Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

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Volume 54, issue 4, 2016

Is the WTO Passé? pp. 1125-1231

Kyle Bagwell, Chad Bown and Robert W. Staiger

Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer pp. 1232-87

Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix

Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement pp. 1288-1332

John Roemer and Alain Trannoy

Immigration Economics by George J. Borjas: A Review Essay pp. 1333-49

David Card and Giovanni Peri

The Crisis in Economic Theory: A Review Essay pp. 1350-61

Kevin D. Hoover

Male Is a Gender, Too: A Review of Why Gender Matters in Economics by Mukesh Eswaran pp. 1362-76

Julie Nelson

Ontology, Methodological Individualism, and the Foundations of the Social Sciences pp. 1377-89

Robert Sugden

Volume 54, issue 3, 2016

Contagion in Financial Networks pp. 779-831

Paul Glasserman and H. Peyton Young

The Econometrics of Matching Models pp. 832-61

Pierre-André Chiappori and Bernard Salanié

State and Development: The Need for a Reappraisal of the Current Literature pp. 862-92

Pranab Bardhan

Understanding African Poverty over the Longue Durée: A Review of Africa's Development in Historical Perspective pp. 893-905

Margaret McMillan

Review of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism by Christine Desan pp. 906-21

William Roberds

Current Federal Reserve Policy under the Lens of Economic History: A Review Essay pp. 922-34

Stephen Williamson

Review of Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences by Carles Boix pp. 935-41

Alberto Alesina

Volume 54, issue 2, 2016

The New Economics of Religion pp. 395-441

Sriya Iyer

The Economics of Privacy pp. 442-92

Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis Taylor and Liad Wagman

The Characterological Imperative: On Heckman, Humphries, and Kautz's The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life pp. 493-513

Robert J. Sampson

Review Essay on British Economic Growth, 1270-1870 by Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M. S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen pp. 514-21

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Review of Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion Edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen pp. 522-33

Paola Giuliano

Complexity and Economic Policy: A Paradigm Shift or a Change in Perspective? A Review Essay on David Colander and Roland Kupers's Complexity and the Art of Public Policy pp. 534-72

Alan Kirman

A Review Essay on GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle pp. 573-88

Moshe Syrquin

Volume 54, issue 1, 2016

Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Trade-Off pp. 3-51

Peter Arcidiacono and Michael Lovenheim

Regulatory Races: The Effects of Jurisdictional Competition on Regulatory Standards pp. 52-97

Bruce G. Carruthers and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

The Economics of Temporary Migrations pp. 98-136

Christian Dustmann and Joseph-Simon Görlach

Why Organizations Fail: Models and Cases pp. 137-92

Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

A Quantitative Review of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family by Carbone and Cahn pp. 193-207

Kirsten Cornelson and Aloysius Siow

The Politics of Financial Development: A Review of Calomiris and Haber's Fragile by Design pp. 208-23

Peter Rousseau

Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution? pp. 224-39

Cormac Ó Gráda

Volume 53, issue 4, 2015

A Long Way Coming: Designing Centralized Markets with Privately Informed Buyers and Sellers pp. 857-97

Simon Loertscher, Leslie Marx and Tom Wilkening

Culture and Institutions pp. 898-944

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld's The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America pp. 945-60

Shelly Lundberg

Immigration and Globalization: A Review Essay pp. 961-74

George Borjas

Stress for Success: A Review of Timothy Geithner's Financial Crisis Memoir pp. 975-95

Gary Gorton

The Cambridge History of "Capitalism" pp. 996-1016

Peter Temin

Volume 53, issue 3, 2015

Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present pp. 503-70

Dora Costa

The Beveridge Curve: A Survey pp. 571-630

Michael Elsby, Ryan Michaels and David Ratner

Communicating Uncertainty in Official Economic Statistics: An Appraisal Fifty Years after Morgenstern pp. 631-53

Charles Manski

A Review of The Age of Sustainable Development by Jeffrey Sachs pp. 654-66

Matthew Kahn

Learning from Failure: A Review of Peter Schuck's Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better pp. 667-74

David Levy and Sandra J. Peart

Volume 53, issue 2, 2015

The Industrial Organization of Health-Care Markets pp. 235-84

Martin Gaynor, Kate Ho and Robert Town

Research on Teaching Economics to Undergraduates pp. 285-325

Sam Allgood, William B. Walstad and John Siegfried

Revisiting Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis pp. 326-50

Roger Backhouse

Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights pp. 351-59

Kevin Lang

Volume 53, issue 1, 2015

Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for an Emerging Field pp. 5-42

Michael Greenstone and B. Kelsey Jack

Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s Collected Papers on Monetary Theory pp. 43-64

Thomas Sargent

Jon Elster's Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections: A Review Essay pp. 65-78

David Austen-Smith

The Science, Economics, and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Review of The Climate Casino by William Nordhaus pp. 79-91

Adam Jaffe and Suzi Kerr

A Review of William Easterly's The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor pp. 92-101

Carol Graham

A Review of Angus Deaton's The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality pp. 102-14

David Weil

Volume 52, issue 4, 2014

News-Driven Business Cycles: Insights and Challenges pp. 993-1074

Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier

Behavioral Contract Theory pp. 1075-1118

Botond Koszegi

Strategy in History and (versus?) in Economics: A Review of Lawrence Freedman's Strategy: A History pp. 1119-34

Avinash Dixit

The Ethics of Efficient Markets and Commons Tragedies: A Review of John Broome's Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World pp. 1135-41

William Nordhaus

What's the Future of Public Higher Education? A Review Essay on Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano's Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America's Public Universities pp. 1142-50

Ronald Ehrenberg

A Review of Peter Temin's The Roman Market Economy pp. 1151-59

Francois Velde

Volume 52, issue 3, 2014

The Macroeconomics of Trend Inflation pp. 679-739

Guido Ascari and Argia M. Sbordone

What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature pp. 740-98

Melissa Dell, Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken

Review Essay on Charles F. Manski's Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions pp. 799-804

John Geweke

The New Science of Cities by Michael Batty: The Opinion of an Economist pp. 805-19

Jacques Thisse

The Limits of Inference with Theory: A Review of Wolpin (2013) pp. 820-50

John Rust

Volume 52, issue 2, 2014

The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property: A Review pp. 375-423

Bronwyn Hall, Christian Helmers, Mark Rogers and Vania Sena

Addressing Global Environmental Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations pp. 424-79

Gary D. Libecap

The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care: An International Perspective pp. 480-518

Mark Stabile and Sarah Thomson

The Return of "Patrimonial Capitalism": A Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century pp. 519-34

Branko Milanovic

Volume 52, issue 1, 2014

The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence pp. 5-44

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History behind China's Economic Boom pp. 45-123

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas Rawski

Empirical Evidence on Inflation Expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve pp. 124-88

Sophocles Mavroeidis, Mikkel Plagborg-Moller and James H. Stock

A Flourishing Economist: A Review Essay on Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change pp. 189-96

Joel Mokyr

Rethinking the Principles of Bank Regulation: A Review of Admati and Hellwig's The Bankers' New Clothes pp. 197-210

Roger Myerson