The American Economist

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Volume 62, issue 2, 2017

Negative Interest pp. 139-148

Thorvaldur Gylfason

Jürg Niehans and the Cashless Economy pp. 149-164

Joshua Hendrickson

Defining Productivity in Education: Issues and Illustrations pp. 165-183

Eric Hanushek and Elizabeth Ettema

Not All Education Is Created Equal: How Choice of Academic Major Affects the Racial Salary Gap pp. 184-205

David McClough and Mary Ellen Benedict

Poverty and Student Achievement in Chicago Public Schools pp. 206-216

Lisa Breger

Optimal Public Policy Against Identity Theft pp. 217-221

Philip Graves and Robert L. Sexton

American Exceptionalism: An Appraisal—Political, Economic, Qualitative, and Quantitative pp. 222-246

Lall B. Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg

High-Impact Teaching in Economics: A Flexible Paradigm Utilizing Introductory Econometrics for Promoting Undergraduate Research and Publishing pp. 247-257

Richard Cebula

Elasticity as Relative Slopes: A Graphical Approach to Linking the Concepts of Elasticity and Slope pp. 258-267

Xudong Chen

Book Review: Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, by Goetzmann, W. N pp. 268-269

Michael J. Highfield

Book Review: International handbook of financial literacy, by Aprea, C., Wuttke, E., Breuer, K., Koh, N.K., Davies, P., Greimel-Fuhrmann, B., & Lopus, J.S. (Eds.) pp. 270-272

Jamie Wagner

Book Review: Ethics in Economics: An Introduction to Moral Frameworks, by Wight, J pp. 272-275

Ramzi Mabsout

Reviewer List pp. 276-277

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Volume 62, issue 1, 2017

Coauthors and Collaborations pp. 3-18

Ronald Ehrenberg

Financial Depth and Exchange Rate Volatility pp. 19-30

Massomeh Hajilee and Omar M. Al Nasser

Fiscal Deficit and Economic Growth in Bangladesh pp. 31-42

Ebney Ayaj Rana and Abu N. M. Wahid

Shutdown Decision of Firms Based on Variable Costs and Demand pp. 43-65

Hakan Uslu and Larry Teeter

Copper Theft in the United States pp. 66-76

Craig Depken and E. Frank Stephenson

An Efficiency Evaluation of Men’s College Basketball Coaches pp. 77-98

Ira Horowitz

Football Point Spreads pp. 99-101

Ladd Kochman, Ken Gilliam and Randy Goodwin

Economic Education Retrospective pp. 102-117

Carlos Asarta, Austin S. Jennings and Paul Grimes

Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Required and Recommended for Admission to Economics PhD Programs in the United States pp. 118-125

Martin Milkman and Riza Marjadi

Book Review: Fortune tellers: The story of America’s first economic forecasters, by Friedman, W. A pp. 126-128

Alexander E. Cassuto

Book Review: Peru: Staying the course of economic success, by Santos, A., & Werner, A. (Eds.) pp. 128-131

Claudia Sícoli Pósleman

Book Review: Game theory in action: An introduction to classical and evolutionary models, by Schecter, S., & Gintis, H pp. 131-133

Alan P. Grant

Volume 61, issue 2, 2016

The Michael Szenberg Prize for the Best Article Published by The American Economist pp. 139-139

Paul Grimes

An Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics pp. 140-156

John Harvey

The Greatest Externality Story (N)ever Told pp. 157-177

James McClure and Tyler Watts

Teaching and Learning Alternatives to a Comparative Advantage Motivation for Trade pp. 178-190

James Self and William Becker

College Textbook Publishing pp. 191-203

Bob Carbaugh

The 10 Greatest Films for Teaching Economics pp. 204-216

G. Dirk Mateer, Brian O’Roark and Kim Holder

Laissez-Colbert pp. 217-228

Gregory Randolph

Emerging Growth Economies in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 229-244

Kiertisak Toh

How Do Government Employees Influence Election Outcomes pp. 245-262

Brian Dwight Baugus and George Diemer

Examining Two of Keynes’s Most Popular Statements—Wasteful Public Spending Can Be Acceptable, and, In The Long Run We Are All Dead—Yields Some Surprising Implications pp. 263-267

William Beranek and David R. Kamerschen

Book Review: How the other half banks: Exclusion, exploitation, and the threat to democracy, by Baradaran, M pp. 268-269

Stephen K. Lacewell

Book Review: Success and luck: Good fortune and the myth of meritocracy pp. 270-272

Mark Wilson

Book Review: How economics shapes science pp. 272-273

Ishuan Li

Volume 61, issue 1, 2016

Editor’s Note pp. 3-3

Paul Grimes

Looking Back pp. 4-20

Paul Grimes

Reflections On Economic Development pp. 21-29

Evsey D. Domar

Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 30-43

Milton Friedman

Smith vs. Marx on Business Morality and the Social Interest pp. 44-51

William Baumol

Resources and Economic Growth pp. 52-60

Robert Solow

My Life Philosophy pp. 61-68

Paul Samuelson

The Walters-Lawson Affair and the Two Worlds of Communication pp. 69-71

Michael Szenberg

Institutions and Economic Theory pp. 72-76

Douglass North

What Do Economists Know? pp. 77-80

Thomas Schelling

How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time pp. 81-90

Hal R. Varian

The Comparative Study of Public Economies pp. 91-107

Elinor Ostrom

Paul Samuelson on His 90th Birthday pp. 108-109

John Kenneth Galbraith

Edifying Editing pp. 110-118

Randolph McAfee

Omicron Delta Epsilon Chapter Roll pp. 119-134

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The Irving Fisher Article Award for Economics Graduate Students pp. 135-135

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The Frank W. Taussig Article Award for Economics Undergraduates pp. 136-136

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