Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 19 No. 2 Spring 2005

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Abstract

Author

Symposium: Social Security Reform

Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions about the Social Security Trust Fund

James R. Hines Jr. and Timothy Taylor

(pp. 3-9)

Saving Social Security

Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag

(pp. 11-32)

Structural Reform of Social Security

Martin Feldstein

(pp. 33-55)

Symposium: Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach

Richard A. Posner

(pp. 57-73)

Probabilistic Patents

Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro

(pp. 75-98)

The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

(pp. 99-120)

Copying and Copyright

Hal R. Varian

(pp. 121-138)

Articles

Lessons About Markets from the Internet

Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

(pp. 139-158)

Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire?

W. Scott Frame and Lawrence J. White

(pp. 159-184)

Direct Democracy Works

John G. Matsusaka

(pp. 185-206)

Features

Data Watch: Tort-uring the Data

Eric Helland, Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok

(pp. 207-220)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Timothy Taylor

(pp. 221-228)

Comments (pp. 229-230)

Notes (pp. 231-234)