Classifying Economics for the Common Good: Connecting Sustainable Development Goals to JEL Codes

Heikkilä, Jussi

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3570112

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Classifying Economics for the Common Good: Connecting Sustainable Development Goals to JEL Codes

15 Pages Posted: 5 May 2020

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Jussi Heikkilä

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)

Date Written: April 5, 2020

Abstract

How does economics research help in solving societal challenges? This brief note sheds additional light on this question by providing ways to connect Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. These simple linkages illustrate that the themes of SDGs have corresponding JEL classification codes. As the mappings presented here are necessarily imperfect and incomplete, there is plenty of room for improvements. In an ideal world, there would be a JEL classification system for SDGs, a separate JEL code for each of the 17 SDGs.

Keywords: JEL codes, social development goals, Agenda 2030, keyword search

JEL Classification: A11, O20, Q01

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Heikkilä, Jussi, Classifying Economics for the Common Good: Connecting Sustainable Development Goals to JEL Codes (April 5, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3570112 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3570112