American Economic Review
1969 - 2025
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Volume 68, issue 6, 1978
- The Age of Substitutability pp. 1-11
- H E Goeller and Alvin M Weinberg
- An Opponent-Process Theory of Motivation pp. 12-24

- Richard L Solomon and John D Corbit
Volume 68, issue 5, 1978
- A Model of the Southern African-Type Economy pp. 743-55

- Richard C Porter
- Optimal Tax Schedules and Rates: Mirrlees and Ramsey pp. 756-68

- Robert D Cooter
- Fixed Rules vs. Activism in the Conduct of Monetary Policy pp. 769-83

- Roger Craine, Arthur Havenner and James Berry
- Factor Abundance and Comparative Advantage pp. 784-800

- Jon P Harkness
- Anticipated Inflation and Interest Rates: Further Interpretation of Findings on the Fisher Equation pp. 801-12

- Maurice Levi and John Makin
- A Calculus Approach to the Theory of the Core of an Exchange Economy pp. 813-20

- Leif Johansen
- Inflation, Hedging, and the Demand for Money pp. 821-33

- C F J Boonekamp
- The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Temporary Layoff Unemployment pp. 834-46

- Martin Feldstein
- Rural Wages, Labor Supply, and Land Reform: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis pp. 847-61

- Mark Rosenzweig
- Time in School: The Case of the Prudent Patron pp. 862-72

- Thomas Johnson
- The Estimation of Labor Supply Models Using Experimental Data pp. 873-87

- Keeley, Michael C, et al
- Public Utility Pricing under Risk: The Case of Self-Rationing pp. 888-95

- John C Panzar and David S Sibley
- A Generalized Model of Spatial Competition pp. 896-908

- Dennis Capozza and Robert Van Order
- Fixed Wages, Layoffs, Unemployment Compensation, and Welfare pp. 909-17

- Heraklis M Polemarchakis and Laurence Weiss
- Biased Screening and Discrimination in the Labor Market pp. 918-22

- George Borjas and Matthew S Goldberg
- Derived Demand and Distributive Shares in a Multifactor Multisector Model pp. 923-28

- David Bigman
- Determining the Monetary Instrument: A Diagrammatic Exposition pp. 929-34

- Stephen LeRoy and David E Lindsey
- Do Managers Use Their Information Efficiently? pp. 935-37

- Steven Shavell
- Cartel Problems: Comment pp. 938-41

- David Mills and Kenneth Elzinga
- Cartel Problems: Comment pp. 942-46

- William L Holahan
- Cartel Problems: Reply pp. 947-49

- D K Osborne
- International Trade, Factor-Market Distortions, and the Optimal Dynamic Subsidy: Comment pp. 950-55

- James Cassing and Jack Ochs
- International Trade, Factor-Market Distortions, and the Optimal Dynamic Subsidy: Reply pp. 956-59

- Harvey Lapan
- The Genetic Determination of Income: Comment pp. 960-69

- Arthur Goldberger
- What We Learn from Estimating the Genetic Contribution to Inequality in Earnings: Reply pp. 970-76

- Paul Taubman
- Income Transfers as a Public Good: Comment pp. 977-81

- Southwick, Lawrence,
- Income Transfers as a Public Good: Comment pp. 982-84

- Bradley R Schiller
- Income Transfers as a Public Good: Comment pp. 985-89

- Hugh Spall
- Income Transfers as a Public Good: Reply pp. 990-94

- Larry L Orr
Volume 68, issue 4, 1978
- American Indian Relative Ranching Efficiency pp. 503-16

- Ronald L Trosper
- Optimal Pricing of Local Telephone Service pp. 517-37

- Bridger M Mitchell
- Endogenous Bias in Technical Progress and Environmental Policy pp. 538-46

- Roger McCain
- Empirical Tests of the Life Cycle Hypothesis pp. 547-60

- Betsy Buttrill White
- Vertical Integration: The Monopsony Case pp. 561-70

- Martin K Perry
- Market Behavior with Demand Uncertainty and Price Inflexibility pp. 571-87

