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Journal of Economic Perspectives: Vol. 21 No. 3 (Summer 2007)

Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
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Symposia: Fifty Years of the Council of Economic Advisers

A Successful Accident: Recollections and Speculations about the CEA (pp. 3-21)
Herbert Stein
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The CEA: An Inside Voice for Mainstream Economics (pp. 23-39)
Charles L. Schultze
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Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946 (pp. 41-53)
J. Bradford De Long
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Symposia: Social security

Different Approaches for Dealing with Social Security (pp. 55-66)
Edward M. Gramlich
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Proposals to Restructure Social Security (pp. 67-88)
Peter A. Diamond
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Articles

Econometrics and Presidential Elections (pp. 89-102)
Ray C. Fair
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Cheap Talk (pp. 103-118)
Joseph Farrell and Matthew Rabin
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Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts (pp. 119-134)
W. Kip Viscusi
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Market Microstructure and Intermediation (pp. 135-152)
Daniel F. Spulber
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Trends in Multi-authored Papers in Economics (pp. 153-158)
John Hudson
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Features

Policy Watch: Medicare (pp. 159-167)
Joseph P. Newhouse
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Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey (pp. 169-180)
Anne E. Polivka
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 181-188)
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Correspondence (pp. 189-198)
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Notes (pp. 199-202)
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Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
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Symposia: Distribution of World Income

Divergence, Big Time (pp. 3-17)
Lant Pritchett
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On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution (pp. 19-36)
Charles I. Jones
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Symposia: European Unemployment

Labor Market Rigidities: At the Root of Unemployment in Europe (pp. 37-54)
Horst Siebert
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Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities: Europe versus North America (pp. 55-74)
Stephen Nickell
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Symposia: Electronic Journals in Economics

The Future Information Infrastructure in Economics (pp. 75-94)
William L. Goffe and Robert P. Parks
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The AEA's Electronic Publishing Plans: A Progress Report (pp. 95-104)
Hal R. Varian
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Articles

Bridging the Gap between the Public's and Economists' Views of the Economy (pp. 105-118)
Robert J. Blendon
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Restructuring, Competition and Regulatory Reform in the U.S. Electricity Sector (pp. 119-138)
Paul L. Joskow
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FDICIA after Five Years (pp. 139-158)
George J. Benston and George G. Kaufman
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A Nobel Prize for Game Theorists: The Contributions of Harsanyi, Nash and Selten (pp. 159-174)
Faruk Gul
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Features

Policy Watch: The Family and Medical Leave Act (pp. 175-186)
Christopher J. Ruhm
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Correspondence & Response [Econometrics and Presidential Elections]. (pp. 195-198)
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 187-194)
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Notes (pp. 199-202)
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Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
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Symposia: Endangered Species Act

Economics of the Endangered Species Act (pp. 3-20)
Gardner M. Brown and Jason F. Shogren
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Conflicts and Choices in Biodiversity Preservation (pp. 21-34)
Andrew Metrick and Martin L. Weitzman
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Takings, Compensation and Endangered Species Protection on Private Lands (pp. 35-52)
Robert Innes, Stephen Polasky and John Tschirhart
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Symposia: SO2 Trading

An Interim Evaluation of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Trading (pp. 53-68)
Richard Schmalensee, Paul L. Joskow, A. Denny Ellerman, Juan Pablo Montero and Elizabeth M. Bailey
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What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading (pp. 69-88)
Robert N. Stavins
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Symposia: Legacy of Deregulation

U.S. Industry Adjustment to Economic Deregulation (pp. 89-110)
Clifford Winston
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Deregulation and the Labor Market (pp. 111-130)
James Peoples
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Articles

Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Household Wealth (pp. 131-150)
Edward N. Wolff
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Learning from the Behavior of Others: Conformity, Fads, and Informational Cascades (pp. 151-170)
Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch
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Foreign Students in U.S. Doctoral Programs (pp. 171-182)
Nahid Aslanbeigui and Veronica Montecinos
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Features

Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 183-190)
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Correspondence (pp. 191-194)
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Notes (pp. 195-198)
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Front Matter (pp. 1-2)
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Symposia: Slow Growth in Africa

Why Has Africa Grown Slowly? (pp. 3-22)
Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning
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Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa (pp. 23-40)
Angus Deaton
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Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 41-66)
Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O'Connell
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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa (pp. 67-88)
T. Paul Schultz
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Africa's Economic Performance: Limitations of the Current Consensus (pp. 89-114)
John Sender
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Articles

