Journal of Economic Perspectives

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

Issues

Measuring the CPI

Winter 1998

Consumer Prices, the Consumer Price Index, and the Cost of Living

by Michael J. Boskin, Ellen L. Dulberger, Robert J. Gordon, Zvi Griliches, and Dale W. Jorgenson

(pp. 3–26)

Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index

by Katharine G. Abraham, John S. Greenlees, and Brent R. Moulton

(pp. 27–36)

Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?

by Angus Deaton

(pp. 37–46)

Index Number Issues in the Consumer Price Index

by W. Erwin Diewert

(pp. 47–58)

Quality Change in Price Indexes

by William D. Nordhaus

(pp. 59–68)

The Consumer Price Index: A Research Agenda and Three Proposals

by Robert A. Pollak

(pp. 69–78)

Measuring Poverty

Winter 1998

Did We Lose the War on Poverty?

by Dale W. Jorgenson

(pp. 79–96)

Has Poverty Gotten Worse?

by Robert K. Triest

(pp. 97–114)

EMU

Fall 1997

EMU: Why and How It Might Happen

by Charles Wyplosz

(pp. 3–21)

The Political Economy of the European Economic and Monetary Union: Political Sources of an Economic Liability

by Martin Feldstein

(pp. 23–42)

Fiscal Federalism

Fall 1997

Rethinking Federalism

by Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

(pp. 43–64)

Devolution, Grants, and Fiscal Competition

by Richard A. Musgrave

(pp. 65–72)

Tiebout? Or Not Tiebout? The Market Metaphor and America's Devolution Debate

by John D. Donahue

(pp. 73–81)

Federalism as a Commitment to Reserving Market Incentives

by Yingyi Qian and Barry R. Weingast

(pp. 83–92)

Telecommunications Deregulation Around The World

Fall 1997

Meddling Through: Regulating Local Telephone Competition in the United States

by Robert G. Harris and C. Jeffrey Kraft

(pp. 93–112)

European Telecommunications Markets on the Verge of Full Liberalization

by Leonard Waverman and Esen Sirel

(pp. 113–126)

The Frontier of Telecommunications Deregulation: Small Countries Leading the Pack

by Pablo T. Spiller and Carlo G. Cardilli

(pp. 127–138)

Distribution of World Income

Summer 1997

Divergence, Big Time

by Lant Pritchett

(pp. 3–17)

On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution

by Charles I. Jones

(pp. 19–36)

European Unemployment

Summer 1997

Labor Market Rigidities: At the Root of Unemployment in Europe

by Horst Siebert

(pp. 37–54)

Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities: Europe versus North America

by Stephen Nickell

(pp. 55–74)

Electronic Journals in Economics

Summer 1997

The Future Information Infrastructure in Economics

by William L. Goffe and Robert P. Parks

(pp. 75–94)

The AEA's Electronic Publishing Plans: A Progress Report

by Hal R. Varian

(pp. 95–104)

Wage Inequality

Spring 1997

Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts

by Peter Gottschalk

(pp. 21–40)

Changes in Earnings Inequality: The Role of Demand Shifts

by George E. Johnson

(pp. 41–54)

Factor Proportions and Relative Wages: The Supply-Side Determinants of Wage Inequality

by Robert H. Topel

(pp. 55–74)

Institutional Changes and Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage?

by Nicole M. Fortin and Thomas Lemieux

(pp. 75–96)

The Natural Rate of Unemployment

Winter 1997

Reflections on the Natural Rate Hypothesis

by Joseph Stiglitz

(pp. 3–10)

The Time-Varying NAIRU and Its Implications for Economic Policy

by Robert J. Gordon

(pp. 11–32)

The NAIRU, Unemployment and Monetary Policy

by Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson

(pp. 33–49)

What We Know and Do Not Know about the Natural Rate of Unemployment

by Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence F. Katz

(pp. 51–72)

Theory Ahead of Language in the Economics of Unemployment

by Richard Rogerson

(pp. 73–92)

Time to Ditch the NAIRU

by James K. Galbraith

(pp. 93–108)

Primary and Secondary Education

Fall 1996

Symposium on Primary and Secondary Education

by Francine D. Blau

(pp. 3–8)

Measuring Investment in Education

by Eric A. Hanushek

(pp. 9–30)

School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina

by David Card and Alan B. Krueger

(pp. 31–50)

Are Efficiency and Equity in School Finance Substitutes or Complements?

by Caroline Minter Hoxby

(pp. 51–72)

Government Incentives for Saving

Fall 1996

Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives

by R. Glenn Hubbard and Jonathan S. Skinner

(pp. 73–90)

How Retirement Saving Programs Increase Saving

by James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise

(pp. 91–112)

The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving

by Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and John Karl Scholz

(pp. 113–138)

Fifty Years of the Council of Economic Advisers

Summer 1996

A Successful Accident: Recollections and Speculations about the CEA

by Herbert Stein

(pp. 3–21)

The CEA: An Inside Voice for Mainstream Economics

by Charles L. Schultze

(pp. 23–39)

Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946

by J. Bradford De Long

(pp. 41–53)

Social security

Summer 1996

Different Approaches for Dealing with Social Security

by Edward M. Gramlich

(pp. 55–66)

Proposals to Restructure Social Security

by Peter A. Diamond

(pp. 67–88)

Transition from Socialism

Spring 1996

How Far Has the Transition Progressed?

by Peter Murrell

(pp. 25–44)

Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies: The Early Experience

by Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos A. Vegh

(pp. 45–66)

Privatization Is Transition--Or Is It?

by Josef C. Brada

(pp. 67–86)

The Roles of the State and the Market in Establishing Property Rights

by Andrzej Rapaczynski

(pp. 87–103)

The Economics of Crime

Winter 1996

Help Wanted: Economists, Crime and Public Policy

by John J. DiIulio

(pp. 3–24)

Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do about It?

by Richard B. Freeman

(pp. 25–42)

Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses

by Isaac Ehrlich

(pp. 43–67)

Computational Experiments in Macroeconomics

Winter 1996

The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool

by Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott

(pp. 69–85)

The Empirical Foundations of Calibration

by Lars Peter Hansen and James J. Heckman

(pp. 87–104)

Macroeconomics and Methodology

by Christopher A. Sims

(pp. 105–120)

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Fall 1995

Symposium on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

by Frederic S. Mishkin

(pp. 3–10)

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Framework

by John B. Taylor

(pp. 11–26)

Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission

by Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler

(pp. 27–48)

Monetary, Credit and (Other) Transmission Processes: A Monetarist Perspective

by Allan H. Meltzer

(pp. 49–72)

The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates

by Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

(pp. 73–96)

Might Environmental Regulation Promote Growth?

Fall 1995

Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship

by Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde

(pp. 97–118)

Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?

by Karen Palmer, Wallace E. Oates, and Paul R. Portney

(pp. 119–132)

Income Inequality and Trade

Summer 1995

Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?

by Richard B. Freeman

(pp. 15–32)

Income Inequality and Trade: How to Think, What to Conclude

by J. David Richardson

(pp. 33–55)

How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers

by Adrian Wood

(pp. 57–80)

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