Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 28 No. 3 Summer 2014

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(pp. 1-2)

Symposium: Entrepreneurship

The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism

Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

(pp. 3-24)

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

(pp. 25-48)

Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber

(pp. 49-70)

Symposium: Classic Ideas in Development

The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective

Douglas Gollin

(pp. 71-88)

The Missing "Missing Middle"

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Benjamin A. Olken

(pp. 89-108)

Informality and Development

Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer

(pp. 109-26)

Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence

Aart Kraay and David McKenzie

(pp. 127-48)

Symposium: Academic Production

Page Limits on Economics Articles: Evidence from Two Journals

David Card and Stefano DellaVigna

(pp. 149-68)

What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics

Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez and Laszlo Sandor

(pp. 169-88)

The Effects of an Anti-Grade-Inflation Policy at Wellesley College

Kristin F. Butcher, Patrick J. McEwan and Akila Weerapana

(pp. 189-204)

The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-success of the Successful

John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder

(pp. 205-16)

Articles

The Economics of Fair Trade

Raluca Dragusanu, Daniele Giovannucci and Nathan Nunn

(pp. 217-36)

Evaluating Counterterrorism Spending

John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart

(pp. 237-48)

Features

Recommendations for Further Reading

Timothy Taylor

(pp. 249-56)