Content
May 1978, Volume 21, Issue 2
- 61-65 The Failure of the Minimum Wage Law
by James F. Ragan - 65-69 Youth, Work, and Unemployment
by Paul Osterman - 70-71 Letters
by The Editors - 72-72 For Further Reading
by The Editors
March 1978, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 3-5 Anniversaries
by The Editors - 7-9 Education, Efficiency, and Productivity
by Carolyn Shaw Bell - 9-10 Economists and the Real World
by Barbara R. Bergmann - 11-13 Successes and Failures
by Kenneth E. Boulding - 13-16 The Strategic Role of Capital Formation
by Andrew F. Brimmer - 16-17 The Missing Link(s)
by Robert L. Heilbroner - 18-19 Open Letter to G. William Miller
by Walter W. Heller - 20-21 The Next Decade
by Robert Lekachman - 22-30 Observations on Some Worldwide Economic Issues of the Coming Years
by Wassily Leontief - 31-32 Sportsmanship and Public Policy
by George W. McKinney - 33-34 Stop the Self-Inflicted Wounds
by Arthur M. Okun - 34-36 The Parametric Function of Exchange Rates in a Market Economy
by Robert V. Roosa - 37-38 Policy Advising in Economics
by Paul A. Samuelson - 39-40 The Public Discussion of Economics: Some Pitfalls
by Robert M. Solow - 40-41 A Free Market Approach to Economic Policy
by Murray L. Weidenbaum - 42-43 A Selection of Drawings by Virgona
by The Editors - 44-53 Uphill All the Way
by William W. Winpisinger - 54-55 A Selection of Drawings by Solman
by The Editors - 56-59 Reflections on the U.S. Balance of Payments
by Henry C. Wallich - 59-61 Myth, Reality, Equity, and the Social Security System
by James N. Morgan - 62-64 The Growlery
by Joan Robinson - 64-65 At Home
by Lawrence R. Klein - 65-67 Abroad
by Gunnar Myrdal - 67-69 Washington
by Charles L. Schultze - 69-71 Portrait
by Kenneth J. Arrow - 72-75 The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed by Anthony Sampson
by Alva Myrdal - 75-80 Toward a Planned Society: From Roosevelt to Nixon by Otis L. Graham, Jr
by Broadus Mitchell & Melville J. Ulmer
January 1978, Volume 20, Issue 6
- 3-4 From the Editor
by The Editors - 5-13 Economic Planning and Policies in Norway
by Eivind Erichsen - 14-21 Natural Resources and Environmental Restrictions to Growth
by Edward S. Mason - 22-27 The Soviet Economic Slowdown
by Abram Bergson - 28-33 The Labor Market: Matching up the Statistics and the Realities
by Julius Shiskin - 34-39 Wall Street’s Mindless Affair with Tight Money
by Sidney Weintraub - 40-44 Stagnation and the “New Protectionism”
by Melvyn B. Krauss - 45-50 Women’s and Welfare Reform
by Arnold H. Packer & Nancy M. Gordon & Jodie T. Allen & Nancy M. Gordon - 51-54 The Prospects for U.S.-Cuba Trade
by Andrew Zimbalist - 55-57 The Growlery
by Stanley Kaish - 57-58 At Home
by Amitai Etzioni - 58-59 Abroad
by Sir Alan Cottrell - 59-60 Washington
by Leon H. Keyserling - 61-63 Portrait
by B.A. Corry - 64-65 The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics by Alfred S. Eichner
by Luigi Pasinetti - 66-68 Letters
by The Editors
November 1977, Volume 20, Issue 5
- 2-5 From the Editor
by The Editors - 6-13 The Great Stagflation Swamp
by Arthur M. Okun - 14-22 Welfare Reform and Social Insurance
by Alvin L. Schorr - 23-34 Can We Revitalize Our Cities?
by James S. Coleman - 35-42 What Is to Be Done?
by George Perry & Melville J. Ulmer & Henry C. Wallich - 43-49 Basic Data and Economic Policy
by Carolyn Shaw Bell - 50-55 World Gains in Family Planning
by Lester R. Brown & Bruce Stokes - 56-59 A New Farm and Food Law
by Harold F. Breimyer - 60-61 The Growlery
by Melvyn B. Krauss - 61-62 At Home
by Julian L. Simon - 63-66 Abroad
by Paul Streeten - 66-67 Washington
by Henry Reuss - 67-69 Portrait
by Joan Robinson - 70-72 Late Capitalism by Ernest Mandel
by Robert L. Heilbroner & Edward J. Nell
September 1977, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 3-5 From the Editor:
by The Editors - 6-13 How Recession Feeds Inflation: Price Markups in a Concentrated Economy
by Howard M. Wachtel & Peter D. Adelsheim - 14-19 Stagflation–Its Cause and Cure
by Abba P. Lerner - 20-23 How Large Is the Welfare Class?
