Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Issues

The North American Economy

Winter 2001

A Symposium on the North American Economy

by J. Bradford De Long

(pp. 81–83)

Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth

by Nora Lustig

(pp. 85–106)

Canada: Life beyond the Looking Glass

by John F. Helliwell

(pp. 107–124)

The Impact of NAFTA on the United States

by Mary E. Burfisher, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder

(pp. 125–144)

Computers and Productivity

Fall 2000

The Resurgence of Growth in the Late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?

by Stephen D. Oliner and Daniel E. Sichel

(pp. 3–22)

Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin M. Hitt

(pp. 23–48)

Does the "New Economy" Measure Up to the Great Inventions of the Past?

by Robert J. Gordon

(pp. 49–74)

Women and the Labor Market

Fall 2000

Gender Differences in Pay

by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn

(pp. 75–99)

From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

by Dora L. Costa

(pp. 101–122)

For Love or Money--Or Both?

by Nancy Folbre and Julie A. Nelson

(pp. 123–140)

Women's Work and Economic Development

by Kristin Mammen and Christina Paxson

(pp. 141–164)

Fiscal Policy

Summer 2000

The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States

by Alberto Alesina

(pp. 3–19)

Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy

by John B. Taylor

(pp. 21–36)

The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers

by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel R. Feenberg

(pp. 37–56)

Should America Save for Its Old Age? Fiscal Policy, Population Aging, and National Saving

by Douglas W. Elmendorf and Louise M. Sheiner

(pp. 57–74)

Sports Economics

Summer 2000

The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory

by Lawrence M. Kahn

(pp. 75–94)

The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities

by John J. Siegfried and Andrew Zimbalist

(pp. 95–114)

The Future of Medicare

Spring 2000

Medicare Reform: Fundamental Problems, Incremental Steps

by Mark McClellan

(pp. 21–44)

Walking the Tightrope on Medicare Reform

by David M. Cutler

(pp. 45–56)

Medicare Reform: The Larger Picture

by Victor R. Fuchs

(pp. 57–70)

Health Care for the Aging Baby Boom: Lessons from Abroad

by Uwe E. Reinhardt

(pp. 71–83)

Making the Transition to Prepaid Medicare

by Thomas R. Saving

(pp. 85–98)

Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy

Winter 2000

The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800

by Richard A. Easterlin

(pp. 7–26)

What the Change of System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean

by Jànos Kornai

(pp. 27–42)

Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking

by William E. Kovacic and Carl Shapiro

(pp. 43–60)

American Government Finance in the Long Run: 1790 to 1990

by John Joseph Wallis

(pp. 61–82)

The Triumph of Monetarism?

by J. Bradford De Long

(pp. 83–94)

The Neoclassical Advent: American Economics at the Dawn of the 20th Century

by Joseph Persky

(pp. 95–108)

Forecasts for the Future of Economics

Winter 2000

Teaching Economics in the 21st Century

by William E. Becker

(pp. 109–119)

New Millennium Economics: How Did It Get This Way, and What Way Is It?

by David Colander

(pp. 121–132)

From Homo Economicus to Homo Sapiens

by Richard H. Thaler

(pp. 133–141)

The Future of Microeconomic Theory

by Beth Allen

(pp. 143–150)

Toward a Macroeconomics of the Medium Run

by Robert M. Solow

(pp. 151–158)

Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century

by Robert E. Lucas

(pp. 159–168)

Forecasts for the Future of the Economy

Winter 2000

Can America Stay on Top?

by Paul Krugman

(pp. 169–175)

How Far Will International Economic Integration Go?

by Dani Rodrik

(pp. 177–186)

Anti-Poverty Policy for Families in the Next Century: From Welfare to Work--and Worries

by David T. Ellwood

(pp. 187–198)

Environmental Problems and Policy: 2000-2050

by Paul R. Portney

(pp. 199–206)

Worker Protection Policies in the New Century

by Bernard E. Anderson

(pp. 207–214)

Global Financial Instability

Fall 1999

Global Financial Instability: Framework, Events, Issues

by Frederic S. Mishkin

(pp. 3–20)