The Labor Market for New Ph.D. Economists (pp. 115-134)
John J. Siegfried and Wendy A. Stock
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The Changing Distributions of New Ph.D. Economists and Their Employment: Implications for the Future (pp. 135-138)
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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It's Better Being an Economist (But Don't Tell Anyone). (pp. 139-145)
Richard B. Freeman
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The Link from Graduate Education in Economics to the Labor Market (pp. 147-151)
W. Lee Hansen
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Implications of the Labor Market for Graduate Education in Economics (pp. 153-156)
Anne O. Krueger
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The Social Experiment Market (pp. 157-172)
David Greenberg, Mark Shroder and Matthew Onstott
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The Economics of Casino Gambling (pp. 173-192)
William R. Eadington
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Features

Policy Watch: The Marriage Penalty (pp. 193-204)
James Alm, Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Leslie A. Whittington
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Data Watch: Research Data in the Economics of Education (pp. 205-216)
Thomas S. Dee, William N. Evans and Sheila E. Murray
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Classroom Games: Rent-Seeking and the Inefficiency of Non-market Allocations (pp. 217-226)
Jacob K. Goeree and Charles A. Holt
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 227-234)
David Felix
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Correspondence (pp. 235-242)
Frederick Guy and
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Preliminary Announcement of the Program (pp. 243-274)
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Notes (pp. 275-278)
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Front Matter (pp. 1-2)
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Symposia: Fiscal Policy

The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States (pp. 3-19)
Alberto Alesina
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Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy (pp. 21-36)
John B. Taylor
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The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers (pp. 37-56)
Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel R. Feenberg
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Should America Save for Its Old Age? Fiscal Policy, Population Aging, and National Saving (pp. 57-74)
Douglas W. Elmendorf and Louise M. Sheiner
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Symposia: Sports Economics

The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory (pp. 75-94)
Lawrence M. Kahn
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Sports Economics

The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities (pp. 95-114)
John J. Siegfried and Andrew Zimbalist
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions (pp. 115-136)
Charles F. Manski
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Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms (pp. 137-158)
Elinor Ostrom
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Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity (pp. 159-181)
Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter
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Vickrey Auctions in Practice: From Nineteenth-Century Philately to Twenty-First-Century E-Commerce (pp. 183-192)
David Lucking-Reiley
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In Honor of Kevin M. Murphy: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal (pp. 193-204)
Finis Welch
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Features

The Tyranny of Budget Forecasts (pp. 205-215)
J. D. Foster and James C. Miller
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Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World (pp. 217-232)
Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Stanley L. Engerman
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 233-240)
Bernard Saffran
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Correction: Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 241-242)
Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O'Connell
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Notes (pp. 243-246)
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Front Matter (pp. 1-2)
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Symposia: Consumption Behaviour

The Life-Cycle Model of Consumption and Saving (pp. 3-22)
Martin Browning and Thomas F. Crossley
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A Theory of the Consumption Function, with and without Liquidity Constraints (pp. 23-45)
Christopher D. Carroll
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The Hyberbolic Consumption Model: Calibration, Simulation, and Empirical Evaluation (pp. 47-68)
George-Marios Angeletos
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Symposia: Trade, Labor and the Environment

The WTO as a Mechanism for Securing Market Access Property Rights: Implications for Global Labor and Environmental Issues (pp. 69-88)
Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger
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Labor Standards: Where Do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda? (pp. 89-112)
Drusilla K. Brown
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Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide (pp. 113-130)
Daniel C. Esty
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Articles

Wheat from Chaff: Meta-analysis as Quantitative Literature Review (pp. 131-150)
T. D. Stanley
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International Productivity Comparisons Built from the Firm Level (pp. 151-172)
Martin Neil Baily and Robert M. Solow
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Institutional Economics: Then and Now (pp. 173-194)
Malcolm Rutherford
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Economic Education in U.S. High Schools (pp. 195-210)
William B. Walstad
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An Interview with William J. Baumol (pp. 211-231)
Alan B. Krueger
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Features

The Early Development of Intellectual Property Institutions in the United States (pp. 233-246)
B. Zorina Khan and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 247-256)
Bernard Saffran
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Comments (pp. 257-260)
Robert J. Gordon, Thomas R. Michl and
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Notes (pp. 261-264)
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Symposia: Intergenerational Mobility

The Inheritance of Inequality (pp. 3-30)
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
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Intergenerational Inequality: A Sociological Perspective (pp. 31-44)
Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe
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Economic Interpretations of Intergenerational Correlations (pp. 45-58)
Nathan D. Grawe and Casey B. Mulligan
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Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility (pp. 59-66)
Gary Solon
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Symposia: India

Economic Reforms in India Since 1991: Has Gradualism Worked? (pp. 67-88)
Montek S. Ahluwalia
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Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind? (pp. 89-108)
Gaurav Datt and Martin Ravallion
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Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link (pp. 109-130)
Tirthankar Roy
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Articles

