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The Microsoft Case
An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft
by Richard J. Gilbert and Michael L. Katz
(pp. 25–44)
The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its Market Position?
by Benjamin Klein
(pp. 45–62)
Exclusivity and Tying in U.S. v. Microsoft: What We Know, and Don't Know
by Michael D. Whinston
(pp. 63–80)
Changes in Corporate Structure
Capital Structure
by Stewart C. Myers
(pp. 81–102)
New Evidence and Perspectives on Mergers
by Gregor Andrade, Mark Mitchell, and Erik Stafford
(pp. 103–120)
Corporate Governance and Merger Activity in the United States: Making Sense of the 1980s and 1990s
by Bengt Holmstrom and Steven N. Kaplan
(pp. 121–144)
The Venture Capital Revolution
by Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
(pp. 145–168)
E-Commerce
Economics and Electronic Commerce
by Severin Borenstein and Garth Saloner
(pp. 3–12)
The Implications of Electronic Commerce for Fiscal Policy (and Vice Versa)
by Austan Goolsbee
(pp. 13–23)
Wiring the Labor Market
by David H. Autor
(pp. 25–40)
The Internet and the Investor
by Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean
(pp. 41–54)
Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce
by David Lucking-Reiley and Daniel F. Spulber
(pp. 55–68)
The Emerging Landscape for Retail E-Commerce
by Yannis Bakos
(pp. 69–80)
The North American Economy
A Symposium on the North American Economy
by J. Bradford De Long
(pp. 81–83)
Life Is Not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth
by Nora Lustig
(pp. 85–106)
Canada: Life beyond the Looking Glass
by John F. Helliwell
(pp. 107–124)
The Impact of NAFTA on the United States
by Mary E. Burfisher, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder
(pp. 125–144)
Computers and Productivity
The Resurgence of Growth in the Late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?
by Stephen D. Oliner and Daniel E. Sichel
(pp. 3–22)
Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Lorin M. Hitt
(pp. 23–48)
Does the "New Economy" Measure Up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
by Robert J. Gordon
(pp. 49–74)
Women and the Labor Market
Gender Differences in Pay
by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
(pp. 75–99)
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor
by Dora L. Costa
(pp. 101–122)
For Love or Money--Or Both?
by Nancy Folbre and Julie A. Nelson
(pp. 123–140)
Women's Work and Economic Development
by Kristin Mammen and Christina Paxson
(pp. 141–164)
Fiscal Policy
The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States
by Alberto Alesina
(pp. 3–19)
Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy
by John B. Taylor
(pp. 21–36)
The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers
by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel R. Feenberg
(pp. 37–56)
Should America Save for Its Old Age? Fiscal Policy, Population Aging, and National Saving
by Douglas W. Elmendorf and Louise M. Sheiner
(pp. 57–74)
Sports Economics
The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory
by Lawrence M. Kahn
(pp. 75–94)
The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities
by John J. Siegfried and Andrew Zimbalist
(pp. 95–114)
The Future of Medicare
Medicare Reform: Fundamental Problems, Incremental Steps
by Mark McClellan
(pp. 21–44)
Walking the Tightrope on Medicare Reform
by David M. Cutler
(pp. 45–56)
Medicare Reform: The Larger Picture
by Victor R. Fuchs
(pp. 57–70)
Health Care for the Aging Baby Boom: Lessons from Abroad
by Uwe E. Reinhardt
(pp. 71–83)
Making the Transition to Prepaid Medicare
by Thomas R. Saving
(pp. 85–98)
Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy
The Worldwide Standard of Living since 1800
by Richard A. Easterlin
(pp. 7–26)
What the Change of System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean
by Jànos Kornai
(pp. 27–42)
Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking
by William E. Kovacic and Carl Shapiro
(pp. 43–60)
American Government Finance in the Long Run: 1790 to 1990
by John Joseph Wallis
(pp. 61–82)
The Triumph of Monetarism?
