Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 29 No. 1 Winter 2015

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Abstract

Author

Front Matter (pp. 1-2)

Symposium: Wealth and Inequality

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

(pp. 3-28)

Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality

Charles I. Jones

(pp. 29-46)

What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?

Wojciech Kopczuk

(pp. 47-66)

Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

(pp. 67-88)

Articles

The Superiority of Economists

Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan

(pp. 89-114)

The Case for Paying College Athletes

Allen R. Sanderson and John J. Siegfried

(pp. 115-38)

Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs

David H. Howard, Peter B. Bach, Ernst R. Berndt and Rena M. Conti

(pp. 139-62)

The Window Tax: A Case Study in Excess Burden

Wallace E. Oates and Robert M. Schwab

(pp. 163-80)

Matthew Gentzkow, Winner of the 2014 Clark Medal

Andrei Shleifer

(pp. 181-92)

Features

Retrospectives: The Marginal Cost Controversy

Brett M. Frischmann and Christiaan Hogendorn

(pp. 193-206)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Timothy Taylor

(pp. 207-14)

Correspondence: Fair Trade Coffee

Victor V. Claar and Colleen E. Haight

(pp. 215-16)

Editorial Note: Correction to Richard S. Tol's "The Economic Effects of Climate Change" (pp. 217-20)