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Volume 75, issue 6, 1985
- On Method in U.S. Economics a Century Earlier pp. 1-12
- William Baumol
- Early American Leaders-Institutional and Critical Traditions pp. 13-27

- Martin Bronfrenbrenner
- Neoclassical Theory in America: J. B. Clark and Fisher pp. 28-38

- James Tobin
- Early Progress in Estimating Quantitative Economic Relationships in America pp. 39-52

- Carl Christ
- The Expanding Domain of Economics pp. 53-68

- Jack Hirshleifer
Volume 75, issue 5, 1985
- New Estimates of the Value of Federal Mineral Rights and Land pp. 923-36

- Boskin, Michael J, et al
- The Simple Macroeconomics of Profit Sharing pp. 937-53

- Martin Weitzman
- OPEC Behavior: A Test of Alternative Hypotheses pp. 954-63

- James M Griffin
- Further Results on Inventories and Price Stickiness pp. 964-75

- Richard Ashley and Daniel Orr
- Costly Employment Contract Renogotiation and the Labor Mobility of Young Men pp. 976-91

- John J Antel
- The Demand for and Supply of Births: Fertility and Its Life Cycle Consequences pp. 992-1015

- Mark Rosenzweig and T Paul Schultz
- Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills pp. 1016-30

- M Boissiere, John Knight and R H Sabot
- The Labor Contract and True Economic Pension Liabilities pp. 1031-43

- Richard A Ippolito
- Rationing without Government: The West Coast Gas Famine of 1920 pp. 1044-55

- Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode
- Monetary Policy Games and the Role of Private Information pp. 1056-70

- Matthew Canzoneri
- The Relevance of Quasi Rationality in Competitive Markets pp. 1071-82

- Thomas Russell and Richard Thaler
- Efficient Adaptation in Long-term Contracts: Take-or-Pay Provisions for Natural Gas pp. 1083-93

- Scott Masten and Keith J Crocker
- Mines and Migrants in South Africa pp. 1094-1108

- Robert Lucas
- Competition and Unanimity Revisited, Again pp. 1109-14

- Clement G Krouse
- Inflation, Real Balances, Output, and Real Stock Returns [Stock Returns, Real Activity, Inflation, and Money] pp. 1115-23

- Jason Benderly and Burton Zwick
- The Cyclical Sensitivity of Wages [The Changing Cyclical Behavior of Wages and Prices: 1890-1976] [Cross-Country and Cross-Temporal Differences in Inflation Responsiveness] pp. 1124-32

- Anthony O'Brien
- The Implications of Spillover for the Design of Monetary Policy: An Empirical Analysis of Income and Price Determination in Nonclearing Markets pp. 1133-42

- J David Ferguson and William R Hart
- The Effect of Increased Longevity on Capital Accumulation pp. 1143-50

- Jonathan Skinner
- Purchasing Power Parity Did Not Collapse during the 1970's pp. 1151-58

- Nurhan Davutyan and John Pippenger
- Speeding, Coordination, and the 55 MPH Limit pp. 1159-64

- Charles A Lave
- Identification by Disaggregation pp. 1165-67

- Matthew J Cushing and Mary G McGarvey
- Race, Recent Entry, and Labor Market Participation pp. 1168-77

- Eugene Silberberg
- Testing Noncooperative Bargaining Theory: A Preliminary Study pp. 1178-80

- K Binmore, A Shaked and J Sutton
- Did the United States Transmit the Great Depression to the Rest of the World? pp. 1181-85

- Gertrud M Fremling
- Technology and Hedging Behavior: A Proof of Hicks' Conjecture pp. 1186-90

- Maureen O'Hara
- Equilibrium Price Dispersion [The Theory of Sales: A Simple Model of Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Identical Agents] pp. 1191-94

- William Hallagan and Wayne Joerding
- The Quality of Schooling: Comment pp. 1195-1201

- Peter J Eaton
- The Quality of Schooling: Reply pp. 1202-05

- Jere Behrman and Nancy Birdsall
- The Economics of Performing Shakespeare: Comment pp. 1206-09

- Edwin G West
- The Economics of Performing Shakespeare: Reply pp. 1210-12

- James H Gapinski
- Can Unemployment Be Involuntary? Comment [Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device] pp. 1213-14

- Lorne Carmichael
- Can Unemployment Be Involuntary? Reply [Equilibrium Unemployemnt as a Worker Discipline Device] pp. 1215-17

- Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz
Volume 75, issue 4, 1985
- Animals' Choices over Uncertain Outcomes: Some Initial Experimental Results pp. 597-613