by Martin Rein & Lee Rainwater - 24-28 Protecting the Consumer
by Carol Foreman - 29-33 A Continuing Audit of Government Economic Statistics
by Geoffrey H. Moore - 34-43 Chicago Economics in Chile
by Michael Moffitt - 44-47 Let’s Create Wealth, Not Allocate Shortages
by Walter B. Wriston - 48-52 How the Rich Can Help the Poor
by Robert Lekachman - 53-54 The Growlery
by Paul Davidson - 54-55 At Home
by John A. Brittain - 55-56 Abroad
by Gustav Ranis - 57-58 Washington
by Alicia H. Munnell - 58-59 Portrait
by James Tobin - 60-61 The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies & The World They Shaped by Anthony Sampson; The Control of Oil by John M. Blair; The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest by Robert Engler
by The Editors - 62-63 The Promise of Greatness by Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart
by Oscar A. Ornati - 64-64 Letters
by Carl Hamilton
July 1977, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 3-5 From the Editor
by The Editors - 6-12 Tales of a Onetime Tariff Commissioner
by Mespenelope Hartland-Thunberg - 13-19 The US. Aircraft Industry: A Case for Sectoral Planning
by Jacques S. Gansler - 20-28 The Dilemmas of Soviet Oil Policy
by Marshall I. Goldman - 29-33 Work and the Welfare State
by Sar A. Levitan - 34-40 What Makes Exchange Rates Move?
by Henry C. Wallich - 41-45 Jobs and Services: Toward a Labor-Intensive Economy
by Herbert J. Gans - 46-49 Subsidizing Disaster: Federal Policy on Water Development
by Charles Warren - 50-51 The Growlery
by Ann Hewlett Sylvia - 52-53 At Home
by George Katona - 54-55 Abroad
by Melvyn B. Krauss - 55-57 Washington
by Arnold E. Safer - 57-59 Portrait
by Trygve Haavelmo - 59-61 The Game of Disarmament by Alva Myrdal
by Victor Lebow - 61-64 The Future of the World Economy Prepared by a Research Team Led by Wassily Leontief, Anne P. Carter and Peter Petri; RIO—Reshaping the International Order: A Report to the Club of Rome by Jan Tinbergen, Coordinator, Antony J. Dolman, Editor, Jan van Ettinger, Director
by The Editors
May 1977, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 3-5 From the Editor:
by The Editors - 6-12 Industrial Relations, Labor Economics, and Policy Decisions
by John T. Dunlop - 13-21 National Health Insurance: Canada's Path, America's Choices
by Theodore R. Marmor & Edward Tenner - 22-32 Institutionalism, Keynes, and the Real World
by Wallace C. Peterson - 33-39 The Costs of Discrimination
by Kenneth B. Clark - 40-47 Monetarism and the Threat of a World Financial Crisis
by Thomas Balogh - 48-52 Chronic Inflation in Latin America
by Felipe Pazos - 53-55 Economic Inventions: The Prelude to Theory
by S.M. Miller - 56-59 The Case for Incrementalism
by Richard P. Nathan - 60-62 The Growlery
by Sol S. Shalit - 62-63 At Home
by Edward J. Nell - 64-66 Abroad
by Guillaume Guindey - 66-67 Washington
by Sar A. Levitan & Robert Taggart - 67-68 Portrait
by Egon Matznbr - 69-71 The Arena of International Finance by Charles A. Coombs
by Peter B. Kenen - 71-73 Letters to the Editor
by The Editors
March 1977, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 3-4 From the Editor
by The Editors - 6-12 Adam Smith's Relevance for Today
by Milton Friedman - 13-19 The Anarchy of Policy-Making toward Less Developed Countries
by Sidney Weintraub - 20-27 The Financial Instability Hypothesis: An Interpretation of Keynes and an Alternative to“Standard” Theory
by Hyman P. Minsky - 28-35 Some Dilemmas of Economic Policy
by Paul A. Samuelson - 36-43 The Implications of Zero Economic Growth
by Lester C. Thurow - 44-49 The Northern Tier and the Sunbelt: Conflict or Cooperation?
