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arecon-literature-synthesis
Use when systematically gathering, reading, and synthesizing a body of economic research for an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) review — coverage discipline and avoiding citation gaps. Builds the evidence corpus and synthesis notes; it does not impose the analytical spine (arecon-organizing-framework) or appraise study credibility (arecon-evidence-standards).
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# Literature Synthesis (arecon-literature-synthesis)
## When to trigger
- The invitation is secured and it is time to read the field thoroughly
- Reading feels unsystematic; you fear missing important contributions an adjacent economist would expect
- You have many papers but no way to weigh, compare, or reconcile their findings
- A Committee referee is likely to ask "why did you omit X / the Y literature?"
## Coverage discipline: read the field, not a convenience sample
An ARE review's credibility rests on the reader's belief that you read **everything that matters** — and ARE referees are often the very authors whose work is being weighed, so gaps are noticed. Build coverage systematically rather than from memory:
1. **Seed set.** Start from the pitch's key references and the field's canonical pieces.