- Raymond Battalio, John Kagel and Don N MacDonald
- Unemployment Rate Dynamics and Persistent Unemployment under Rational Expectations pp. 614-37

- Michael Darby, John C Haltiwanger and Mark W Plant
- Labor and Output over the Business Cycle: Some Direct Evidence pp. 638-55

- Jon A Fay and James Medoff
- An Economic Interpretation of the History of Congressional Voting in the Twentieth Century pp. 656-75
- Sam Peltzman
- Short-run Equilibrium Dynamics of Unemployment Vacancies, and Real Wages pp. 676-90

- Christopher Pissarides
- International Trade and Labor Migration pp. 691-707

- Wilfred Ethier
- Can Small Deviations from Rationality Make Significant Differences to Economic Equilibria? pp. 708-20

- George Akerlof and Janet Yellen
- Employment Tenure and Earnings Profiles in Japan and the United States pp. 721-35

- Masanori Hashimoto and John Raisian
- Notches pp. 736-47

- Alan Blinder and Harvey Rosen
- Searching for Leviathan: An Empirical Study pp. 748-57

- Wallace Oates
- Industry Structure with Fluctuating Demand pp. 758-67

- David Mills and Laurence Schumann
- Modeling the Formation of Price Expectations: A Bayesian Approach pp. 768-76

- John Caskey
- Precautionary Saving and Accidental Bequests pp. 777-91

- Andrew Abel
- A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory pp. 792-805

- William T Dickens and Kevin Lang
- Unbalanced Growth Revisited: Asymptotic Stagnancy and New Evidence pp. 806-17

- William Baumol, Sue Anne Batey Blackman and Edward Wolff
- Labor Market Costs of Language Disparity: An Interpretation of Hispanic Earnings Differences pp. 818-27

- Walter McManus
- Equilibrium Relationships between Money and Other Economic Variables pp. 828-35

- James Lothian
- The Market for "Lemons" Reconsidered: A Model of the Used Car Market with Asymmetric Information pp. 836-43

- Jae-Cheol Kim
- A Note on the General Validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem pp. 844-49

- Helmut Forstner
- Screening vs. Rationing in Credit Markets with Imperfect Information pp. 850-55

- Helmut Bester
- The Conformity of Wage-Indexation Models with "Stylized Facts." pp. 856-61

- Gary Fethke
- Auctions with Contingent Payments pp. 862-65

- Robert G Hansen
- Inconsistent Equilibrium Constructs: The Evenly Rotating Economy of Mises and Rothbard pp. 866-69

- Tyler Cowen and Richard Fink
- Price Discrimination and Social Welfare pp. 870-75

- Hal Varian
- Controlling Contradictions among Regulations: Note pp. 876-77

- Chris T Hendrickson and Francis Clay McMichael
- Fair Outcome-Fair Process [Applied Fairness Theory and Rationing Policy] pp. 878-80

- Robert Piron
- Another Look at Free Banking in the United States [New Evidence on the Free Banking Era] pp. 881-85

- James Kahn
- New Evidence on Free Banking in the United States [New Evidence on the Free Banking Era] pp. 886-89

- Hugh Rockoff
- Eqilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device: Comment pp. 890-91

- Clive Bull
- Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device: Reply pp. 892-93

- Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz
- Capacity, Output, and Sequential Entry: Comment pp. 894-96

- Stanley S Reynolds
- Capacity, Output, and Sequential Entry: Reply pp. 897-98

- Daniel Spulber
Volume 75, issue 3, 1985
- What Will Take the Con out of Econometrics? pp. 293-307

- Michael McAleer, Adrian Pagan and Paul A Volker
- Sensitivity Analyses Would Help pp. 308-13
- Edward Leamer
- An Experimental Test of the Consistent-Conjectures Hypothesis pp. 314-25

- Charles Holt
- Rational Expectations and the Limits of Rationality: An Analysis of Heterogeneity pp. 326-40

- John Haltiwanger and Michael Waldman
- Do Markets Differ Much? pp. 341-51

- Richard Schmalensee
- A Theory of Contractual Structure in Agriculture pp. 352-67

- Mukesh Eswaran and Ashok Kotwal
- Oil Field Unitization: Contractual Failure in the Presence of Imperfect Information pp. 368-85

- Steven N Wiggins and Gary Libecap
- Anticipated Devaluations, Currency Flight, and Direct Trade Controls in a Monetary Economy pp. 386-401
- Robert Feenstra
- Optimal Wage Indexation, Foreign Exchange Intervention, and Monetary Policy pp. 402-23

