Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

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Volume 33, issue 4, 2019

What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency? pp. 3-26

Janet Currie and Reed Walker

Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act pp. 27-50

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? pp. 51-75

David A. Keiser and Joseph Shapiro

On Latin American Populism, and Its Echoes around the World pp. 76-99

Sebastian Edwards

Informational Autocrats pp. 100-127

Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

The Surge of Economic Nationalism in Western Europe pp. 128-51

Italo Colantone and Piero Stanig

Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered pp. 152-70

Yotam Margalit

What They Were Thinking Then: The Consequences for Macroeconomics during the Past 60 Years pp. 171-86

George Akerlof

The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare pp. 187-210

Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years pp. 211-28

Brett M. Frischmann, Alain Marciano and Giovanni Ramello

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 229-36

Timothy Taylor

Volume 33, issue 3, 2019

Are Price-Cost Markups Rising in the United States? A Discussion of the Evidence pp. 3-22

Susanto Basu

Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions pp. 23-43

Chad Syverson

Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization pp. 44-68

Steven Berry, Martin Gaynor and Fiona Scott Morton

Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets pp. 69-93

Carl Shapiro

The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google pp. 94-117

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory: A Mutual Interview pp. 118-43

Alvin Roth and Robert Wilson

A Bridge from Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice pp. 144-62

Joshua B. Miller and Adam Sanjurjo

A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation pp. 163-84

Nicholas Bloom, John van Reenen and Heidi Williams

How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips pp. 185-201

Michael Elsby and Gary Solon

Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence pp. 202-27

Hunt Allcott, Benjamin Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky

Retrospectives: Lord Keynes and Mr. Say: A Proximity of Ideas pp. 228-42

Alain Beraud and Guy Numa

Some Journal of Economic Perspectives Articles Recommended for Classroom Use pp. 243-48

Timothy Taylor

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 249-56

Timothy Taylor

Volume 33, issue 2, 2019

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor pp. 3-30

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction pp. 31-50

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb

"Automation" of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study pp. 51-70

Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo and Paul Rhode

The Rise of Robots in China pp. 71-88

Hong Cheng, Ruixue Jia, Dandan Li and Hongbin Li

Ten Years after the Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research? pp. 89-114

Valerie Ramey

Rising Government Debt: Causes and Solutions for a Decades-Old Trend pp. 115-40

Pierre Yared

Effects of Austerity: Expenditure- and Tax-Based Approaches pp. 141-62

Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men pp. 163-90

Ariel Binder and John Bound

When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men pp. 191-210

Courtney Coile and Mark Duggan

The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men pp. 211-28

Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin and Robert Francis

Retrospectives: Ricardo on Machinery pp. 229-42

Samuel Hollander

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 243-50

Timothy Taylor

Volume 33, issue 1, 2019

Women in Economics: Stalled Progress pp. 3-22

Shelly Lundberg and Jenna Stearns

Variation in Women's Success across PhD Programs in Economics pp. 23-42

Leah Boustan and Andrew Langan

Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Strategies for Making Economics Work for Women at Every Stage pp. 43-60

Kasey Buckles

Financial Regulation: Still Unsettled a Decade after the Crisis pp. 61-80

Daniel K. Tarullo

Prone to Fail: The Pre-crisis Financial System pp. 81-106

Darrell Duffie

Would Macroprudential Regulation Have Prevented the Last Crisis? pp. 107-30

David Aikman, Jonathan Bridges, Anil Kashyap and Caspar Siegert

The Value of US Government Data to US Business Decisions pp. 131-46

Ellen Hughes-Cromwick and Julia Coronado

On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics pp. 147-64

Hugh Rockoff

Evolving Measurement for an Evolving Economy: Thoughts on 21st Century US Economic Statistics pp. 165-84

