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Use when revising an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) review for the ARE voice — authoritative, accessible to economists outside the subfield, signposted, with a strong opening, a forward-looking close, and a survey-style abstract. Polishes prose and structure; it does not design the framework (arecon-organizing-framework) or appraise evidence (arecon-evidence-standards).

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# ARE Writing Style — the Review Voice (arecon-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The framework and evidence appraisal are settled and it is time to make the review *read* well
- An economist from an adjacent field would get lost or bored in the current draft
- The opening buries the field's importance under machinery or throat-clearing
- The abstract reads like a paper abstract ("we find…") rather than a review abstract

## The ARE voice: authoritative + accessible + forward-looking

An ARE review is read by **economists outside the subfield** — smart, but not specialists here. The voice is a trusted, fair expert teaching the field to a colleague from another area. Four qualities define it:

1. **Authoritative.** Confident judgments about what is known, what is contested, and how good the evidence is. The reader wants your *appraisal*, not neutrality-as-evasion — but authority is earned by comprehensiveness and balance, never asserted.
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