Correspondence

By Robert D. Laurent, J. Bradford De Long, George Bredon, Martin Shanahan, Carl S. Bonham, and Richard H. Cohen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2000

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2000

Index By Author to Volume 14

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2000

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2000

Economics and Electronic Commerce

[Symposium: E-Commerce]

By Severin Borenstein and Garth Saloner

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

The Implications of Electronic Commerce for Fiscal Policy (and Vice Versa)

[Symposium: E-Commerce]

By Austan Goolsbee

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Wiring the Labor Market

[Symposium: E-Commerce]

By David H. Autor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast. The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening? I discuss three l...

The Internet and the Investor

[Symposium: E-Commerce]

By Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

[Symposium: E-Commerce]

By David Lucking-Reiley and Daniel F. Spulber

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Just as the industrial revolution mechanized the manufacturing functions of firms, the information revolution is automating their merchant functions. Four types of potential productivity gains are expected from business-to-business (B2B) electronic commer...

The Emerging Landscape for Retail E-Commerce

[Symposium: E-Commerce]

By Yannis Bakos

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

A Symposium on the North American Economy

[Symposium: The North American Economy]

By J. Bradford De Long

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth

[Symposium: The North American Economy]

By Nora Lustig

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

In the wake of the debt crisis in 1982, Mexico adopted far reaching reforms but growth and stability remained elusive for many years. At present, the reforms and NAFTA seem to be finally paying off: inflation for 2000 is close to 10 percent and output per...

Canada: Life beyond the Looking Glass

[Symposium: The North American Economy]

By John F. Helliwell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Canada's population, a tenth that of the United States, is perched close to the U.S. northern border, tightly but asymmetrically tied to U.S. information networks. However, trade, capital and population mobility remains an order of magnitude tighter among...

The Impact of NAFTA on the United States

[Symposium: The North American Economy]

By Mary E. Burfisher, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

We describe the main economic arguments posed for and against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) during the U.S. policy debate. To evaluate these arguments, we analyze recent trade data and survey post-NAFTA studies. We find that both the U.S...

No History of Ideas, Please, We're Economists

By Mark Blaug

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Insiders versus Outsiders

By Assar Lindbeck and Dennis J. Snower

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

In Honor of Andrei Shleifer: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal

By Olivier Blanchard

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Policy Watch: Death Watch for the Estate Tax?

By William G. Gale and Joel B. Slemrod

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Anomalies: Risk Aversion

By Matthew Rabin and Richard H. Thaler

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Economists ubiquitously employ a simple and elegant explanation for risk aversion: It derives from the concavity of the utility-of-wealth function within the expected-utility framework. We show that this explanation is not plausible in most applications, ...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001