Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

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Volume 27, issue 4, 2013

A Century of US Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability pp. 3-16

Ben Bernanke

Central Bank Design pp. 17-44

Ricardo Reis

The Federal Reserve and Panic Prevention: The Roles of Financial Regulation and Lender of Last Resort pp. 45-64

Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick

Shifts in US Federal Reserve Goals and Tactics for Monetary Policy: A Role for Penitence? pp. 65-86

Julio J. Rotemberg

Does the Federal Reserve Care about the Rest of the World? pp. 87-104

Barry Eichengreen

An Interview with Paul Volcker pp. 105-20

Martin Feldstein

Market Reasoning as Moral Reasoning: Why Economists Should Re-engage with Political Philosophy pp. 121-40

Michael J. Sandel

Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics pp. 141-64

Luigino Bruni and Robert Sugden

Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's Early Rise to Riches pp. 165-86

Nico Voigtl?nder and Hans-Joachim Voth

The Economics of Slums in the Developing World pp. 187-210

Benjamin Marx, Thomas Stoker and Tavneet Suri

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 211-18

Timothy Taylor

Correction: The Composition and Drawdown of Wealth in Retirement pp. 219-22

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

Volume 27, issue 3, 2013

The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective pp. 3-20

Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

Defending the One Percent pp. 21-34

N. Gregory Mankiw

It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent pp. 35-56

Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh

The Pay of Corporate Executives and Financial Professionals as Evidence of Rents in Top 1 Percent Incomes pp. 57-78

Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel

Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility pp. 79-102

Miles Corak

Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality? pp. 103-24

Adam Bonica, Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal

What Is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists pp. 125-44

Enrico Spolaore

Political Credit Cycles: The Case of the Eurozone pp. 145-66

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Luis Garicano and Tano Santos

Cross of Euros pp. 167-92

Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor

Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and the Case for Temporary Inflation in the Eurozone pp. 193-212

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

Retrospectives: John Maynard Keynes, Investment Innovator pp. 213-28

David Chambers and Elroy Dimson

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 229-36

Timothy Taylor

Volume 27, issue 2, 2013

The Growth of Finance pp. 3-28

Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein

Finance: Function Matters, Not Size pp. 29-50

John Cochrane

Moore's Law versus Murphy's Law: Algorithmic Trading and Its Discontents pp. 51-72

Andrei Kirilenko and Andrew Lo

An International Look at the Growth of Modern Finance pp. 73-96

Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef

Asset Management Fees and the Growth of Finance pp. 97-108

Burton G. Malkiel

Investing in Preschool Programs pp. 109-32

Greg Duncan and Katherine Magnuson

What Can Be Done to Improve Struggling High Schools? pp. 133-52

Julie Cullen, Steven Levitt, Erin Robertson and Sally Sadoff

Beyond BA Blinders: Lessons from Occupational Colleges and Certificate Programs for Nontraditional Students pp. 153-72

James E. Rosenbaum and Janet Rosenbaum

Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice pp. 173-92

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Latin America's Social Policy Challenge: Education, Social Insurance, Redistribution pp. 193-218

Santiago Levy and Norbert Schady

The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds pp. 219-38

Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 239-46

Timothy Taylor

Volume 27, issue 1, 2013

The Case against Patents pp. 3-22

Michele Boldrin and David Levine

Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History pp. 23-44

Petra Moser

The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators, and Super-Aggregators pp. 45-66

Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie

Of Smart Phone Wars and Software Patents pp. 67-86

Stuart Graham and Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Markets for Pollution Allowances: What Are the (New) Lessons? pp. 87-102

Lawrence H. Goulder

The SO 2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment pp. 103-22

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

Carbon Markets 15 Years after Kyoto: Lessons Learned, New Challenges pp. 123-46

Richard Newell, William Pizer and Daniel Raimi

Moving Pollution Trading from Air to Water: Potential, Problems, and Prognosis pp. 147-72

