Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 34 No. 4 Fall 2020

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Front Matter (pp. 1-6)

Symposium: How Much Income and Wealth Inequality?

The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

(pp. 3-26)

Business Incomes at the Top

Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick

(pp. 27-51)

Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies

Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux

(pp. 52-78)

Symposium: Economics and Epidemiology

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease

Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

(pp. 79-104)

Epidemiology's Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics

Eleanor J. Murray

(pp. 105-20)

Articles

A 30-Year Perspective on Property Derivatives: What Can Be Done to Tame Property Price Risk?

Frank J. Fabozzi, Robert J. Shiller and Radu S. Tunaru

(pp. 121-45)

Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference

Amy Finkelstein and Nathaniel Hendren

(pp. 146-67)

The Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions for Young Adults and Their Sources

Till von Wachter

(pp. 168-94)

Features

Retrospectives: Regulating Banks versus Managing Liquidity: Jeremy Bentham and Henry Thornton in 1802

John Berdell and Thomas Mondschean

(pp. 195-209)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Timothy Taylor

(pp. 210-17)