Tax Reform Act of 1986
Journal of Economic Perspectives
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Trade Liberalization and Development
The Case for Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries
by Rudiger Dornbusch
(pp. 69–85)
The Limits of Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries
by Dani Rodrik
(pp. 87–105)
Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Symposium on Economic Transition in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
by Peter Murrell
(pp. 3–9)
The Classical Soviet-Type Economy: Nature of the System and Implications for Reform
by Richard E. Ericson
(pp. 11–27)
The USSR before the Fall: How Poor and Why
by Abram Bergson
(pp. 29–44)
The Lessons of Limited Market-Oriented Reform
by Thomas A. Wolf
(pp. 45–58)
Can Neoclassical Economics Underpin the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies?
by Peter Murrell
(pp. 59–76)
Legality and Market Reform in Soviet-Type Economies
by John M. Litwack
(pp. 77–89)
The Process of Socialist Economic Transformation
by Stanley Fischer and Alan Gelb
(pp. 91–105)
Financial Control in the Transition from Classical Socialism to a Market Economy
by Ronald I. McKinnon
(pp. 107–122)
Microeconomic Issues in the Transition to a Market Economy
by Jan Svejnar
(pp. 123–138)
Credit Markets, Credibility, and Economic Transformation
by Guillermo A. Calvo and Jacob A. Frenkel
(pp. 139–148)
Agriculture and the Transition to the Market
by Karen Brooks, J. Luis Guasch, Avishay Braverman, and Csaba Csaki
(pp. 149–161)
The Economics of Liability
Symposium on the Economics of Liability
by Carl Shapiro
(pp. 3–10)
Economic Theories of Legal Liability
by Robert D. Cooter
(pp. 11–30)
The Modern Expansion of Tort Liability: Its Sources, Its Effects, and Its Reform
by George L. Priest
(pp. 31–50)
Liability for Medical Malpractice
by Patricia M. Danzon
(pp. 51–69)
Product and Occupational Liability
by W. Kip Viscusi
(pp. 71–91)
The Limitations of Legal Institutions for Addressing Environmental Risks
by Peter S. Menell
(pp. 93–113)
The Liability Insurance Market
by Ralph A. Winter
(pp. 115–136)
Organizations and Economics
Symposium on Organizations and Economics
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
(pp. 15–24)
Organizations and Markets
by Herbert A. Simon
(pp. 25–44)
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships
by David E. M. Sappington
(pp. 45–66)
Fallibility in Human Organizations and Political Systems
by Raaj Kumar Sah
(pp. 67–88)
Labor Economics and the Psychology of Organizations
by Edward P. Lazear
(pp. 89–110)
Intellectual Property
An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property
by Stanley M. Besen and Leo J. Raskind
(pp. 3–27)
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law
by Suzanne Scotchmer
(pp. 29–41)
A Patent System for Both Diffusion and Exclusion
by Janusz A. Ordover
(pp. 43–60)
Some Economics of Trade Secret Law
by David D. Friedman, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner
(pp. 61–72)
The Economic Status of African-Americans
Symposium on the Economic Status of African-Americans
by Henry J. Aaron
(pp. 3–7)
The Labor Market Status of Black Americans: 1939-1985
by Gerald D. Jaynes
(pp. 9–24)
The Role of Human Capital in Earnings Differences between Black and White Men
by June O'Neill
(pp. 25–45)
The Impact of Affirmative Action Regulation and Equal Employment Law on Black Employment
by Jonathan S. Leonard
(pp. 47–63)
Family Change among Black Americans: What Do We Know?
