Journal of Economic Perspectives

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

Issues

The Top 1 Percent

The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

by Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez

(pp. 3–20)

Defending the One Percent

by N. Gregory Mankiw

(pp. 21–34)

It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent

by Steven N. Kaplan and Joshua Rauh

(pp. 35–56)

The Pay of Corporate Executives and Financial Professionals as Evidence of Rents in Top 1 Percent Incomes

by Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel

(pp. 57–78)

Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

by Miles Corak

(pp. 79–102)

Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?

by Adam Bonica, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal

(pp. 103–24)

The Euro

What Is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

by Enrico Spolaore

(pp. 125–44)

Political Credit Cycles: The Case of the Eurozone

by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Luis Garicano, and Tano Santos

(pp. 145–66)

Cross of Euros

by Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor

(pp. 167–92)

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and the Case for Temporary Inflation in the Eurozone

by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martin Uribe

(pp. 193–212)

The Growth of the Financial Sector

The Growth of Finance

by Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein

(pp. 3–28)

Finance: Function Matters, Not Size

by John H. Cochrane

(pp. 29–50)

Moore's Law versus Murphy's Law: Algorithmic Trading and Its Discontents

by Andrei A. Kirilenko and Andrew W. Lo

(pp. 51–72)

An International Look at the Growth of Modern Finance

by Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef

(pp. 73–96)

Asset Management Fees and the Growth of Finance

by Burton G. Malkiel

(pp. 97–108)

Early and Later Interventions

Investing in Preschool Programs

by Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson

(pp. 109–32)

What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools?

by Julie Berry Cullen, Steven D. Levitt, Erin Robertson, and Sally Sadoff

(pp. 133–52)

Beyond BA Blinders: Lessons from Occupational Colleges and Certificate Programs for Nontraditional Students

by James E. Rosenbaum and Janet Rosenbaum

(pp. 153–72)

Patents

The Case against Patents

by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine

(pp. 3–22)

Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History

by Petra Moser

(pp. 23–44)

The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators, and Super-Aggregators

by Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie

(pp. 45–66)

Of Smart Phone Wars and Software Patents

by Stuart Graham and Saurabh Vishnubhakat

(pp. 67–86)

Trading Pollution Permits

Markets for Pollution Allowances: What Are the (New) Lessons?

by Lawrence H. Goulder

(pp. 87–102)

The SO₂ Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment

by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins

(pp. 103–22)

Carbon Markets 15 Years after Kyoto: Lessons Learned, New Challenges

by Richard G. Newell, William A. Pizer, and Daniel Raimi

(pp. 123–46)

Moving Pollution Trading from Air to Water: Potential, Problems, and Prognosis

by Karen Fisher-Vanden and Sheila Olmstead

(pp. 147–72)

Contingent Valuation

From Exxon to BP: Has Some Number Become Better Than No Number?

by Catherine L. Kling, Daniel J. Phaneuf, and Jinhua Zhao

(pp. 3–26)

Contingent Valuation: A Practical Alternative When Prices Aren't Available

by Richard T. Carson

(pp. 27–42)

Contingent Valuation: From Dubious to Hopeless

by Jerry Hausman

(pp. 43–56)

China's Economy

The End of Cheap Chinese Labor

by Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Binzhen Wu, and Yanyan Xiong

(pp. 57–74)

Labor Market Outcomes and Reforms in China

by Xin Meng

(pp. 75–102)

Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future

by Xiaodong Zhu

(pp. 103–24)

Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China

by Dennis Tao Yang

(pp. 125–46)

How Did China Take Off?

by Yasheng Huang

(pp. 147–70)

Labor Markets and Unemployment

A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise?

by Mary C. Daly, Bart Hobijn, Ayşegül Şahin, and Robert G. Valletta

(pp. 3–26)

Who Suffers during Recessions?

by Hilary Hoynes, Douglas L. Miller, and Jessamyn Schaller

(pp. 27–48)