International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability

by Kenneth Rogoff

(pp. 21–42)

Restoring Banking Stability: Beyond Supervised Capital Requirements

by Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

(pp. 43–64)

How Effective Are Capital Controls?

by Sebastian Edwards

(pp. 65–84)

Slow Growth in Africa

Summer 1999

Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?

by Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning

(pp. 3–22)

Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa

by Angus Deaton

(pp. 23–40)

Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O'Connell

(pp. 41–66)

Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

by T. Paul Schultz

(pp. 67–88)

Africa's Economic Performance: Limitations of the Current Consensus

by John Sender

(pp. 89–114)

Business Cycles

Spring 1999

Introduction to the Symposium on Business Cycles

by J. Bradford De Long

(pp. 19–22)

Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations

by Christina D. Romer

(pp. 23–44)

Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

by Susanto Basu and Alan M. Taylor

(pp. 45–68)

Theory and History behind Business Cycles: Are the 1990s the Onset of a Golden Age?

by Victor Zarnowitz

(pp. 69–90)

Economists as Expert Witnesses

Spring 1999

The Law and Economics of the Economic Expert Witness

by Richard A. Posner

(pp. 91–99)

The Economist in Tort Litigation

by Robert Thornton and John Ward

(pp. 101–112)

Going for the Gold: Economists as Expert Witnesses

by Michael J. Mandel

(pp. 113–120)

The Economics of Higher Education

Winter 1999

The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium

by Charles T. Clotfelter

(pp. 3–12)

Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education

by Gordon C. Winston

(pp. 13–36)

The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

(pp. 37–62)

The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work

by Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Elena Rouse

(pp. 63–84)

Tenure Issues in Higher Education

by Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro

(pp. 85–98)

Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg

(pp. 99–116)

Globalization in Perspective

Fall 1998

Symposium on Globalization in Perspective: An Introduction

by Dani Rodrik

(pp. 3–8)

The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?

by Maurice Obstfeld

(pp. 9–30)

Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy

by Robert C. Feenstra

(pp. 31–50)

Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past

by Jeffrey G. Williamson

(pp. 51–72)

The Firm and its Boundaries

Fall 1998

The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited

by Bengt Holmstrom and John Roberts

(pp. 73–94)

Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organizations

by Patrick Bolton and David S. Scharfstein

(pp. 95–114)

Incentives in Organizations

by Robert Gibbons

(pp. 115–132)

State versus Private Ownership

by Andrei Shleifer

(pp. 133–150)

Endangered Species Act

Summer 1998

Economics of the Endangered Species Act

by Gardner M. Brown and Jason F. Shogren

(pp. 3–20)

Conflicts and Choices in Biodiversity Preservation

by Andrew Metrick and Martin L. Weitzman

(pp. 21–34)

Takings, Compensation and Endangered Species Protection on Private Lands

by Robert Innes, Stephen Polasky, and John Tschirhart

(pp. 35–52)

SO2 Trading

Summer 1998

An Interim Evaluation of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Trading

by Richard Schmalensee, Paul L. Joskow, A. Denny Ellerman, Juan Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey

(pp. 53–68)

What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading

by Robert N. Stavins

(pp. 69–88)

Legacy of Deregulation

Summer 1998

U.S. Industry Adjustment to Economic Deregulation

by Clifford Winston

(pp. 89–110)

Deregulation and the Labor Market

by James Peoples

(pp. 111–130)

Discrimination in Product, Credit and Labor Markets

Spring 1998

Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets

by John Yinger

(pp. 23–40)

Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending

by Helen F. Ladd

(pp. 41–62)

Evidence on Discrimination in Employment: Codes of Color, Codes of Gender

by William A. Darity and Patrick L. Mason

(pp. 63–90)

What Has Economics to Say about Racial Discrimination?

by Kenneth J. Arrow

(pp. 91–100)

Detecting Discrimination

by James J. Heckman

(pp. 101–116)

Discrimination in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Beyond Market Interactions

by Glenn C. Loury

(pp. 117–126)

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