Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2003

This section will list readings that may be especially useful to teachers of undergraduate economics, as well as other articles that are of broader cultural interest. In general, the articles chosen will be expository or integrative and not focus on origi...

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Japan's Financial Crisis and Economic Stagnation

[Symposium: Japan's Economy]

By Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

We survey the macroeconomic stagnation and financial problems in Japan. The financial sector assessment includes separate analyses of the commercial banks, the life insurance companies and the government's fiscal investment and loan program (FILP). We est...

Competition in Japan

[Symposium: Japan's Economy]

By Michael E. Porter and Mariko Sakakibara

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

This article examines competition in Japan and its link to postwar economic prosperity. While Japan's industrial structure and competition policy seem to indicate that competition in Japan has been less intense, the empirical evidence does not support thi...

Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?

[Symposium: Political Economy]

By Casey B. Mulligan, Ricard Gil, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

Estimates of democracy's effect on the public sector are obtained from comparisons of 142 countries over the years 1960-90. Based on three tenets of voting theory--that voting mutes policy preference intensity, political power is equally distributed in de...

Constitutions and Economic Policy

[Symposium: Political Economy]

By Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting

[Symposium: Political Economy]

By Timothy J. Feddersen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

Legislative Organization

[Symposium: Political Economy]

By Keith Krehbiel

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

With an emphasis on the U.S. Congress, this essay addresses political economy approaches to the study of legislative organization. Simple models provide a foundation for more sophisticated studies of one of two problems: how coalitions of intense minoriti...

Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History

By Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn't It More Affordable?

By John M. Quigley and Steven Raphael

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

This paper reviews trends in housing affordability in the U.S. over the past four decades. There is little evidence that owner-occupied housing has become less affordable. In contrast, there have been modest increases in the fraction of income that the me...

Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe

By Emily Oster

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

Retrospectives: Gender in Classical Economics

By Robert W. Dimand, Evelyn L. Forget, and Chris Nyland

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

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Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Lessons from Past Productivity Booms

By Roger W. Ferguson and William L. Wascher

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004

How Should We Measure Consumer Confidence?

[Symposium: Consumer Confidence]

By Jeff Dominitz and Charles F. Manski

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004

Research on consumer confidence has mainly sought to evaluate the power of available data to predict economic outcomes. In contrast, this article considers how best to measure consumer confidence. We analyze the responses to eight questions that have appe...

Latin America's Growth and Equity Frustrations During Structural Reforms

[Symposium: Latin America's Growth Record]

By José Antonio Ocampo

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004

This paper argues that Latin America's market-oriented reforms, together with increased monetary and fiscal discipline, were successful in bringing down inflation, inducing export growth and diversification, and attracting foreign direct investment. Nonet...

Latin America since the 1990s: Rising from the Sickbed?

[Symposium: Latin America's Growth Record]

By Arminio Fraga

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004

Asbestos and the Future of Mass Torts

By Michelle J. White

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004