- Joshua Aizenman and Jacob A Frenkel
- Network Externalities, Competition, and Compatibility pp. 424-40

- Michael Katz and Carl Shapiro
- Asymmetric Information and Collusive Behavior in Auction Markets pp. 441-60

- Jonathan Feinstein, Michael K Block and Frederick C Nold
- Unemployment Duration and Incidence: 1968-82 pp. 461-72

- Hal Sider
- The Advantages of Being First pp. 473-80

- Amihai Glazer
- Internal Migration and Urban Employment in the Third World pp. 481-94

- William E Cole and Richard D Sanders
- Accounting Rates of Return pp. 495-504

- Gerald L Salamon
- Urban Land Prices under Uncertainty pp. 505-14

- Sheridan Titman
- A Note on Equity and Efficiency in the Pricing of Local Telephone Services pp. 515-18

- Edward Renshaw
- Women, Work, and Divorce pp. 519-23

- William Sander
- Money, Anticipated Changes, and Policy Effectiveness pp. 524-29

- Richard G Sheehan
- Inflation and Reputation pp. 530-38

- David Backus and Edward Driffill
- The Competitive Effects of Vertical Agreements? pp. 539-46

- William S Comanor and Harry Frech
- Enlistments in the All-Volunteer Force: Note pp. 547-51

- Charles Dale and Curtis Gilroy
- Is There an Operational Interest Rate Rule? pp. 552-56

- Michael Dotsey
- U.S. Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate: Comment [A Critical Appraisal of McKinnon's World Money Supply Hypothesis] pp. 557-59

- Steven Ambler and Ronald McKinnon
- U.S. Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate: Reply [A Critical Appraisal of McKinnon's World Money Supply Hypothesis] pp. 560-61

- Henry N Goldstein and Stephen E Haynes
- The Money Supply Announcements Puzzle: Comment pp. 562-64

- Barry Falk and Peter Orazem
- The Money Supply Announcements Puzzle: Reply pp. 565-66

- Bradford Cornell
- Fisher's Paradox: Comment [Fisher's Paradox and the Theory of Interest] pp. 567-68

- Patrick Honohan
- Fisher's Paradox: Reply [Fisher's Paradox and the Theory of Interest] pp. 569-70

- Jeffrey Carmichael and Peter W Stebbing
- Predictable Behavior: Comment [The Origin of Predictable Behavior] pp. 571-75

- Richard Bookstaber and Joseph Langsam
- Predictable Behavior: Comment [The Origin of Predictable Behavior] pp. 576-78

- Roger W Garrison
- Predictable Behavior: Reply [The Origin of Predictable Behavior] pp. 579-85

- Ronald A Heiner
Volume 75, issue 2, 1985
- Economics in Theory and Practice pp. 1-14
- Alec Cairncross
- Post-entry Competition in the Plain Paper Copier Market pp. 15-19

- Timothy Bresnahan
- R&D Appropriability, Opportunity, and Market Structure: New Evidence on Some Schumpeterian Hypotheses pp. 20-24

- Richard C Levin, Wesley M Cohen and David C Mowery
- Patent Licensing and R&D Rivalry pp. 25-30

- Carl Shapiro
- Nominal Wage-Price Rigidity as a Rational Expectations Equilibrium pp. 31-35

- Costas Azariadis and Russell Cooper
- Wage Flexibility in the United States: Lessons from the Past pp. 36-40

- Daniel J B Mitchell
- Profit Sharing as Macroeconomic Policy pp. 41-45

- Martin Weitzman
- The Regulatory Transition pp. 46-51

- John R Meyer and William B Tye
- "Let Them Make Toll Calls": A State Regulator's Lament pp. 52-56

- Roger Noll
- Intercity Transportation Route Structures under Deregulation: Some Assessments Motivated by the Airline Experience pp. 57-61

- Steven A Morrison and Clifford Winston
- Macroeconomic Stability and Flexible Exchange Rates pp. 62-67

- John Bilson
- Reflections on the Exchange Rate System pp. 68-73
- J Carter Murphy
- On the System in Bretton Woods pp. 74-79

- John Williamson
- Computer Applications in Pre-college Economics pp. 80-84

- John M Sumansky
- Macro Simulations for PCs in the Classroom pp. 85-90

- Karl Case and Ray Fair
- Cost Effectiveness of Computer-assisted Economics Instruction pp. 91-96

- Darrell R Lewis, Bruce R Dalgaard and Carol M Boyer
- Legislative Construction of the Monetary Control Act of 1980 pp. 97-102