by J. Bradford De Long
(pp. 83–94)
The Neoclassical Advent: American Economics at the Dawn of the 20th Century
by Joseph Persky
(pp. 95–108)
Forecasts for the Future of Economics
Teaching Economics in the 21st Century
by William E. Becker
(pp. 109–119)
New Millennium Economics: How Did It Get This Way, and What Way Is It?
by David Colander
(pp. 121–132)
From Homo Economicus to Homo Sapiens
by Richard H. Thaler
(pp. 133–141)
The Future of Microeconomic Theory
by Beth Allen
(pp. 143–150)
Toward a Macroeconomics of the Medium Run
by Robert M. Solow
(pp. 151–158)
Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century
by Robert E. Lucas
(pp. 159–168)
Forecasts for the Future of the Economy
Can America Stay on Top?
by Paul Krugman
(pp. 169–175)
How Far Will International Economic Integration Go?
by Dani Rodrik
(pp. 177–186)
Anti-Poverty Policy for Families in the Next Century: From Welfare to Work--and Worries
by David T. Ellwood
(pp. 187–198)
Environmental Problems and Policy: 2000-2050
by Paul R. Portney
(pp. 199–206)
Worker Protection Policies in the New Century
by Bernard E. Anderson
(pp. 207–214)
Global Financial Instability
Global Financial Instability: Framework, Events, Issues
by Frederic S. Mishkin
(pp. 3–20)
International Institutions for Reducing Global Financial Instability
by Kenneth Rogoff
(pp. 21–42)
Restoring Banking Stability: Beyond Supervised Capital Requirements
by Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan
(pp. 43–64)
How Effective Are Capital Controls?
by Sebastian Edwards
(pp. 65–84)
Slow Growth in Africa
Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?
by Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning
(pp. 3–22)
Commodity Prices and Growth in Africa
by Angus Deaton
(pp. 23–40)
Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Benno J. Ndulu and Stephen A. O'Connell
(pp. 41–66)
Health and Schooling Investments in Africa
by T. Paul Schultz
(pp. 67–88)
Africa's Economic Performance: Limitations of the Current Consensus
by John Sender
(pp. 89–114)
Business Cycles
Introduction to the Symposium on Business Cycles
by J. Bradford De Long
(pp. 19–22)
Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations
by Christina D. Romer
(pp. 23–44)
Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective
by Susanto Basu and Alan M. Taylor
(pp. 45–68)
Theory and History behind Business Cycles: Are the 1990s the Onset of a Golden Age?
by Victor Zarnowitz
(pp. 69–90)
Economists as Expert Witnesses
The Law and Economics of the Economic Expert Witness
by Richard A. Posner
(pp. 91–99)
The Economist in Tort Litigation
by Robert Thornton and John Ward
(pp. 101–112)
Going for the Gold: Economists as Expert Witnesses
by Michael J. Mandel
(pp. 113–120)
The Economics of Higher Education
The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium
by Charles T. Clotfelter
(pp. 3–12)
Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education
by Gordon C. Winston
(pp. 13–36)
The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
(pp. 37–62)
The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work
by Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Elena Rouse
(pp. 63–84)
Tenure Issues in Higher Education
by Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro
(pp. 85–98)
Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg
(pp. 99–116)
Globalization in Perspective
Symposium on Globalization in Perspective: An Introduction
by Dani Rodrik
(pp. 3–8)
The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?
by Maurice Obstfeld
(pp. 9–30)
Integration of Trade and Disintegration of Production in the Global Economy
by Robert C. Feenstra
(pp. 31–50)
Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past
by Jeffrey G. Williamson
(pp. 51–72)
The Firm and its Boundaries
The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited
by Bengt Holmstrom and John Roberts
(pp. 73–94)
Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organizations
by Patrick Bolton and David S. Scharfstein
(pp. 95–114)
Incentives in Organizations
by Robert Gibbons
(pp. 115–132)
State versus Private Ownership
by Andrei Shleifer
(pp. 133–150)