The Revue économique is a peer-reviewed academic journal published six times per year.

Founders included economic historian Fernand Braudel,[1] Albert Aftalion, who presided over the journal's board of directors ("comité de direction").

Until 1977, the journal was published by Armand Colin and since 1978 by the Presses de Sciences Po.

[3] Some of the authors who have published articles in the journal include:[4][5] John Abowd, Raymond Aron, Raymond Barre, Charles Bettelheim, François Bloch-Lainé, Roger Guesnerie, Francis Kramarz, Denis Kessler, Serge Christophe Kolm, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Wassily Léontief, Edmond Malinvaud, Pierre Mendès-France, Alfred Sauvy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Jacques Rueff, Jan Tinbergen, Jean Tirole.

Every two years, the Prize is awarded to an author who published in the journal, for the whole of his/her work.