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Cultural Economics
Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?
by David S. Landes
(pp. 3–22)
Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?
by Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales
(pp. 23–48)
Religion and Economy
by Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro
(pp. 49–72)
The Role of Family in Family Firms
by Marianne Bertrand and Antoinette Schoar
(pp. 73–96)
Red and Blue States
Purple America
by Stephen Ansolabehere, Jonathan Rodden, and James M. Snyder Jr.
(pp. 97–118)
Myths and Realities of American Political Geography
by Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward
(pp. 119–144)
Happiness Economics
Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
by Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger
(pp. 3–24)
Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
by Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
(pp. 25–46)
Poverty
Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations
by Hilary W. Hoynes, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens
(pp. 47–68)
Poor People in Rich Nations: The United States in Comparative Perspective
by Timothy Smeeding
(pp. 69–90)
Public Sector Absenteeism
Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries
by Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey Hammer, Michael Kremer, Karthik Muralidharan, and F. Halsey Rogers
(pp. 91–116)
Addressing Absence
by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
(pp. 117–132)
Cognition, Brain Science and Economics
The Vulcanization of the Human Brain: A Neural Perspective on Interactions Between Cognition and Emotion
by Jonathan D. Cohen
(pp. 3–24)
Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making
by Shane Frederick
(pp. 25–42)
Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes
by Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran
(pp. 43–66)
Housing Markets
Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals and Misperceptions
by Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai
(pp. 67–92)
The American Mortgage in Historical and International Context
by Richard K. Green and Susan M. Wachter
(pp. 93–114)
Stock Options Now and Then
Accounting for Stock Options
by Jeremy Bulow and John B. Shoven
(pp. 115–134)
The Original Management Incentive Schemes
by Richard T. Holden
(pp. 135–144)
Institutions
Eight Questions about Corruption
by Jakob Svensson
(pp. 19–42)
Political Selection
by Timothy Besley
(pp. 43–60)
Law, Endowments and Property Rights
by Ross Levine
(pp. 61–88)
The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty
by Barry R. Weingast
(pp. 89–108)
The Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: On Morals and Why They Matter to a Liberal Society of Free People and Free Markets
by Jerry Evensky
(pp. 109–130)
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist
by Nava Ashraf, Colin F. Camerer, and George Loewenstein
(pp. 131–145)
Social Security Reform
Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions about the Social Security Trust Fund
by James R. Hines Jr. and Timothy Taylor
(pp. 3–9)
Saving Social Security
by Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
(pp. 11–32)
Structural Reform of Social Security
by Martin Feldstein
(pp. 33–55)
Intellectual Property Rights
Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach
by Richard A. Posner
(pp. 57–73)
Probabilistic Patents
by Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro
(pp. 75–98)
The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond
by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
(pp. 99–120)
Copying and Copyright
by Hal R. Varian
(pp. 121–138)
Sociology and Economics
What is Economic Sociology and Should any Economists Care?
by Robert Gibbons
(pp. 3–7)
Identity and the Economics of Organizations
by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton
(pp. 9–32)
The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes
by Mark Granovetter
(pp. 33–50)
Ecologies of Organizations: Diversity and Identity
by Michael T. Hannan
(pp. 51–70)
A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes
by Barbara F. Reskin and Denise D. Bielby
(pp. 71–86)
The Economy of Russia
Russian Retrospectives on Reforms from Yeltsin to Putin
by Padma Desai
(pp. 87–106)
Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
by Elizabeth Brainerd and David M. Cutler
(pp. 107–130)
The Role of Oligarchs in Russian Capitalism
by Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky
(pp. 131–150)
A Normal Country: Russia After Communism
by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman
(pp. 151–174)
The Transformation of Europe
The Economic Future of Europe
by Olivier Blanchard
(pp. 3–26)
The European Union: A Politically Incorrect View
by Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti
(pp. 27–48)
Why are European Countries Diverging in their Unemployment Experience?
by Gilles Saint-Paul
(pp. 49–68)
Fortieth Anniversary of CAPM
The Capital Asset Pricing Model
by André F. Perold
(pp. 3–24)
The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence
by Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
(pp. 25–46)
Middle East
Economic Policy and Prospects in Iraq
by Christopher Foote, William Block, Keith Crane, and Simon Gray
(pp. 47–70)
Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation
by Timur Kuran
(pp. 71–90)
Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950
by Tarik M. Yousef
(pp. 91–115)
Media, Education and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World
by Matthew A. Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro
(pp. 117–133)
Consumer Confidence
Consumer Confidence and Consumer Spending
by Sydney C. Ludvigson
(pp. 29–50)
How Should We Measure Consumer Confidence?
by Jeff Dominitz and Charles F. Manski
(pp. 51–66)
Latin America's Growth Record