- Dennis Carlton
- Market and Shadow Land Rents with Congestion pp. 588-600

- Richard Arnott and James MacKinnon
- Devaluation, Wealth Effects, and Relative Prices pp. 601-13

- Harvey Lapan and Walter Enders
- A Theory of Pricing under Decreasing Costs pp. 614-24

- John R Sorenson, John Tschirhart and Andrew B Whinston
- Gold, Dollars, Euro-Dollars, and the World Money Stock under Fixed Exchange Rates pp. 625-42

- Alexander K Swoboda
- Equilibrium in an Imperfect Market: A Constraint on the Number of Securities in the Portfolio pp. 643-58

- Haim Levy
- On the Almost Total Inadequacy of Keynesian Balance-of-Payments Theory pp. 659-70

- Edward A Kuska
- Dynamic Stability and the Theory of Factor-Market Distortions pp. 671-82

- J. Peter Neary
- Optimal Rewards for Economic Regulation pp. 683-91

- Martin Weitzman
- Security Price Changes and Transaction Volumes: Additional Evidence pp. 692-95

- Mark Hanna
- Security Price Changes and Transaction Volumes: Comment pp. 696-97

- Meir I Schneller
- Security Price Changes and Transaction Volumes: Reply pp. 698-700

- Thomas W Epps
- The Long-Run Analysis of the Labor-Managed Firm: Comment pp. 701-05

- K V Berman and M D Berman
- The Long-Run Analysis of the Labor-Managed Firm: Reply pp. 706-09

- Eirik G Furubotn
- The Value of Human Life in the Demand for Safety: Comment pp. 710-11

- Philip J Cook
- The Value of Human Life in the Demand for Safety: Comment pp. 712-16

- M W Jones-Lee
- The Value of Human Life in the Demand for Safety: Extension and Reply pp. 717-20

- Bryan C Conley
- Inflation in Britain: A Monetarist Perspective: Comment pp. 721-25

- George Fane
- Inflation in Britain: A Monetarist Perspective: Reply pp. 726-29

- David Laidler
- Externalities, Extortion, and Efficiency: Comment pp. 730-35

- Daniel Bromley
- Externalities, Extortion, and Efficiency: Reply pp. 736-38

- George Daly and J. Giertz
Volume 68, issue 3, 1978
- The Technology of Risk and Return pp. 241-51

- Edward Greenberg, William J Marshall and Jess B Yawitz
- Self-Financing of an R&D Project pp. 252-61

- Morton I Kamien and Nancy L Schwartz
- Bargaining Theory, Wage Outcomes, and the Occurrence of Strikes: An Econometric Analysis pp. 262-71

- Henry S Farber
- The Effects of a Firm's Investment and Financing Decisions on the Welfare of Its Security Holders pp. 272-84

- Eugene Fama
- Welfare Evaluation and the Cost-of-Living Index in the Household Production Model pp. 285-99

- Robert Pollak
- Uncertain Externalities, Liability Rules, and Resource Allocation pp. 300-310

- Peter H Greenwood and Charles A Ingene
- Production, Efficiency, and Welfare in the Natural Gas Transmission Industry pp. 311-23

- Jeffrey L Callen
- On the Optimal Provision of Journals qua Sometimes Shared Goods pp. 324-38

- Janusz A Ordover and Robert Willig
- Unfulfilled Long-Term Interest Rate Expectations and Changes in Business Fixed Investment pp. 339-47

- John C Warner
- Estimation of Complete Demand Systems from Household Budget Data: The Linear and Quadratic Expenditure Systems pp. 348-59
- Robert Pollak and Terence J Wales
- Why Women Earn Less: The Theory and Estimation of Differential Overqualification pp. 360-73

- Robert Frank
- Optimal Investment Strategy for Boomtowns: A Theoretical Analysis pp. 374-85
- Ronald G Cummings and William D Schulze
- Money, Saving, and Portfolio Choice under Uncertainty pp. 386-88
- Eliakim Katz and Alfred Vanags
- The Golden Rule and the Role of Government in a Life Cycle Growth Model pp. 389-96

