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Volume 27, issue 2, 1983

Editorial Note pp. 3-3

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My Life Philosophy pp. 5-12

Paul Samuelson

R&D, Innovation and Environmental Regulation: The Case of Copper pp. 13-20

Robert S. Lurie

On the Determinants of Public Education Expenditures pp. 21-28

Stephen Nord

Demand for Medical Services by Deprived Urban Youth in North and South America pp. 29-33

John P. Walter and William H. Leahy

On the Stability of Commodity Cartels pp. 34-36

Frederick I. Johnson

The Incidence of Household-Based Taxes: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey pp. 37-41

Steven M. Rock

The Theory of Risk Aversion and Liquidity Preference: A Geometric Exposition pp. 42-49

Gabriel Hawawini

An Empirical Test of the Effect of Social Security on Fertility in the United States pp. 50-57

Steve Swidler

Inflation and the Rationality of Investing in Projects with Negative Net Present Values pp. 58-66

Michael G. Angel and Thomas O. Nitsch

Implications of Production Functions: Yugoslav Economic Growth—1952–1974 pp. 67-73

Sherman R. Sullivan

The Effect of Deregulating Crude Oil Prices on the Pump Price of Gasoline: A Comment pp. 74-76

Paul Nelson

A Note on the Stability Requirements in Disequilibrium States pp. 77-79

Emad Zikry

On the Long-Run Effects of Manuscript Submission Fees: A Comment pp. 80-81

Pat Joyce and Tom Merz

On the Long-Run Effects of Manuscript Submission Fees-Reply to Joyce and Merz pp. 82-82

James Koch and Richard Cebula

Control of Inflation in a Small, Open Economy: A Comment pp. 83-85

Michael Howard

The Economist as a Consultant: A Note pp. 86-88

R. P. Mendels

Book Review: The Dragon and the Bear: China and Russia in the Eighties pp. 89-91

Daniel R. Hall

Book Review: World Steel in the 1980's: A Case of Survival pp. 89-89

Daniel R. Hall

Book Review: Finance and Development: The Role of International Commercial Banks in the Third World pp. 91-92

Sandra L. Snow

Volume 27, issue 1, 1983

Leverage, Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate and Industry Equilibrium pp. 5-12

Nitzan Weiss

Taxation of Capital Gains and the Behavior of Stock Prices over the Dividend Cycle pp. 13-22

Dan Palmon and Uzi Yaari

“A Cost Effectiveness Evaluation of the Federal/State Vocational Rehabilitation Program—Using a Comparison Group†pp. 23-29

Laura Nowak

The Periodic Table of the Neoclassical Paradigm pp. 30-36

Thomas E. Holland

Leisure-Income Indifference Curves and the Laffer Curve pp. 37-39

Edward Shapiro

The Demand for Money in a Developing Money Market: The Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago pp. 40-46

Michael Howard

A Mathematician's Brief Excursion into Economic History—The Concept of ARC Elasticity of Demand pp. 47-53

John E. Morrill

Product Liability: Who Should Bear the Burden? pp. 54-57

Deborah E. Eisman

Economics as a Science: Some Theoretical Aspects pp. 58-60

O. T. Brookins

Student Housing and Discrimination: An Empirical Approach pp. 61-68

Thomas A. Gray

A Further Note on the Aggregate Supply Function pp. 69-70

W. Robert Brazelton

A Syllabus for Macrodynamics pp. 71-78

Michael Darby

Macroeconomic Theory: Income Determination pp. 79-86

William Branson

Book Review: Community and Capital in Conflict: Plant Closings and Job Loss pp. 87-87

Linda E. Friedman

Book Review: Our Overloaded Economy: Inflation, Unemployment, and the Crises in American Capitalism pp. 87-89

John L. Bungum

Chapter Roll pp. 90-96

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Volume 26, issue 2, 1982

Basic Issues in Econometrics: Past and Present pp. 5-10

Arnold Zellner

The Determinants of the Labor Force Participation Rate of Prime Age Males: A Study across Communities pp. 11-16

Robert J. Gitter

Factors Affecting the Demand for Higher Education at Public Institutions pp. 17-24