Ron Jarmin

Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution pp. 185-208

Spencer Banzhaf, Lala Ma and Christopher Timmins

Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies pp. 209-30

Susan Athey and Michael Luca

Parag Pathak: Winner of the 2018 Clark Medal pp. 231-46

Ariel Pakes and Joel Sobel

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 247-54

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 4, 2018

An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science pp. 3-32

Solomon Hsiang and Robert Kopp

Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change pp. 33-52

Maximilian Auffhammer

The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions pp. 53-72

Kenneth Gillingham and James H. Stock

Is This Tax Reform, or Just Confusion? pp. 73-96

Joel Slemrod

Measuring the Effects of Corporate Tax Cuts pp. 97-120

Alan Auerbach

Outside the Box: Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Great Recession and Beyond pp. 121-46

Kenneth N. Kuttner

Unconventional Monetary Policies in the Euro Area, Japan, and the United Kingdom pp. 147-72

Giovanni Dell'ariccia, Pau Rabanal and Damiano Sandri

Ending Global Poverty: Why Money Isn't Enough pp. 173-200

Lucy Page and Rohini Pande

Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries pp. 201-26

Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken

Retrospectives: On the Genius Behind David Ricardo's 1817 Formulation of Comparative Advantage pp. 227-40

Daniel M. Bernhofen and John C. Brown

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 241-48

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 3, 2018

What Happened: Financial Factors in the Great Recession pp. 3-30

Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist

Finance and Business Cycles: The Credit-Driven Household Demand Channel pp. 31-58

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Identification in Macroeconomics pp. 59-86

Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

The State of New Keynesian Economics: A Partial Assessment pp. 87-112

Jordi Galí

On DSGE Models pp. 113-40

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Mathias Trabandt

Evolution of Modern Business Cycle Models: Accounting for the Great Recession pp. 141-66

Patrick Kehoe, Virgiliu Midrigan and Elena Pastorino

Microeconomic Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Shocks pp. 167-94

Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante

Compensation and Incentives in the Workplace pp. 195-214

Edward P. Lazear

Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning pp. 215-38

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier

The Changing (Dis-)utility of Work pp. 239-58

Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects pp. 259-80

Michael Bailey, Rachel Cao, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel and Arlene Wong

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 281-88

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 2, 2018

The US Gains from Trade: Valuation Using the Demand for Foreign Factor Services pp. 3-24

Arnaud Costinot and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

Alternative Sources of the Gains from International Trade: Variety, Creative Destruction, and Markups pp. 25-46

Robert Feenstra

New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment pp. 47-72

Teresa Fort, Justin Pierce and Peter K. Schott

What Do Trade Agreements Really Do? pp. 73-90

Dani Rodrik

Modeling Risk Aversion in Economics pp. 91-114

Ted O'Donoghue and Jason Somerville

On the Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preference pp. 115-34

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Are Risk Preferences Stable? pp. 135-54

Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

Risk Preference: A View from Psychology pp. 155-72

Rui Mata, Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp and Ralph Hertwig

Space, the Final Economic Frontier pp. 173-92

Matthew Weinzierl

Dave Donaldson: Winner of the 2017 Clark Medal pp. 193-208

Daron Acemoglu

Retrospectives: Adam Smith's Discovery of Trade Gravity pp. 209-22

Bruce Elmslie

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 223-30

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 1, 2018

The Economic Implications of Housing Supply pp. 3-30

Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

Homeownership and the American Dream pp. 31-58

Laurie S. Goodman and Christopher Mayer

Sand Castles before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities pp. 59-80

Gabriel Metcalf

Friedman's Presidential Address in the Evolution of Macroeconomic Thought pp. 81-96

N. Gregory Mankiw and Ricardo Reis

Should We Reject the Natural Rate Hypothesis? pp. 97-120

Olivier Blanchard

Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Milton Friedman's Presidential Address pp. 121-34

Robert Hall and Thomas Sargent

Exchange-Traded Funds 101 for Economists pp. 135-54

Martin Lettau and Ananth Madhavan

Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care? pp. 155-78

Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein

Do Economists Swing for the Fences after Tenure? pp. 179-94

Jonathan Brogaard, Joseph Engelberg and Edward Van Wesep

Retrospectives: Cost-Push and Demand-Pull Inflation: Milton Friedman and the "Cruel Dilemma" pp. 195-210

Johannes Schwarzer

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 211-18

Timothy Taylor