Government Debt

The European Sovereign Debt Crisis

by Philip R. Lane

(pp. 49–68)

Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes since 1800

by Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff

(pp. 69–86)

100 Issues of JEP

The Journal of Economic Perspectives at 100 (Issues)

by David Autor

(pp. 3–18)

The Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Marketplace of Ideas: A View from the Founding

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

(pp. 19–26)

From the Desk of the Managing Editor

by Timothy Taylor

(pp. 27–40)

International Trade

The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade

by Gordon H. Hanson

(pp. 41–64)

Putting Ricardo to Work

by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

(pp. 65–90)

Gains from Trade When Firms Matter

by Marc J. Melitz and Daniel Trefler

(pp. 91–118)

Globalization and U.S. Wages: Modifying Classic Theory to Explain Recent Facts

by Jonathan Haskel, Robert Z. Lawrence, Edward E. Leamer, and Matthew J. Slaughter

(pp. 119–40)

Energy Challenges

Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?

by Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone

(pp. 3–28)

Creating a Smarter U.S. Electricity Grid

by Paul L. Joskow

(pp. 29–48)

Prospects for Nuclear Power

by Lucas W. Davis

(pp. 49–66)

The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation

by Severin Borenstein

(pp. 67–92)

Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

by Christopher R. Knittel

(pp. 93–118)

How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?

by Catherine Wolfram, Orie Shelef, and Paul Gertler

(pp. 119–38)

Higher Education

The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

by David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz

(pp. 139–64)

Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much--Or Not Enough?

by Christopher Avery and Sarah Turner

(pp. 165–92)

American Higher Education in Transition

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg

(pp. 193–216)

Neuroeconomics

Neuroeconomic Foundations of Economic Choice--Recent Advances

by Ernst Fehr and Antonio Rangel

(pp. 3–30)

It's about Space, It's about Time, Neuroeconomics and the Brain Sublime

by Marieke van Rooij and Guy Van Orden

(pp. 31–56)

Genetics and Economics

Molecular Genetics and Economics

by Jonathan P. Beauchamp, David Cesarini, Magnus Johannesson, Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos, Philipp D. Koellinger, Patrick J. F. Groenen, James H. Fowler, J. Niels Rosenquist, A. Roy Thurik, and Nicholas A. Christakis

(pp. 57–82)

Genes, Eyeglasses, and Social Policy

by Charles F. Manski

(pp. 83–94)

After Retirement

The Composition and Drawdown of Wealth in Retirement

by James Poterba, Steven Venti, and David Wise

(pp. 95–118)

Insuring Long-Term Care in the United States

by Jeffrey R. Brown and Amy Finkelstein

(pp. 119–42)

Annuitization Puzzles

by Shlomo Benartzi, Alessandro Previtero, and Richard H. Thaler

(pp. 143–64)

Field Experiments

Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pulling One Off

by John A. List

(pp. 3–16)

Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

by Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan

(pp. 17–38)

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

by David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, and Ulrike Malmendier

(pp. 39–62)

Field Experiments with Firms

by Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, and Imran Rasul

(pp. 63–82)

Emigration

Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?

by Michael A. Clemens

(pp. 83–106)

Eight Questions about Brain Drain

by John Gibson and David McKenzie

(pp. 107–28)

Migrant Remittances

by Dean Yang

(pp. 129–52)

Constraining Healthcare Costs

The (Paper)Work of Medicine: Understanding International Medical Costs

by David M. Cutler and Dan P. Ly

(pp. 3–25)

The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research

by Amitabh Chandra, Anupam B. Jena, and Jonathan S. Skinner

(pp. 27–46)

Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Spending Growth

by Katherine Baicker and Dana Goldman

(pp. 47–68)

Reforming Payments to Healthcare Providers: The Key to Slowing Healthcare Cost Growth While Improving Quality?

by Mark McClellan

(pp. 69–92)

Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform

by Daniel P. Kessler

(pp. 93–110)

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