J. M. Rives and G. W. Cassidy

The Kinked-Demand Model of Oligopoly: Textbook Departures from the Original Sweezy Model pp. 25-32

Surendra K. Kaushik and William L. Casey

A Note on the Applicability of Using Market Economy Variables to Assess East-West Trade Flows pp. 33-38

Roger J. Robinson

Workers, Capitalists, and Environmental Policy: An Economic Analysis pp. 39-45

Richard W. England

The Expectation Formation Behavior of the Inventory-Holding Firm pp. 46-54

Sherry S. Atkinson

Tax Incidence in a Neoclassical Growth Model with Variable Factor Supply pp. 55-58

Kanhaya L. Gupta

A Proof That All Binary Relations Which are Asymmetric are Also Anti-Symmetric: A Note pp. 59-60

Bernd P. Luedecke

Those Empty Boxes: A Comment pp. 61-63

James M. Rock

Those Empty Boxes: Reply pp. 64-65

Thomas E. Holland

Differential White-Nonwhite Migration Sensitivities to Income Differentials: An Exploratory Note: A Comment pp. 66-67

Ki R. Shim

Differential White-Nonwhite Migration Sensitivities to Income Differentials: An Exploratory Note—Reply pp. 68-68

Richard Cebula

Managerial Discretion in the Labor Managed Firm: A Note pp. 69-70

J. M. Golden

A Survey of Course Reading Materials in Economics of Developing Countries in Universities in Canada and the United States of America pp. 71-75

Tadiboyina Venkateswarlu

Reading Lists in Economic Development M.I.T pp. 76-83

R. S. Eckaus and L. Taylor

Economic Development Theory (Graduate Course): University of Windsor pp. 83-86

Z. M. Fallenbuchl

Book Review: The Lending Policy of the World Bank in the 1970's: Analysis and Evaluation pp. 87-88

Tom Smith and Tahany Naggar

Book Review: Statistics and Econometrics pp. 87-87

Waldo John Lombardi

Book Review: Future Dimensions of World Food and Population pp. 88-89

Tahany Naggar

Book Review: Principles of Economics: Microeconomics., Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics pp. 89-90

Thomas Hyclak

Book Review: Multinational Banks and Underdevelopment pp. 90-92

David Bruhn

Volume 26, issue 1, 1982

Economic Consequences of the Informational Characteristics of Mass Media pp. 5-10

Steve Wildman

Scale Economies, Newspaper Chains, and Government Policy pp. 11-15

J. N. Dertouzos

The Structural Development of the Motion Picture Industry pp. 16-27

David Waterman

Topics in the Economics of Media pp. 28-29

Stephen Kagann

The Curious Case of the Journal Manuscript Market: Ethics versus Efficiency in Academe pp. 30-34

James Koch and Richard Cebula

Economics of Education: The Development of a Sub-Discipline pp. 35-42

K. A. Frenzel and D. J. McCready

Attitudes and Work Performance among Young Men during the Transition from School to Work pp. 43-50

Roger S. Frantz

Balanced Employment Stimulation by Government Spending in a Recession pp. 51-56

Emanuel S. Burstein

Evidence for Determining the Optimal Mechanism for Providing Collective Goods pp. 57-61

Gregory B. Christainsen

Economics of Habits—A Systems Perspective pp. 62-66

K. K. Fung

Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball: Hopefully a Final Comment pp. 67-68

Benjamin S. Meyer

The Differential Impact in Competition and Monopoly of a Change in Costs in Price and Quantity: A Further Comment pp. 69-70

Osvaldo Schenone

Exchange-Elasticity Conditions Governing Instability and the Terms of Trade: A Pedagogical Simplification pp. 71-72

Edwin R. Carlisle

The Deregulation of Urban Taxicab Markets: A Note pp. 73-76

Patricia Buckley

A Survey of Macroeconomics Course Reading Materials in Universities in Canada and the United States of America pp. 77-81

Tadiboyina Venkateswarlu

Book Review: The Labor Relations Process pp. 82-83

Sahab Dayal

Book Review: The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment. 1960–1975 pp. 82-82

Asher Z. Markowitz

Book Review: Latin America and the New International Economic Order pp. 83-85

Marlene L. Rossman

Chapter Roll pp. 86-91

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