Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 19 No. 3 Summer 2005

Find articles in this issue

Title

Abstract

Author

Lecture

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government-What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity

by Katharine G. Abraham

(pp. 3-18)

Symposium: Institutions

Eight Questions about Corruption

by Jakob Svensson

(pp. 19-42)

Political Selection

by Timothy Besley

(pp. 43-60)

Law, Endowments and Property Rights

by Ross Levine

(pp. 61-88)

The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty

by Barry R. Weingast

(pp. 89-108)

Symposium: 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

by Jerry Evensky

(pp. 109-130)

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist

by Nava Ashraf, Colin F. Camerer and George Loewenstein

(pp. 131-145)

Articles

Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

by Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Glenn C. Loury

(pp. 147-162)

Dividend Taxation and Corporate Governance

by Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

(pp. 163-180)

Steven D. Levitt: 2003 John Bates Clark Medalist

by James M. Poterba

(pp. 181-198)

Features

History Lessons: The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the United States Since 1850

by Joseph P. Ferrie

(pp. 199-215)

Policy Watch: Reform of the U.S. Postal Service

by R. Richard Geddes

(pp. 217-232)

Recommendations for Further Reading

by Timothy Taylor

(pp. 233-240)

Comments

(pp. 241-245)

Notes

(pp. 247-250)