- Timberlake, Richard H,
- Deregulation and Monetary Reform pp. 103-07

- Leland B Yeager
- Speculation, Deregulation, and the Interest Rates pp. 108-13

- Leonard A Rapping and Lawrence B Pulley
- 1985 Projections of the New York Metropolitan Region Study pp. 114-19

- Dick Netzer
- Long-term Forecasts in International Economics pp. 120-26

- William Cline
- The Economic Thought of George Orwell pp. 127-32

- Jennifer Roback
- Hamlet without the Prince: Cambridge Macroeconomics without Money pp. 133-39

- Jan Kregel
- Cambridge Price Theory: Special Model or General Theory of Value? pp. 140-45

- Bertram Schefold
- Joan Robinson's Critique of Equilibrium: An Appraisal pp. 146-49

- E Roy Weintraub
- Auction Theory with Private Values pp. 150-55

- Eric Maskin and Joan G Riley
- Empirical Testing of Auction Theory pp. 156-59

- Robert G Hansen
- Experimental Development of Sealed-Bid Auction Theory: Calibrating Controls for Risk Aversion pp. 160-65

- James Cox, Vernon L Smith and James Walker
- Modes of Thought in Economics and Biology pp. 166-72

- Paul A Samuelson
- The New Economics of Labor Migration pp. 173-78

- Oded Stark and David Bloom
- New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births pp. 179-84

- James J Heckman, V Joseph Hotz and James Walker
- International Debt: From Crisis to Recovery? pp. 185-90

- William Cline
- Latin American Debt: Lessons and Pending Issues pp. 191-95
- Eduardo Wiesner
- Data and Econometricians-The Uneasy Alliance pp. 196-200

- Zvi Griliches
- The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests pp. 201-05

- Deirdre McCloskey
- Macroeconometric Modeling and the Theory of the Representative Agent pp. 206-10

- John Geweke
- An Integrated Accounting Matrix for Canada and the United States pp. 211-16

- Jacob Cohen and Steven Husted
- Modeling U.S.-Mexico Economic Linkages pp. 217-22

- Clark W Reynolds and Robert K McCleery
- New Developments in Project LINK pp. 223-27

- Lawrence Klein
- The Influence of Hymer's Dissertation on the Theory of Foreign Direct Investment pp. 228-32
- John H Dunning and Alan Rugman
- Multinational Enterprise, Internal Governance, and Industrial Organization pp. 233-38

- David Teece
- Hymer and Public Policy in LDCs pp. 239-44
- Donald J Lecraw
- Religion and the Earnings Function pp. 245-50

- Nigel Tomes
- Cultural Differences in Labor Force Participation among Married Women pp. 251-55

- Cordelia W Reimers
- Peddlers Forever? Culture, Competition, and Discrimination pp. 256-61
- William Darity and Rhonda M Williams
- Women Production Workers: Low Pay and Hazardous Work pp. 262-65

- Janis Barry
- Executive Compensation: Female Executives and Networking pp. 266-70

- Robin L Bartlett and Timothy I Miller
- Longitudinal Changes at a Large Public University: What Response to Equal Pay Legislation? pp. 271-74

- Sharon Bernstein Megdel and Michael Ransom
- Sex Role Socialization and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 275-78

- Mary E Corcoran and Paul Courant
- Pacific Protagonist-Implications of the Rising Role of the Pacific pp. 279-84
- Staffan Burenstam Linder
- Is There Need for Economic Leadership? Japanese or U.S.? pp. 285-91

- W W Rostow
- Human Fallibility and Economic Organization pp. 292-97

- Raaj Kumar Sah and Joseph Stiglitz
- Learning from Experience in Organizations pp. 298-302

- Scott R Herriott, Daniel Levinthal and James G March
- Informational Structure of the Firm pp. 303-07

- Kenneth Arrow
- State and Industry in France, 1750-1914 pp. 308-14
- Caglar Keyder
- French Industrial Policy under the Socialist Government pp. 315-19

- Bela Balassa
- Economic History: A Necessary Thought Not Sufficient Condition for an Economist: Maine and Texas pp. 320-23

- Kenneth Arrow
- Is History Stranger than Theory? The Origin of Telephone Separations pp. 324-27

- Peter Temin and Geoffrey Peters
- Economic History and Economics pp. 328-31

- Robert Solow
- Clio and the Economics of QWERTY pp. 332-37

- Paul David
- Portfolio Choice and the Debt-to-Income Relationship pp. 338-43

- Benjamin M Friedman
- Stability and Instability in the Debt-Income Relationship pp. 344-50

