This article presents the history of the academic journal L'Actualité économique since its beginnings in 1925. We investigate the evolution of the journal through its orientation, its authors and its content. To our knowledge, such an exercise has never been undertaken. Among other things, we note that the review has been managed by different groups through the years: Les licenciés de l'École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), then the École des Hautes Études Commerciales and finally, la Société canadienne de science économique . These different groups have influenced the content of the journal. On the authors' side, there was an increase, through the years, in the contributions of economists out of HEC at the expense of the professors from HEC and of the non-economists. Concerning the content, we observe, in particular, that certain subjects very popular when the journal started, like agriculture and natural resources, lost their popularity later on, and that there were three phases in terms of methodological approach: 1) the dominance of the "descriptive comments"; 2) the coexistence of the descriptive comments and the analytical articles and 3) the dominance of the analytical articles.