Journal of Economic Perspectives

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

Issues

Motivated Beliefs

Summer 2016

The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning

by Nicholas Epley and Thomas Gilovich

(pp. 133–40)

Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs

by Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole

(pp. 141–64)

The Preference for Belief Consonance

by Russell Golman, George Loewenstein, Karl Ove Moene, and Luca Zarri

(pp. 165–88)

Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically

by Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton, and Roberto A. Weber

(pp. 189–212)

NSF Funding for Economists

Summer 2016

In Defense of the NSF Economics Program

by Robert A. Moffitt

(pp. 213–34)

A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research

by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok

(pp. 235–48)

Inequality Beyond Income

Spring 2016

Consumption Inequality

by Orazio P. Attanasio and Luigi Pistaferri

(pp. 3–28)

Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach

by Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

(pp. 29–52)

Health Insurance and Income Inequality

by Robert Kaestner and Darren Lubotsky

(pp. 53–78)

Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

by Shelly Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak, and Jenna Stearns

(pp. 79–102)

Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality

by Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

(pp. 103–26)

The Bretton Woods Institutions

Winter 2016

The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention

by Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

(pp. 3–28)

The IMF's Unmet Challenges

by Barry Eichengreen and Ngaire Woods

(pp. 29–52)

The New Role for the World Bank

by Michael A. Clemens and Michael Kremer

(pp. 53–76)

The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints

by Martin Ravallion

(pp. 77–94)

The World Trade Organization and the Future of Multilateralism

by Richard Baldwin

(pp. 95–116)

Oil and Gas Markets

Winter 2016

Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels?

by Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel

(pp. 117–38)

Forty Years of Oil Price Fluctuations: Why the Price of Oil May Still Surprise Us

by Christiane Baumeister and Lutz Kilian

(pp. 139–60)

Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So Difficult?

by Anthony J. Venables

(pp. 161–84)

Overconfidence

Fall 2015

On the Verges of Overconfidence

by Ulrike Malmendier and Timothy Taylor

(pp. 3–8)

Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace

by Michael D. Grubb

(pp. 9–36)

Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence

by Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate

(pp. 37–60)

Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading

by Kent Daniel and David Hirshleifer

(pp. 61–88)

The Future of Retail

Fall 2015

The Ongoing Evolution of US Retail: A Format Tug-of-War

by Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson

(pp. 89–112)

Adolescence and the Path to Maturity in Global Retail

by Bart J. Bronnenberg and Paul B. Ellickson

(pp. 113–34)

Online Higher Education

Fall 2015

Online Higher Education: Beyond the Hype Cycle

by Michael S. McPherson and Lawrence S. Bacow

(pp. 135–54)

How Economics Faculty Can Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) in a Brave New Online World

by Peter Navarro

(pp. 155–76)

Automation and Labor Markets

Summer 2015

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation

by David H. Autor

(pp. 3–30)

The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?

by Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth

(pp. 31–50)

Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?

by Gill A. Pratt

(pp. 51–60)

Pre-Analysis Plans in Economics

Summer 2015

Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans

by Benjamin A. Olken

(pp. 61–80)

Pre-analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible

by Lucas C. Coffman and Muriel Niederle

(pp. 81–98)

Doing Business

Summer 2015

Law, Regulation, and the Business Climate: The Nature and Influence of the World Bank Doing Business Project

by Timothy Besley

(pp. 99–120)

How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules

by Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Lant Pritchett

(pp. 121–40)

The Bailouts of 2007-2009

Spring 2015

A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

by Austan D. Goolsbee and Alan B. Krueger

(pp. 3–24)

The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

by W. Scott Frame, Andreas Fuster, Joseph Tracy, and James Vickery

(pp. 25–52)

An Assessment of TARP Assistance to Financial Institutions

by Charles W. Calomiris and Urooj Khan

(pp. 53–80)

AIG in Hindsight

by Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson

(pp. 81–106)

Legal, Political, and Institutional Constraints on the Financial Crisis Policy Response

by Phillip Swagel

(pp. 107–22)

Disability Insurance

Spring 2015

Understanding the Increase in Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt in the United States

by Jeffrey B. Liebman

(pp. 123–50)

The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands

by Pierre Koning and Maarten Lindeboom

(pp. 151–72)

Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom

by James Banks, Richard Blundell, and Carl Emmerson

(pp. 173–90)

Wealth and Inequality

Winter 2015

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

(pp. 3–28)

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

by Charles I. Jones

(pp. 29–46)

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

by Wojciech Kopczuk

(pp. 47–66)

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

by Thomas Piketty

(pp. 67–88)

Social Networks

Fall 2014

Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors

by Matthew O. Jackson

(pp. 3–22)

From Micro to Macro via Production Networks

by Vasco M. Carvalho

(pp. 23–48)

Community Networks and the Process of Development

by Kaivan Munshi

(pp. 49–76)

Tax Enforcement and Compliance

Fall 2014

How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much?

by Henrik Jacobsen Kleven

(pp. 77–98)

Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little?

by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

(pp. 99–120)

Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits

by Gabriel Zucman

(pp. 121–48)

Tax Morale

by Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal

(pp. 149–68)

Entrepreneurship

Summer 2014

The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism

by Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda

(pp. 3–24)

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

by William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

(pp. 25–48)

Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

by Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber

(pp. 49–70)

Classic Ideas in Development

Summer 2014

The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective

by Douglas Gollin

(pp. 71–88)

The Missing "Missing Middle"

by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Benjamin A. Olken

(pp. 89–108)

Informality and Development

by Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer

(pp. 109–26)

Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence

by Aart Kraay and David McKenzie

(pp. 127–48)

Academic Production

Summer 2014

Page Limits on Economics Articles: Evidence from Two Journals

by David Card and Stefano DellaVigna

(pp. 149–68)

What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics

by Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez, and Laszlo Sandor

(pp. 169–88)

The Effects of an Anti-Grade-Inflation Policy at Wellesley College

by Kristin F. Butcher, Patrick J. McEwan, and Akila Weerapana

(pp. 189–204)

The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-success of the Successful

by John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder

(pp. 205–16)

Big Data

Spring 2014

Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics

by Hal R. Varian

(pp. 3–28)

High-Dimensional Methods and Inference on Structural and Treatment Effects

by Alexandre Belloni, Victor Chernozhukov, and Christian Hansen

(pp. 29–50)

Political Campaigns and Big Data

by David W. Nickerson and Todd Rogers

(pp. 51–74)

Privacy and Data-Based Research

by Ori Heffetz and Katrina Ligett

(pp. 75–98)

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