Karen Fisher-Vanden and Sheila Olmstead

Thirty Years of Prospect Theory in Economics: A Review and Assessment pp. 173-96

Nicholas C. Barberis

The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later pp. 197-222

Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 223-30

Timothy Taylor

Volume 26, issue 4, 2012

From Exxon to BP: Has Some Number Become Better Than No Number? pp. 3-26

Catherine Kling, Daniel Phaneuf and Jinhua Zhao

Contingent Valuation: A Practical Alternative When Prices Aren't Available pp. 27-42

Richard Carson

Contingent Valuation: From Dubious to Hopeless pp. 43-56

Jerry Hausman

The End of Cheap Chinese Labor pp. 57-74

Hongbin Li, Lei Li, Binzhen Wu and Yanyan Xiong

Labor Market Outcomes and Reforms in China pp. 75-102

Xin Meng

Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future pp. 103-24

Xiaodong Zhu

Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China pp. 125-46

Dennis Yang

How Did China Take Off? pp. 147-70

Yasheng Huang

Amy Finkelstein: 2012 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 171-84

Jonathan Levin and James Poterba

Retrospectives: Irving Fisher's Appreciation and Interest (1896) and the Fisher Relation pp. 185-96

Robert Dimand and Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 197-204

Timothy Taylor

Volume 26, issue 3, 2012

A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise? pp. 3-26

Mary Daly, Bart Hobijn, Aysegul Sahin and Robert Valletta

Who Suffers during Recessions? pp. 27-48

Hilary Hoynes, Douglas Miller and Jessamyn Schaller

The European Sovereign Debt Crisis pp. 49-68

Philip Lane

Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes since 1800 pp. 69-86

Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

The Economics of Spam pp. 87-110

Justin M. Rao and David Reiley

Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure pp. 111-36

Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

The New Demographic Transition: Most Gains in Life Expectancy Now Realized Late in Life pp. 137-56

Karen Eggleston and Victor Fuchs

Groups Make Better Self-Interested Decisions pp. 157-76

Gary Charness and Matthias Sutter

Deleveraging and Monetary Policy: Japan since the 1990s and the United States since 2007 pp. 177-202

Kazuo Ueda

The Relationship between Unit Cost and Cumulative Quantity and the Evidence for Organizational Learning-by-Doing pp. 203-24

Peter Thompson

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 225-32

Timothy Taylor

Volume 26, issue 2, 2012

The Journal of Economic Perspectives at 100 (Issues) pp. 3-18

David Autor

The Journal of Economic Perspectives and the Marketplace of Ideas: A View from the Founding pp. 19-26

Joseph Stiglitz

From the Desk of the Managing Editor pp. 27-40

Timothy Taylor

The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade pp. 41-64

Gordon Hanson

Putting Ricardo to Work pp. 65-90

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

Gains from Trade When Firms Matter pp. 91-118

Marc Melitz and Daniel Trefler

Globalization and U.S. Wages: Modifying Classic Theory to Explain Recent Facts pp. 119-40

Jonathan Haskel, Robert Lawrence, Edward Leamer and Matthew J. Slaughter

Why Is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States So High and Why Does It Matter? pp. 141-63

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring pp. 167-88

Filipe Campante and Davin Chor

Using Internet Data for Economic Research pp. 189-206

Benjamin Edelman

Jonathan Levin: 2011 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 207-18

Liran Einav and Steven Tadelis

Retrospectives: The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression pp. 223-36

Jeff Biddle

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 237-44

Timothy Taylor

Volume 26, issue 1, 2012

Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap? pp. 3-28

Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone

Creating a Smarter U.S. Electricity Grid pp. 29-48

Paul Joskow

Prospects for Nuclear Power pp. 49-66

Lucas Davis

The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation pp. 67-92

Severin Borenstein

Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation pp. 93-118

Christopher Knittel

How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World? pp. 119-38

Catherine Wolfram, Orie Shelef and Paul Gertler

The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators? pp. 139-64

David Deming, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much--Or Not Enough? pp. 165-92

Christopher Avery and Sarah Turner

American Higher Education in Transition pp. 193-216

Ronald Ehrenberg

Compensation for State and Local Government Workers pp. 217-42

Maury Gittleman and Brooks Pierce

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 243-50

Timothy Taylor