Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 25 No. 2 Spring 2011

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Title

Abstract

Author

Front Matter (pp. 1-2)

Symposium: Constraining Healthcare Costs

The (Paper)Work of Medicine: Understanding International Medical Costs

David M. Cutler and Dan P. Ly

(pp. 3-25)

The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research

Amitabh Chandra, Anupam B. Jena and Jonathan S. Skinner

(pp. 27-46)

Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Spending Growth

Katherine Baicker and Dana Goldman

(pp. 47-68)

Reforming Payments to Healthcare Providers: The Key to Slowing Healthcare Cost Growth While Improving Quality?

Mark McClellan

(pp. 69-92)

Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform

Daniel P. Kessler

(pp. 93-110)

Articles

Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing

Susan Houseman, Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann and Benjamin Mandel

(pp. 111-32)

The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health

Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin

(pp. 133-56)

The Market for Charitable Giving

John A. List

(pp. 157-80)

Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm: What Have We Learned over the Past 25 Years?

Philippe Aghion and Richard Holden

(pp. 181-97)

Features

Retrospectives: Lionel W. McKenzie and the Proof of the Existence of a Competitive Equilibrium

E. Roy Weintraub

(pp. 199-215)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Timothy Taylor

(pp. 217-24)

Notes (pp. 225-226)

Considerations for Those Proposing Topics and Papers for JEP (pp. 227-230)