Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 4 No. 1 Winter 1990

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Abstract

Author

Front Matter (pp. i-vi)

Symposium: New Institutions for Developing Country Debt

Symposium on New Institutions for Developing Country Debt

by Kenneth Rogoff

(pp. 3-6)

Organizing Debt Relief: The Need for a New Institution

by Peter B. Kenen

(pp. 7-18)

A Strategy for Efficient Debt Reduction

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

(pp. 19-29)

Cleaning Up Third World Debt without Getting Taken to the Cleaners

by Jeremy Bulow and Kenneth Rogoff

(pp. 31-42)

Debt Relief and the International Enforcement of Loan Contracts

by Jonathan Eaton

(pp. 43-56)

Symposium: Welfare and Workfare

The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America

by Gary Burtless

(pp. 57-78)

Work and Welfare: Lessons on Employment Programs

by Judith M. Gueron

(pp. 79-98)

Articles

Micro-to-Macro Simulation: A Primer with a Labor Market Example

by Barbara R. Bergmann

(pp. 99-116)

Currency Fluctuations in the Post-Bretton Woods Era

by Richard Meese

(pp. 117-134)

The Benefits of Asymmetric Markets

by Tibor Scitovsky

(pp. 135-148)

Great and Almost-Great Magnitudes in Economics

by Julian L. Simon

(pp. 149-156)

Optimal Taxation and Optimal Tax Systems

by Joel Slemrod

(pp. 157-178)

Features

Puzzles: Slot Machines, Zomepirac, Squash, and More

by Barry Nalebuff

(pp. 179-187)

Recommendations for Further Reading

by Bernard Saffran

(pp. 189-192)

Anomalies: Saving, Fungibility, and Mental Accounts

by Richard H. Thaler

(pp. 193-205)

Correspondence

by William Walter Brown

(pp. 207-211)

Notes (pp. 213-220)