- Toshihiro Ihori
- Vertical Integration, Tying, and Antitrust Policy pp. 397-402
- Roger D Blair and David L Kaserman
- Dynamic Models of Portfolio Behavior: More on Pitfalls in Financial Model Building pp. 403-09

- Douglas Purvis
- Dynamic Models of Portfolio Behavior: Comment on Purvis pp. 410-16

- Gary Smith
- On Extortion: A Reply pp. 417-18
- Harold Demsetz
- Market Efficiency in an Arrow-Debreu Economy: A Closer Look pp. 419-22
- Kose John
- Money, Income, and Causality in the United States and the United Kingdom: A Theoretical Explanation of Different Findings pp. 423-27

- Bluford H Putnam and D Sykes Wilford
- Currency Substitution, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Monetary Independence pp. 428-36
- Marc A Miles
- The Pure Theory of the Muggery pp. 437-45

- Philip A Neher
- An Econometric Definition of the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff pp. 446-53

- Gregory Chow and Sharon Bernstein Megdal
- Dynamic Instability of a Mixed City in the Presence of Neighborhood Externalities pp. 454-63

- Takahiro Miyao
- The Rest of the World's Offer Curve: Note pp. 464-67
- Wolfgang Mayer
- Factor-Price Uncertainty with Variable Proportions pp. 468-73

- Marion B Stewart
- On the Comparative Statics of a Competitive Industry with Inframarginal Firms pp. 474-78

- John C Panzar and Robert Willig
Volume 68, issue 2, 1978
- Rationality as Process and as Product of Thought pp. 1-16
- Herbert A Simon
- What do Economics Majors Learn? pp. 17-22

- David G Hartman
- Is Economic Anthropology of Interest to Economists? pp. 23-27

- George Dalton
- The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing pp. 28-32

- Clifford Geertz
- Towards a Marriage between Economics and Anthropology and a General Theory of Marriage pp. 33-37

- Shoshana Grossbard
- Unemployment in Capitalist Regulated Market Economies and Socialist Centrally Planned Economies pp. 38-43

- Morris Bornstein
- Unemployment in Western Europe and the United States: A Problem of Demand, Structure, or Measurement? pp. 44-50

- Robert H Haveman
- Unemployment Problems and Policies in Less Developed Countries pp. 51-55

- Henry J Bruton
- Unemployment in Comparative Perspective: Discussion pp. 56-57

- Nancy Smith Barrett
- Multiple Motives, Group Decisions, Uncertainty, Ignorance, and Confusion: A Realistic Economics of the Consumer Requires Some Psychology pp. 58-63

- James N Morgan
- Economics, Psychology, and Protective Behavior pp. 64-69

- Howard Kunreuther and Paul Slovic
- Recent Psychological Studies of Behavior under Uncertainty pp. 70-74

- David Grether
- Psychology and Economics: Discussion pp. 75-76

- George Katona
- Psychology and Economics: Discussion pp. 76-77
- Vernon L Smith
- Sex Differences in Labor Supply Elasticity: The Implications of Sectoral Shifts in Demand pp. 78-83

- Cynthia B Lloyd and Beth Niemi
- Women's Increasing Unemployment: A Cross-Sectional Analysis pp. 84-89
- Christopher Lingle and Ethel B Jones
- Unemployment Rate Targets and Anti-inflation Policy as More Women Enter the Workforce pp. 90-94

- Clair Vickery, Barbara Bergmann and Katherine Swartz
- The Effects of the Increased Labor Force Participation of Women on Macroeconomic Goals: Discussion pp. 95-96

- Barry Chiswick
- The Effects of the Increased Labor Force Participation of Women on Macroeconomic Goals: Discussion pp. 96-97

- Marianne A Ferber
- The Effects of the Increased Labor Force Participation of Women on Macroeconomic Goals: Discussion pp. 97-98
- Ralph E Smith
- Planning for a Resource-Rich Region: The Case of Alaska pp. 99-104

- David T Kresge and Daniel A Seiver
- The Southwest: A Region under Stress pp. 105-09

- Lee Brown and Allen V Kneese
- The New England States and Their Economic Future: Some Implications of a Changing Industrial Environment pp. 110-15

