The Journal of Economic Perspectives

 

Volume 14, Number 3, Summer 2000

Articles

• The Political Economy of the Budget Surplus in the United States,  by Alberto Alesina

• Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy,  by John B. Taylor

• The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers,  by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel Feenberg

• Should America Save for its Old Age? Fiscal Policy, Population Aging, and National saving,  by Douglas W. Elmendorf and Louise M. Sheiner

• The Sports Business as a Labor Market Laboratory,  by Lawrence M. Kahn

• The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities,  by John Siegfried and Andrew Zimbalist

• Economic Analysis of Social Interactions,  by Charles F. Manski

• Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms,  by Elinor Ostrom

• Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity,  by Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

• Vickrey Auctions in Practice: From Nineteenth-Century Philately to Twenty-First-Century E-Commerce,  by David Lucking-Reiley

• In Honor of Kevin M. Murphy: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal,  by Finis Welch

• Policy Watch: The Tyranny of Budget Forecasts,  by J.D. Foster and James C. Miller III

• History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World,  by Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Stanley L. Engerman

Features

• Recommendations for Further Reading,  by Bernard Saffran

• Corrections