Perspectives on the U.S. Current Account Deficit and Sustainability (pp. 131-152)
Catherine L. Mann
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The Central Role of Entrepreneurs in Transition Economies (pp. 153-170)
John McMillan and Christopher Woodruff
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The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract (pp. 171-195)
Oliver E. Williamson
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Features

Retrospectives: The Origins of Neoclassical Microeconomics (pp. 197-215)
Robert B. Ekelund Jr and Robert F. Hébert
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 217-224)
Bernard Saffran
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Comments (pp. 225-229)
Robert S. Goldfarb, H. O. Stekler, David Neumark, William Wascher and T. D. Stanley
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Notes (pp. 231-235)
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Symposia: Global Poverty Reduction

Halving Global Poverty (pp. 3-22)
Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
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Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? (pp. 23-48)
William Easterly
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Symposia: Stock Options

The Trouble with Stock Options (pp. 49-70)
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem (pp. 71-92)
Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
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Articles

Why Have Americans Become More Obese? (pp. 93-118)
David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro
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The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy (pp. 119-140)
Robert A. Moffitt
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The Economics and Law of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (pp. 141-157)
Kaushik Basu
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In Honor of Matthew Rabin: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal (pp. 159-176)
Colin Camerer and Richard H. Thaler
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Features

Retrospectives: Who Invented Instrumental Variable Regression? (pp. 177-194)
James H. Stock and Francesco Trebbi
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 195-202)
Bernard Saffran
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Comments (pp. 203-206)
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Notes (pp. 207-213)
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Symposia: Fortieth Anniversary of CAPM

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (pp. 3-24)
André F. Perold
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence (pp. 25-46)
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
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Symposia: Middle East

Economic Policy and Prospects in Iraq (pp. 47-70)
Christopher Foote, William Block, Keith Crane and Simon Gray
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Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation (pp. 71-90)
Timur Kuran
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Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950 (pp. 91-115)
Tarik M. Yousef
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Media, Education and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World (pp. 117-133)
Matthew A. Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
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Articles

Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization (pp. 135-146)
Paul A. Samuelson
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Are We Consuming Too Much? (pp. 147-172)
Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence Goulder, Gretchen Daily, Paul Ehrlich, Geoffrey Heal, Simon Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Stephen Schneider, David Starrett and Brian Walker
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Should We Fear Derivatives? (pp. 173-192)
René M. Stulz
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Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder? (pp. 193-214)
Donna K. Ginther and Shulamit Kahn
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Features

Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 215-222)
Bernard Saffran
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Comments (pp. 223-226)
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Notes (pp. 227-231)
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Lecture

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government—What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity (pp. 3-18)
Katharine G. Abraham
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Symposia: Institutions

Eight Questions about Corruption (pp. 19-42)
Jakob Svensson
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Political Selection (pp. 43-60)
Timothy Besley
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Law, Endowments and Property Rights (pp. 61-88)
Ross Levine
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The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty (pp. 89-108)
Barry R. Weingast
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Symposia: The Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: On Morals and Why They Matter to a Liberal Society of Free People and Free Markets (pp. 109-130)
Jerry Evensky
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist (pp. 131-145)
Nava Ashraf, Colin F. Camerer and George Loewenstein
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Articles

Affirmative Action and Its Mythology (pp. 147-162)
Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Glenn C. Loury
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Dividend Taxation and Corporate Governance (pp. 163-180)
Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung
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Steven D. Levitt: 2003 John Bates Clark Medalist (pp. 181-198)
James M. Poterba
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Features

History Lessons: The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the United States Since 1850 (pp. 199-215)
Joseph P. Ferrie
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Policy Watch: Reform of the U.S. Postal Service (pp. 217-232)
R. Richard Geddes
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Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 233-240)
Timothy Taylor
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Comments (pp. 241-245)
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Notes (pp. 247-250)
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Symposia: Organ Transplants

Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations (pp. 3-24)
Gary S. Becker and Julio Jorge Elías
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Producing Organ Donors (pp. 25-36)
David H. Howard
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Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets (pp. 37-58)
Alvin E. Roth
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Symposia: The Adequacy of Retirement Saving

Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement? (pp. 59-80)
Jonathan Skinner
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Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior (pp. 81-104)
Shlomo Benartzi and Richard Thaler
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Articles

Firms in International Trade (pp. 105-130)
Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott
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Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization (pp. 131-154)
David Hummels
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Does Antitrust Need to be Modernized? (pp. 155-176)
Dennis W. Carlton
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The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth (pp. 177-198)
Emek Basker
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Natural Disasters, Economic Development, and Humanitarian Aid (pp. 199-222)
David Strömberg
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Human Capital and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers (pp. 223-238)
Efraim Benmelech and Claude Berrebi
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Features

Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 239-246)
Timothy Taylor
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