- John R Meyer and Robert A Leone
- Problems of Regional Economic Development: Discussion pp. 116-17

- Walter Isard
- Problems of Regional Economic Development: Discussion pp. 116
- Benjamin Chinitz
- Energy Policy and U.S. Economic Growth pp. 118-23

- Edward A Hudson and Dale Jorgenson
- Energy and Economic Growth: Discussion pp. 124-27

- Bullard, Clark W,
- Energy and Economic Growth: Discussion pp. 124
- Tjalling Koopmans
- Energy and Economic Growth: Discussion pp. 127-28
- William W Hogan
- Energy and Economic Growth: Discussion pp. 128-30
- Lester Lave
- Disembodied Technical Progress: Does Employee Participation in Decision Making Contribute to Change and Growth? pp. 131-34

- Karl-Olof Faxen
- Job Satisfaction as an Economic Variable pp. 135-41

- Richard Freeman
- Psychic Income: Useful or Useless? pp. 142-45

- Lester Thurow
- Quality of Working Life: Discussion pp. 146-47
- Rudy Oswald
- Quality of Working Life: Discussion pp. 147-48
- George Strauss
- The Costs of Inflation pp. 149-54
- Gardner Ackley
- The Private and Social Costs of Unemployment pp. 155-58

- Martin Feldstein
- Stabilization Goals: Balancing Inflation and Unemployment pp. 159-64

- Henry C Wallich
- The Structure of Female Wages pp. 165-70

- Mary Corcoran
- The Improving Economic Status of Black Americans pp. 171-78

- James P Smith
- The Economic Status of Blacks and Whites pp. 179-85

- Marcus Alexis
- Discrimination in Mortgage Lending pp. 186-91

- Harold Black, Robert L Schweitzer and Lewis Mandell
- Differences in Unemployment Experience between Blacks and Whites pp. 192-97

- Charles L Betsey
- Racial Disparities and Policies to Eliminate Them: Discussion pp. 198-99
- Karl D Gregory
- A Partial Survey of Recent Research on the Labor Supply of Women pp. 200-207
- James J Heckman
- Fertility and Child Mortality over the Life Cycle: Aggregate and Individual Evidence pp. 208-15
- T Paul Schultz
- Altruism as an Outcome of Social Interaction pp. 216-22

- Mordecai Kurz
- Bayesian Decision Theory and Utilitarian Ethics pp. 223-28

- John C Harsanyi
- Altruism, Meanness, and Other Potentially Strategic Behaviors pp. 229-30
- Thomas C Schelling
- Economics and Ethics: Altruism, Justice, Power: Discussion pp. 231
- Roger Myerson
- Economics and Ethics: Altruism, Justice, Power: Discussion pp. 231-32
- John C Harsanyi
- The Economy of the Body pp. 233-37
- Michael T Ghiselin
- Competition, Cooperation, and Conflict in Economics and Biology pp. 238-43

- J Hirshleifer
- Economics and Biology: Evolution, Selection, and the Economic Principle: Discussion pp. 244-45

- Ronald Coase
- The Economics of Special Interest Politics: The Case of the Tariff pp. 246-50

- William Brock and Stephen P Magee
- Understanding Collective Action: Matching Behavior pp. 251-55

- Joel M Guttman
- Voters, Legislators and Bureaucracy: Institutional Design in the Public Sector pp. 256-60

- Morris P Fiorina and Roger Noll
- Decentralization, Bureaucracy, and Government: Discussion pp. 261-62

- Daniel McFadden
- Decentralization, Bureaucracy, and Government: Discussion pp. 262-63

- Wallace Oates
- International Markets for LDCs-The Old and the New pp. 264-69

- Carlos F Diaz-Alejandro
- Alternative Trade Strategies and Employment in LDCs pp. 270-74

- Anne O Krueger
- Some Aspects of Technology Transfer and Direct Foreign Investment pp. 275-79

- Ronald Findlay
- International Trade and the Developing Countries: Discussion pp. 280-81

