Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

Current editor(s): Enrico Moretti

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Volume 19, issue 4, 2005

The Vulcanization of the Human Brain: A Neural Perspective on Interactions Between Cognition and Emotion pp. 3-24

Jonathan D. Cohen

Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making pp. 25-42

Shane Frederick

Individual Irrationality and Aggregate Outcomes pp. 43-66

Ernst Fehr and Jean-Robert Tyran

Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals and Misperceptions pp. 67-92

Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer and Todd Sinai

The American Mortgage in Historical and International Context pp. 93-114

Richard Green and Susan Wachter

Accounting for Stock Options pp. 115-134

Jeremy Bulow and John B. Shoven

The Original Management Incentive Schemes pp. 135-144

Richard Holden

A Natural Experiment in Monetary Policy Covering Three Episodes of Growth and Decline in the Economy and the Stock Market pp. 145-150

Milton Friedman

Intelligence Failures: An Organizational Economics Perspective pp. 151-170

Luis Garicano and Richard Posner

The Degradation of Reported Corporate Profits pp. 171-192

Mihir A. Desai

Oil for What?—Illicit Iraqi Oil Contracts and the U.N. Security Council pp. 193-206

Paul Heaton

Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era pp. 207-224

Thomas Leonard

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 225-232

Timothy Taylor

On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy: Response pp. 233-234

Louis Kaplow

Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Comments pp. 233-233

Lawrence H. Goulder, Ian Parry and Roberton Williams

Volume 19, issue 3, 2005

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government—What We Don't Know Could Hurt Us: Some Reflections on the Measurement of Economic Activity pp. 3-18

Katharine Abraham

Eight Questions about Corruption pp. 19-42

Jakob Svensson

Political Selection pp. 43-60

Timothy Besley

Law, Endowments and Property Rights pp. 61-88

Ross Levine

The Constitutional Dilemma of Economic Liberty pp. 89-108

Barry Weingast

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments: On Morals and Why They Matter to a Liberal Society of Free People and Free Markets pp. 109-130

Jerry Evensky

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist pp. 131-145

Nava Ashraf, Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein

Affirmative Action and Its Mythology pp. 147-162

Roland Fryer and Glenn Loury

Dividend Taxation and Corporate Governance pp. 163-180

Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

Steven D. Levitt: 2003 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 181-198

James Poterba

History Lessons: The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the United States Since 1850 pp. 199-215

Joseph P. Ferrie

Policy Watch: Reform of the U.S. Postal Service pp. 217-232

R. Richard Geddes

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 233-240

Timothy Taylor

The Limits of Free Trade: Comment pp. 241-242

Avinash Dixit and Gene Grossman

Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization: Response pp. 242-244

Paul Samuelson

Chairing the Federal Reserve: Comment pp. 244-245

Robert Dimand

Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History: Comment pp. 245-245

Jonathan H. Sunshine

Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting: Correction pp. 245-245

Timothy J. Feddersen

Volume 19, issue 2, 2005

Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions about the Social Security Trust Fund pp. 3-9

James Hines and Timothy Taylor

Saving Social Security pp. 11-32

Peter Diamond and Peter Orszag

Structural Reform of Social Security pp. 33-55

Martin Feldstein

Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach pp. 57-73

Richard Posner

Probabilistic Patents pp. 75-98

Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro

The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond pp. 99-120

Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Copying and Copyright pp. 121-138

Hal Varian

Lessons About Markets from the Internet pp. 139-158

Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire? pp. 159-184

W Frame and Lawrence White

Direct Democracy Works pp. 185-206

John Matsusaka

Data Watch: Tort-uring the Data pp. 207-220

Eric Helland, Jonathan Klick and Alexander Tabarrok

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 221-228

Timothy Taylor

Are We Consuming Too Much? Response pp. 229-230

Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta and Lawrence Goulder

Irreversibility: Comments pp. 229-229

Bernard Wasow

Volume 19, issue 1, 2005

What is Economic Sociology and Should any Economists Care? pp. 3-7

Robert Gibbons

Identity and the Economics of Organizations pp. 9-32

George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton

The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes pp. 33-50

Mark Granovetter

Ecologies of Organizations: Diversity and Identity pp. 51-70

Michael T. Hannan

A Sociological Perspective on Gender and Career Outcomes pp. 71-86

Barbara F. Reskin and Denise D. Bielby

Russian Retrospectives on Reforms from Yeltsin to Putin pp. 87-106

Padma Desai

Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union pp. 107-130

Elizabeth Brainerd and David Cutler

The Role of Oligarchs in Russian Capitalism pp. 131-150

Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky

A Normal Country: Russia After Communism pp. 151-174

Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman

The Making of an Economist Redux pp. 175-198

David Colander

Child Labor in the Global Economy pp. 199-220

Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik

Data Watch: The American Time Use Survey pp. 221-232

Daniel Hamermesh, Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 233-240

Bernard Saffran

Weather and the Salem Witch Trials: Comments pp. 241-242

Franklin Mixon

Rationality and Voting: Comments pp. 242-243

Philip Jones and John Hudson

Antitrust Enforcement: Comments pp. 243-243

Jonathan B. Baker