by David T. Ellwood and Jonathan Crane
(pp. 65–84)
The State and Economic Development
Symposium on the State and Economic Development
by Pranab Bardhan
(pp. 3–7)
Government Failures in Development
by Anne O. Krueger
(pp. 9–23)
Market Failure and Government Failure
by Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri
(pp. 25–39)
Industrial Policy in an Export-Propelled Economy: Lessons from South Korea's Experience
by Larry E. Westphal
(pp. 41–59)
The Latin American State
by Albert Fishlow
(pp. 61–74)
Collaboration, Innovation and Antitrust
Innovation and Cooperation: Implications for Competition and Antitrust
by Thomas M. Jorde and David J. Teece
(pp. 75–96)
Antitrust Law and Innovation Cooperation
by Joseph F. Brodley
(pp. 97–112)
On the Antitrust Treatment of Production Joint Ventures
by Carl Shapiro and Robert D. Willig
(pp. 113–130)
Bubbles
Symposium on Bubbles
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
(pp. 13–18)
The Noise Trader Approach to Finance
by Andrei Shleifer and Lawrence H. Summers
(pp. 19–33)
Famous First Bubbles
by Peter M. Garber
(pp. 35–54)
Speculative Prices and Popular Models
by Robert J. Shiller
(pp. 55–65)
The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Revisited
by Eugene N. White
(pp. 67–83)
On Testing for Speculative Bubbles
by Robert P. Flood and Robert J. Hodrick
(pp. 85–101)
New Institutions for Developing Country Debt
Symposium on New Institutions for Developing Country Debt
by Kenneth Rogoff
(pp. 3–6)
Organizing Debt Relief: The Need for a New Institution
by Peter B. Kenen
(pp. 7–18)
A Strategy for Efficient Debt Reduction
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
(pp. 19–29)
Cleaning Up Third World Debt without Getting Taken to the Cleaners
by Jeremy Bulow and Kenneth Rogoff
(pp. 31–42)
Debt Relief and the International Enforcement of Loan Contracts
by Jonathan Eaton
(pp. 43–56)
Welfare and Workfare
The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America
by Gary Burtless
(pp. 57–78)
Work and Welfare: Lessons on Employment Programs
by Judith M. Gueron
(pp. 79–98)
Federal Deposit Insurance
Symposium on Federal Deposit Insurance for S&L Institutions
by Dwight M. Jaffee
(pp. 3–9)
The Reform of Federal Deposit Insurance
by Lawrence J. White
(pp. 11–29)
The High Cost of Incompletely Funding the FSLIC Shortage of Explicit Capital
by Edward J. Kane
(pp. 31–47)
Seniority and Wages
Seniority, Wages and Productivity: A Turbulent Decade
by Robert M. Hutchens
(pp. 49–64)
Self-Enforcing Contracts, Shirking, and Life Cycle Incentives
by H. Lorne Carmichael
(pp. 65–83)
Social Norms
Spontaneous Order
by Robert Sugden
(pp. 85–97)
Social Norms and Economic Theory
by Jon Elster
(pp. 99–117)
Auctions
Auctions and Bidding: A Primer
by Paul Milgrom
(pp. 3–22)
How Auctions Work for Wine and Art
by Orley Ashenfelter
(pp. 23–36)
Auctions as an Allocation Mechanism in Academia: The Case of Faculty Offices
by William J. Boyes and Stephen K. Happel
(pp. 37–40)
Expected Revenue from Open and Sealed Bid Auctions
by John G. Riley
(pp. 41–50)
Real Business Cycles
Understanding Real Business Cycles
by Charles I. Plosser
(pp. 51–77)
Real Business Cycles: A New Keynesian Perspective
by N. Gregory Mankiw
(pp. 79–90)
Budget Deficit
Symposium on the Budget Deficit
by Janet L. Yellen
(pp. 17–21)
Budget Deficits and National Saving: Are Politicians Exogenous?
by Edward M. Gramlich
(pp. 23–35)
The Ricardian Approach to Budget Deficits
by Robert J. Barro
(pp. 37–54)
A Neoclassical Perspective on Budget Deficits
by B. Douglas Bernheim
(pp. 55–72)
Budget Deficits: Rhetoric and Reality
by Robert Eisner
(pp. 73–93)
Women in the Labor Market
Symposium on Women in the Labor Market
(pp. 3–7)
Women in the Labor Market and in the Family
by James P. Smith and Michael Ward
(pp. 9–23)
Women's Quest for Economic Equality
by Victor R. Fuchs
(pp. 25–41)
Does the Market for Women's Labor Need Fixing?
by Barbara R. Bergmann
(pp. 43–60)
Women and Affirmative Action
by Jonathan S. Leonard
(pp. 61–75)
The Slowdown in Productivity Growth
Symposium on the Slowdown in Productivity Growth
by Stanley Fischer
(pp. 3–7)
Productivity Puzzles and R&D: Another Nonexplanation
by Zvi Griliches
(pp. 9–21)
Productivity and Postwar U.S. Economic Growth
by Dale W. Jorgenson
(pp. 23–41)
The Productivity Slowdown, the Oil Shocks, and the Real Cycle
by Mancur Olson
(pp. 43–69)
Tax Policy and Economic Growth: Lessons from the 1980s
by Michael J. Boskin
(pp. 71–97)