- G C Hufbauer
- International Trade and the Developing Countries: Discussion pp. 281-82
- Ronald McKinnon
- International Trade and the Developing Countries: Discussion pp. 282-83
- Robert Baldwin
- Consumer Product Safety Regulation pp. 284-89
- Henry G Grabowski and John M Vernon
- Egonomics, or the Art of Self-Management pp. 290-94

- Thomas C Schelling
- Safety Decisions and Insurance pp. 295-98

- Martin J Bailey
- Economics of Life and Safety: Discussion pp. 299-300

- Roland N McKean
- Economics of Life and Safety: Discussion pp. 300
- Philip J Cook
- The "Rationality" of Economic Forecasts pp. 301-05

- Stephen K McNees
- An Error Analysis of Econometric and Noneconometric Forecasts pp. 306-12

- Vincent Su
- On the Accuracy and Properties of Recent Macroeconomic Forecasts pp. 313-19

- Victor Zarnowitz
- How Have Forecasts Worked? Discussion pp. 320-21

- Otto Eckstein and Paul M Warburg
- The Business of Business is Serving Markets pp. 322-27

- Joseph L Bower
- On the Basic Proposition of X-Efficiency Theory pp. 328-32

- Harvey Leibenstein
- Efficiency of Managerial Decision Processes: Discussion pp. 333-34

- Richard H Day
- What Can Stabilization Policy Achieve? pp. 335-41
- Robert Gordon
- Labor Market Structure: Implications for Micro Policy pp. 342-47

- Charles C Holt
- Efficient Disinflationary Policies pp. 348-52
- Arthur M Okun
- Unemployment Policy pp. 353-57

- Robert Lucas
- The Invisible Fist: Have Capitalism and Democracy Reached a Parting of the Ways? pp. 358-63

- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
- Markets, States, and the Extent of Morals pp. 364-68

- James Buchanan
- Illusions of Necessity in the Economic Order pp. 369-73

- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Endogenous Tastes in Demand and Welfare Analysis pp. 374-79
- Robert Pollak
- Stochastic Properties of Changing Preferences pp. 380-85

- Edgar A Pessemier
- On the Study of Taste Changing Policies pp. 386-91
- Thomas Marschak
- The Current Experience with Floating Exchange Rates: An Appraisal of the Monetary Approach pp. 392-97

- John Bilson
- New Views of Exchange Rates and Old Views of Policy pp. 398-405

- Peter Kenen
- Monetary vs. Traditional Approaches to Balance-of-Payments Analysis pp. 406-11

- Norman C Miller
- International Exchange Rates and the Macroeconomics of Open Economies: Discussion pp. 412-13

- Rüdiger Dornbusch
- International Exchange Rates and the Macroeconomics of Open Economies: Discussion pp. 413-15
- Jacob A Frenkel
- International Exchange Rates and the Macroeconomics of Open Economies: Discussion pp. 415-16
- Marc A Miles
- Altruism in Law and Economics pp. 417-21
- William Landes and Richard Posner
- Capital Punishment and Homicide in England: A Summary of Results pp. 422-27

- Kenneth I Wolpin
- The Subtle Impact of Price Controls on Domestic Oil Production pp. 428-33
- Rodney T Smith and Charles E Phelps
- Economics and Law: Discussion pp. 434-35

- Stephen Breyer
- Economics and Law: Discussion pp. 435-36
- A. Mitchell Polinsky
Volume 68, issue 1, 1978
- Second Best Pricing with Stochastic Demand pp. 41-53

- Roger Sherman and Michael Visscher
- On the Optimality of Forward Markets pp. 54-66

- Robert Townsend
- The Impact of Demand and Price Expectations on the Behavior of Prices pp. 134-45
- Louis Maccini
- A Model of Agenda Influence on Committee Decisions pp. 146-60
- Charles Plott and Michael Levine
- Graduate Students in Economics, 1940-74 pp. 182-87

- William E Spellman and D Bruce Gabriel
- The Role of Money in a Simple Growth Model: Note pp. 188-93

- William B Marxsen
- Related Market Conditions and Interindustrial Mergers: Comment pp. 221-24

- Martin K Perry
- Input Choices and Uncertain Demand: Comment pp. 231-32
- Wolfgang Mayer
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