Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 3 No. 4 Fall 1989

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Author

Front Matter (pp. i-vi)

Symposium: Federal Deposit Insurance

Symposium on Federal Deposit Insurance for S&L Institutions

by Dwight M. Jaffee

(pp. 3-9)

The Reform of Federal Deposit Insurance

by Lawrence J. White

(pp. 11-29)

The High Cost of Incompletely Funding the FSLIC Shortage of Explicit Capital

by Edward J. Kane

(pp. 31-47)

Symposium: Seniority and Wages

Seniority, Wages and Productivity: A Turbulent Decade

by Robert M. Hutchens

(pp. 49-64)

Self-Enforcing Contracts, Shirking, and Life Cycle Incentives

by H. Lorne Carmichael

(pp. 65-83)

Symposium: Social Norms

Spontaneous Order

by Robert Sugden

(pp. 85-97)

Social Norms and Economic Theory

by Jon Elster

(pp. 99-117)

Articles

The Political Economy of Trade Policy

by Robert E. Baldwin

(pp. 119-135)

Research on the Economics Profession

by David Colander

(pp. 137-148)

On the Demise of the Long Run

by Roy B. Helfgott

(pp. 149-152)

Implications of the U.S. Current Account Deficit

by David H. Howard

(pp. 153-165)

An Accountant among Economists: Conservations with Sir John R. Hicks

by Arjo Klamer

(pp. 167-180)

Features

Anomalies: Intertemporal Choice

by George Loewenstein and Richard H. Thaler

(pp. 181-193)

Retrospectives: Adam Smith's Invisible Hands

by Joseph Persky

(pp. 195-201)

Recommendations for Further Reading

by Bernard Saffran

(pp. 203-206)

Correspondence

by Hans Werner Holub

(pp. 207-210)

Notes (pp. 211-216)

Index to Volume 3 (pp. 217-218)