It must be nearly Christmas – another offer of free access to important articles has turned up in my email.

This time it's Economic Inquiry and they're offering articles by past Nobel Prize winners. It's one of the journals which, while scholarly, keeps an eye on non-technical readers, which is a terrific discipline on the academics submitting articles. I particularly like the abstract for the Krugman article:

This article extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar
setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should
interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel
at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken
in transit will appear less to an observer traveling with the goods
than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic
theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved.

There are quite a few available:

2008 Winner: Paul Krugman
THE THEORY OF INTERSTELLAR TRADE
PAUL KRUGMAN

2004 Winner: Edward C. Prescott
ADAPTIVE DECISION RULES FOR MACROECONOMIC PLANNING
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT

2002 Winner: Vernon L. Smith
BEHAVIORAL FOUNDATIONS OF RECIPROCITY: EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
ELIZABETH HOFFMAN, KEVIN A. MCCABE, VERNON L. SMITH

2000 Winner: James J. Heckman
AN ASSESSMENT OF CAUSAL INFERENCE IN SMOKING INITIATION RESEARCH AND A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
JAMES J. HECKMAN, FREDRICK FLYER, COLLEEN LOUGHLIN

1999 Winner: Robert A. Mundell
SHOULD THE UNITED STATES DEVALUE THE DOLLAR?
ROBERT A. MUNDELL

1997 Winner: Robert C. Merton
A GOLDEN GOLDEN-RULE FOR WELFARE-MAXIMIZATION IN AN ECONOMY WITH A VARYING POPULATION GROWTH RATE
ROBERT C. MERTON

1995 Winner: Robert E. Lucas Jr.
EQUILIBRIUM IN A PURE CURRENCY ECONOMY
ROBERT E. LUCAS JR.

1993 Winner: Douglass C. North
INSTITUTIONS, TRANSACTION COSTS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
DOUGLASS C. NORTH