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Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall 2008


Symposium: Health Care



Are We Finally Winning the War on Cancer? (pp. 3-26)
David M. Cutler

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? (pp. 27-50)
Alan M. Garber and Jonathan Skinner

Incremental Universalism for the United States: The States Move First? (pp. 51-68)
Jonathan Gruber

Providing Prescription Drug Coverage to the Elderly: America's Experiment with Medicare Part D (pp. 69-92)
Mark Duggan, Patrick Healy and Fiona Scott Morton

Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Healthcare System (pp. 93-113)
Randall D. Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor and Mark E. Votruba

Articles



Overlapping Generations: The First Jubilee (pp. 115-34)
Philippe Weil

The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (pp. 135-54)
Jacob Vigdor

Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels (pp. 155-80)
Steven J. Davis and James A. Kahn

Susan C. Athey: John Bates Clark Award Winner 2007 (pp. 181-98)
John Roberts

Features



Retrospectives: Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of "Student's" t (pp. 199-216)
Stephen T. Ziliak

Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 217-24)
Timothy Taylor

Comments (pp. 225-26)
Jerry H. Tempelman, Hendrik Bessembinder and William Maxwell

Notes (pp. 227-230)