Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 12 No. 2 Spring 1998

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Abstract

Author

Front Matter (pp. i-vi)

Lecture: Discrimination in Product, Credit and Labor Markets

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The Private Uses of Public Interests: Incentives and Institutions

by Joseph Stiglitz

(pp. 3-22)

Symposium: Discrimination in Product, Credit and Labor Markets

Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets

by John Yinger

(pp. 23-40)

Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending

by Helen F. Ladd

(pp. 41-62)

Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender

by William A. Darity and Patrick L. Mason

(pp. 63-90)

What Has Economics to Say about Racial Discrimination?

by Kenneth J. Arrow

(pp. 91-100)

Detecting Discrimination

by James J. Heckman

(pp. 101-116)

Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Beyond Market Interactions

by Glenn C. Loury

(pp. 117-126)

Symposium: Urban Agglomeration

Urban Diversity and Economic Growth

by John M. Quigley

(pp. 127-138)

Are Cities Dying?

by Edward L. Glaeser

(pp. 139-160)

Space: The Final Frontier

by Paul Krugman

(pp. 161-174)

Articles

The Past, Present, and Future of Macroeconomic Forecasting

by Francis X. Diebold

(pp. 175-192)

Forging Ahead and Falling Behind: The Rise and Relative Decline of the First Industrial Nation

by Nicholas Crafts

(pp. 193-210)

Who Is a Member of the AEA?

by John J. Siegfried

(pp. 211-222)

Real and Money Wage Rates

by John T. Dunlop

(pp. 223-234)

Features

Recommendations for Further Reading (pp. 235-242)

Correspondence (pp. 243-247)

Notes (pp. 249-252)