- Robert Pollin
- Private Credit Demand, Supply, and Crunches-How Different Are the 1980's? pp. 351-56

- Albert M Wojnilower
- Macroeconomic Analysis of Leading Interwar Authorities: Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board pp. 357-62

- L Dwight Israelsen
- Rudolf Hilferding: The Dominion of Capitalism and the Dominion of Gold pp. 363-68

- William Darity and Bobbie L Horn
- Korekiyo Takahashi and Japan's Recovery from the Great Depression pp. 369-74

- Dick K Nanto and Shinji Takagi
- Financial Risk and the Burden of Contracts pp. 375-80

- Herman B Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
- Are Individuals Bayesian Decision Makers? pp. 381-85

- W Viscusi
- Ambiguity and Insurance Decisions pp. 386-90
- Robin M Hogarth and Howard Kunreuther
- Origin of Predictable Behavior: Further Modeling and Applications pp. 391-96

- Ronald A Heiner
- Individual Rationality, Market Rationality, and Value Estimation pp. 397-402

- Peter Knez, Vernon L Smith and Arlington Williams
- Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Behavior pp. 403-08

- Keith D Wilde, Allen D LeBaron and L Dwight Israelsen
- The Changing Environment of Central Bank Policy pp. 409-13

- Alexandre Lamfalussy
Volume 75, issue 1, 1985
- Microeconomic Efficiency and Nominal Wage Stickiness pp. 1-15
- Charles L Schultze
- The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models pp. 16-36

- Samuel Bowles
- The Validity of Profits-Structure Studies with Particular Reference to the FTC's Line of Business Data pp. 37-67

- George J Benston
- Do Large Deficits Produce High Interest Rates? pp. 68-87
- Paul Evans
- Transaction Costs in the Theory of Unemployment pp. 88-100

- Peter Howitt
- The Demand for Unobservable and Other Nonpositional Goods pp. 101-16

- Robert Frank
- Fiscal Policy and Aggregate Demand pp. 117-27

- David Aschauer
- General Equilibrium Computations of the Marginal Welfare Costs of Taxes in the United States pp. 128-38

- Charles Ballard, John B Shoven and John Whalley
- The Use of Protection and Subsidies for Entry Promotion and Deterrence pp. 139-52

- Avinash Dixit and Albert Kyle
- A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Economic Growth and Transfers on Poverty pp. 153-61

- Peter Gottschalk and Sheldon Danziger
- A Theory of Two-Tier Labor Markets in Agrarian Economies pp. 162-77

- Mukesh Eswaran and Ashok Kotwal
- The Relative Inefficiency of Quotas: The Cheese Case pp. 178-90

- James Anderson
- Testing for the Effectiveness of Wage-Price Controls: An Application to the Carter Program pp. 191-207
- John B Hagens and R Robert Russell
- Stardom and Talent pp. 208-12

- Moshe Adler
- Advertising and Economic Welfare pp. 213-18

- Len M Nichols
- Oligopoly and the Incentive for Horizontal Merger pp. 219-27

- Martin K Perry and Robert Porter
- Military Enlistments: What Can We Learn from Geographic Variation? pp. 228-34
- Charles Brown
- Paying for Public Inputs pp. 235-38

- Richard Manning, James Markusen and John McMillan
- Excess Labor and the Business Cycle pp. 239-45
- Ray Fair
- Monopoly Unionism: Note pp. 246-49

- Daniel Leonard
- Why Everything Takes 2.71828... Times as Long as Expected pp. 250-52

- Philip Musgrove
- The Design of an Optimal Insurance Policy: Note pp. 253-55

- George Blazenko
- A Further Comment on Preemptive Patenting and the Persistence of Monopoly pp. 256-58
- Jonathan Cave
- A Curse on Several Houses pp. 259
- Boris P Pesek
- Experimental Economics: Comment pp. 260-63

- Ronald A Heiner
- Experimental Economics: Reply pp. 264-72

- Vernon L Smith
- Experimental Economics: Comment pp. 264
- Daniel Friedman
- Relative Prices, Concentration, and Money Growth: Comment pp. 273-78

- Daniel Richards
- Relative Prices, Concentration, and Money Growth: Reply pp. 279-80
- Henry Chappell and John Addison
- Relative Risk Aversion in Comparative Statics: Comment pp. 281-83

- Eric Briys and Louis Eeckhoudt
- Relative Risk Aversion in Comparative Statics: Comment pp. 284-85

- John D Hey
- Relative Risk Aversion in Comparative Statics: Reply pp. 286-87

- Eliakim Katz
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