles. Actually I do! The most exaggerated is probably this. The catchy title (“Knowledge of Ignorance”) may explain how it received so much attention.