Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Issues

Government Incentives for Saving

Fall 1996

Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives

by R. Glenn Hubbard and Jonathan S. Skinner

(pp. 73–90)

How Retirement Saving Programs Increase Saving

by James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise

(pp. 91–112)

The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving

by Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and John Karl Scholz

(pp. 113–138)

Fifty Years of the Council of Economic Advisers

Summer 1996

A Successful Accident: Recollections and Speculations about the CEA

by Herbert Stein

(pp. 3–21)

The CEA: An Inside Voice for Mainstream Economics

by Charles L. Schultze

(pp. 23–39)

Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946

by J. Bradford De Long

(pp. 41–53)

Social security

Summer 1996

Different Approaches for Dealing with Social Security

by Edward M. Gramlich

(pp. 55–66)

Proposals to Restructure Social Security

by Peter A. Diamond

(pp. 67–88)

Transition from Socialism

Spring 1996

How Far Has the Transition Progressed?

by Peter Murrell

(pp. 25–44)

Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies: The Early Experience

by Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos A. Vegh

(pp. 45–66)

Privatization Is Transition--Or Is It?

by Josef C. Brada

(pp. 67–86)

The Roles of the State and the Market in Establishing Property Rights

by Andrzej Rapaczynski

(pp. 87–103)

The Economics of Crime

Winter 1996

Help Wanted: Economists, Crime and Public Policy

by John J. DiIulio

(pp. 3–24)

Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do about It?

by Richard B. Freeman

(pp. 25–42)

Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses

by Isaac Ehrlich

(pp. 43–67)

Computational Experiments in Macroeconomics

Winter 1996

The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool

by Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott

(pp. 69–85)

The Empirical Foundations of Calibration

by Lars Peter Hansen and James J. Heckman

(pp. 87–104)

Macroeconomics and Methodology

by Christopher A. Sims

(pp. 105–120)

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Fall 1995

Symposium on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

by Frederic S. Mishkin

(pp. 3–10)

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Framework

by John B. Taylor

(pp. 11–26)

Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission

by Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler

(pp. 27–48)

Monetary, Credit and (Other) Transmission Processes: A Monetarist Perspective

by Allan H. Meltzer

(pp. 49–72)

The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates

by Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

(pp. 73–96)

Might Environmental Regulation Promote Growth?

Fall 1995

Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship

by Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde

(pp. 97–118)

Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?

by Karen Palmer, Wallace E. Oates, and Paul R. Portney

(pp. 119–132)

Income Inequality and Trade

Summer 1995

Are Your Wages Set in Beijing?

by Richard B. Freeman

(pp. 15–32)

Income Inequality and Trade: How to Think, What to Conclude

by J. David Richardson

(pp. 33–55)

How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers

by Adrian Wood

(pp. 57–80)

Consumption Smoothing in Developing Countries

Summer 1995

Symposium on Consumption Smoothing in Developing Countries

by Anne Case

(pp. 81–82)

Consumption Insurance: An Evaluation of Risk-Bearing Systems in Low-Income Economies

by Robert M. Townsend

(pp. 83–102)

Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing

by Jonathan Morduch

(pp. 103–114)

Nonmarket Institutions for Credit and Risk Sharing in Low-Income Countries

by Timothy Besley

(pp. 115–127)

Immigration

Spring 1995

The Economic Benefits from Immigration

by George J. Borjas

(pp. 3–22)

The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth

by Rachel M. Friedberg and Jennifer Hunt

(pp. 23–44)

Tackling the European Migration Problems

by Klaus F. Zimmermann

(pp. 45–62)

Social Experiments

Spring 1995

The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research

by Gary Burtless

(pp. 63–84)

Assessing the Case for Social Experiments

by James J. Heckman and Jeffrey A. Smith

(pp. 85–110)

Economics of Voting

Winter 1995

An Introduction to Vote-Counting Schemes

by Jonathan Levin and Barry Nalebuff

(pp. 3–26)

The Single Transferable Vote

by Nicolaus Tideman

(pp. 27–38)

Approval Voting

by Robert J. Weber

(pp. 39–49)

Optimal Voting Rules

by Peyton Young

(pp. 51–64)

Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition

by Douglas W. Rae

(pp. 65–75)

Analysis of Democratic Institutions: Structure, Conduct and Performance

by Roger B. Myerson

(pp. 77–89)

How to Judge Voting Schemes

by Amartya Sen

(pp. 91–98)

Contingent Valuation

Fall 1994

The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care

by Paul R. Portney

(pp. 3–17)

Valuing the Environment through Contingent Valuation

by W. Michael Hanemann

(pp. 19–43)

Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number?

by Peter A. Diamond and Jerry A. Hausman

(pp. 45–64)

Defense Procurement

Fall 1994

Economic Incentives and the Defense Procurement Process

by William P. Rogerson

(pp. 65–90)

Competition Policy, Rivalries, and Defense Industry Consolidation

by William E. Kovacic and Dennis E. Smallwood

(pp. 91–110)

Health Care Reform

Summer 1994

Symposium on Health Care Reform

by Joseph P. Newhouse

(pp. 3–12)

A Guide to Health Care Reform

by David M. Cutler

(pp. 13–30)

Issues Every Plan to Reform Health Care Financing Must Confront

by Henry J. Aaron

(pp. 31–44)

Universal Health Insurance in the Clinton Plan: Coverage as a Tax-Financed Public Good

by Mark V. Pauly

(pp. 45–54)

Public Finance Principles and National Health Care Reform

by Richard Zeckhauser

(pp. 55–60)

Two Improvements on the Clinton Framework

by Peter A. Diamond

(pp. 61–66)

A Skeptic's View of Global Budget Caps

by James M. Poterba

(pp. 67–74)

Internet

Summer 1994

Economic FAQs About the Internet

by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Hal Varian

(pp. 75–96)

Computer Network Resources for Economists

by William L. Goffe

(pp. 97–120)

China

Spring 1994

Completing China's Move to the Market

by Dwight H. Perkins

(pp. 23–46)

Enterprise Reform in Chinese Industry

by Gary H. Jefferson and Thomas G. Rawski

(pp. 47–70)

China's Macroeconomic Performance and Management during Transition

by Shahid Yusuf

(pp. 71–92)

Network Externalities

Spring 1994

Systems Competition and Network Effects

by Michael L. Katz and Carl Shapiro

(pp. 93–115)

Choosing How to Compete: Strategies and Tactics in Standardization

by Stanley M. Besen and Joseph Farrell

(pp. 117–131)

Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy

by S. J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis

(pp. 133–150)

New Growth Theory

Winter 1994

The Origins of Endogenous Growth

by Paul M. Romer

(pp. 3–22)

Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth

by Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

(pp. 23–44)

Perspectives on Growth Theory

by Robert M. Solow

(pp. 45–54)

Endogenous Growth Theory: Intellectual Appeal and Empirical Shortcomings

by Howard Pack

(pp. 55–72)

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