Economics Editing and Proofreading Services

A model produces the result that the policy reduces welfare. Somewhere on page four, an agent was given rational expectations, a single representative household was assumed, and credit constraints were left out. Any one of those may be doing the work. If the reader has to reverse-engineer which, the paper has published a conclusion without publishing its reasoning.

We edit what economists write — theoretical models and their assumption sections, applied policy analyses, macroeconomic and monetary work, labour and public economics papers, industrial organisation studies, calibration and simulation documentation, literature reviews and surveys, central bank and institutional reports, and theses, working papers and referee responses. Our editors work on the assumptions and what they are carrying.

Economic argument stands on its assumptions, and the failure is a set of them introduced as technical convenience when they are in fact the result. A conclusion that follows from an assumption rather than from evidence is a conditional statement and should read like one. We work through these so each substantive assumption is stated where it is made and in words as well as notation, since a reader cannot audit a claim smuggled in as a functional form; so the assumptions doing the work are separated from those made for tractability, because a paper that treats all its assumptions as equally innocuous has hidden its own mechanism; so the intuition for the result is given before the algebra and in terms of behaviour rather than derivatives; so the model's driving comparative static is identified and explained, given that a reader who understands why the sign flips can use the paper and one who only sees that it flips cannot; so calibrated parameters are sourced individually with what they were estimated on and how far the result moves if they change; so the boundary of the model is stated — what it deliberately does not include and in which direction that omission cuts; and so policy implications are drawn no wider than the model's assumptions allow. Papers written this way are argued with rather than cited in passing.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including working papers, unpublished models and institutional reports. We are editors rather than economists, and we offer no view on models, calibration or policy conclusions. What we can do is make the assumptions visible where they are used.