Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives

By David Autor

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

By Esther Duflo

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

By Alan J. Auerbach

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

By Steven J. Davis

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

By Andrew Postlewaite

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists

By John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Committee on Economic Education for 2009

By Michael Watts

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2009

By Barbara M. Fraumeni

American Economic Review, May 2010

Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession: Report of Committee Activities for the 2009 Calendar Year

By Ngina Chiteji

American Economic Review, May 2010

American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat): Annual Report--2009

By Matthew D. Shapiro

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Committee on Government Relations

By Katherine G. Abraham

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Ad Hoc Search Committee for the American Economic Review Editor

American Economic Review, May 2010

Reflections on Economics at the Turn of the Millennium

By Alan B. Krueger, J. Bradford De Long, and Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

To commemorate the new millennium and 50 issues of JEP, we have commissioned a series of essays in three broad areas. The first set of papers in this issue look back at key developments in the economy and economic thinking. In a second group of articles, ...

The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By Richard A. Easterlin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

By many measures a revolution in living conditions is sweeping the world. Most people today are better fed, clothed, and house than their predecessors two centuries ago. They are healthier, live longer, and are better educated. Women's lives are less cent...

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

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By Jànos Kornai

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By William E. Kovacic and Carl Shapiro

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

This article follows the evolution of thinking about competition since the passage of the Sherman Act in 1890 as reflected by major antitrust decisions and research in industrial organization. We divide the U.S. antitrust experience into five periods and ...

American Government Finance in the Long Run: 1790 to 1990

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By John Joseph Wallis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

Government in America has gone through three distinct fiscal systems in the last two hundred years. Each system utilized a dominant revenue source, and had a distinctly active level of government. The changing structure of government by level seems to be ...

The Triumph of Monetarism?

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By J. Bradford De Long

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

The story of 20th century macroeconomics begins with Irving Fisher. In his books Appreciation and Interest (1896), The Rate of Interest (1907), and The Purchasing Power of Money (1911), Fisher fueled the intellectual fire that became known as monetarism. ...

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

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By Joseph Persky

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

For the U.S. economy, the last quarter of the 19th century brought the closing of the Western frontier, agricultural hardship in the South, the rise of large corporations and trusts, and the emergence of a serious labor movement. The fledgling American ec...

Teaching Economics in the 21st Century

[Symposium: Forecasts for the Future of Economics]

By William E. Becker

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

The desire to reverse a downward trend in the number of undergraduates majoring in economics is an impetus to advance the scholarship of teaching economics as we enter the 21st century. This article offers suggestions for changing the concepts taught and ...