Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 13 No. 1 Winter 1999

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Title

Abstract

Author

Front Matter (pp. 1-2)

Symposium: The Economics of Higher Education

The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium

Charles T. Clotfelter

(pp. 3-12)

Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education

Gordon C. Winston

(pp. 13-36)

The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

(pp. 37-62)

The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work

Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Elena Rouse

(pp. 63-84)

Tenure Issues in Higher Education

Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro

(pp. 85-98)

Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator

Ronald G. Ehrenberg

(pp. 99-116)

Articles

Will Aging Baby Boomers Bust the Federal Budget?

Ronald Lee and Jonathan Skinner

(pp. 117-140)

Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

Martin Gaynor and Deborah Haas-Wilson

(pp. 141-164)

Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize

Agnar Sandmo

(pp. 165-180)

Features

Policy Watch: Developments in Antitrust Economics

Jonathan B. Baker

(pp. 181-194)

Retrospectives: Say's Law

William J. Baumol

(pp. 195-204)

Classroom Games: A Market for Lemons

Charles A. Holt and Roger Sherman

(pp. 205-214)

Correspondence

Reinard Schuessler and Robert W. Dimand

(pp. 223-225)

Notes (pp. 227-232)