by Carol L. Jusenius & Larry C. Ledebur - 50-52 The Nobel Prize in Economic Science
by Myrdal Gunnar - 52-55 Mining the Deep Seabed
by Danny M. Leipziger - 56-59 The Growlery
by E.J. Mishan - 59-61 At Home
by William J. Stull - 61-62 Abroad
by Lawrence J. Brainard - 62-64 Washington
by Joseph M. Bonin & John B. Legler - 64-65 Portrait
by John Eatwell - 66-67 The Economists by Leonard Silk; Ethics and Profits: The Crisis of Confidence in American Business by Leonard Silk and David Vogel
by Benjamin Ward - 68-72 Letters
by The Editors
January 1977, Volume 19, Issue 6
- 3-5 Advising Carter and Congress
by The Editors - 7-7 Strategies for National Growth and Development
by The Editors - 9-10 Preface
by Arnold A. Saltzman - 11-13 Recommendations of the Committee
by The Editors - 14-20 America in a Changing World
by The Editors - 21-24 An American Approach to Planning
by The Editors - 25-30 Existing Policy Institutions
by The Editors - 31-34 The National Growth and Development Commission
by The Editors - 35-39 The Executive Office of the President
by The Editors - 40-43 The Center for Statistical Policy and Analysis
by The Editors - 44-47 The Congress
by The Editors - 48-52 Public Participation in the Federal Policy-Making Process
by The Editors - 53-56 Intergovernmental/Territorial Dimensions of National Growth and Development
by The Editors - 57-61 Materials and Commodities Policy
by The Editors - 61-64 Individual Committee Members’ Views
by The Editors - 64-65 Selected Bibliography
by The Editors - 65-65 Acknowledgments
by The Editors
November 1976, Volume 19, Issue 5
- 3-5 The Last Chronicle of Barset
by The Editors - 6-11 Seven Principles of Social Insurance
by Martin S. Feldstein - 12-18 The Railway Industry–Where Next?
by John F. Due - 19-24 Do Steel Producers Administer Prices?
by J. Fred Weston & Edward M. Rice - 25-29 Project LINK: Linking National Economic Models
by Lawrence R. Klein - 30-33 The Effect of Declining Population Growth on Housing Demand
by Thomas C. Marcin - 34-36 Consumer Product Safety
by Richard D. Grundy - 36-37 Issues in Safety and Health Regulation
by Robert Stewart Smith - 37-38 Regulating Work Hazards: What Should OSHA’s Role Be?
by Russell F. Settle - 39-42 Regulating Occupational Health and Safety: The Real Issues
by Nicholas A. Ashford - 42-43 Recent Developments in the Regulation of Electric Utilities
by Alfred E. Kahn - 44-46 Transportation Regulation
by John R. Meyer - 47-48 The Regulation of Telecommunications: Pandora’s Telephone Box
by Leonard Waverman - 48-51 Deregulating the Brokerage Industry
by H. Michael Mann - 51-52 Bank Regulation at the Federal Level
by William Proxmire - 53-54 The Growlery
by Bradley R. Schiller - 54-55 At Home
by Leonard Silk - 55-57 The Tenable Range of Canadian Nationalism
by D. A. L. Auld - 57-58 Washington
by Jacob K. Javits - 59-60 Portrait
by Walter Eltis - 61-63 Economic Planning, East and West
by Lynn Turgeon - 63-64 Letters
by The Editors
September 1976, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 3-4 Apologia Pro Vita Mea
by The Editors - 6-12 Welfare, Poverty, and Jobs: A Practical Approach
by Brock Adams - 13-20 International Payoffs: Where We Are and How We Got There
by Yerachmiel Kugel & Gladys Gruenberg - 21-23 The Case Against the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill
by Murray L. Weidenbaum - 24-31 Manpower and Economic Policy
by Eli Ginzberg - 32-34 Women and Children on Their Own
by Isabel V. Sawhill - 35-40 The Economic Policy of the Italian Communist Party
by Alberto Martinelli - 41-43 Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
by Victor Lebow - 43-44 The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
by Leo Marx - 44-46 Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? by Peter Temin
by Hyman P. Minsky - 46-47 The Joyless Economy by Tibor Scitovsky
by E. J. Mishan - 48-49 a Study in Economic Theory and Policy
by G. D. N. Worswick - 49-51 Uncontrollable Spending for Social Services Grants by Martha Derthick; a Symposium on the Role of European Parliaments in Budgetary Decisions
by Robert W. Gilmer - 51-53 Analysis and Antitrust Implications ; Antitrust, Regulation, and Public Enterprise
by John J. McGowan - 53-54 Promoting Competition in Regulated Markets by Almarin Phillips
by Robert W. Harbeson - 55-56 An Oil Import Policy for the United States ; Higher Oil Prices and the World Economy by Edward Fried and Charles Schultze; The Making of a New Economic Order
by Peter R. Odell - 57-58 The Growth of Families Headed by Women ; Women in the Professions by Laurily Keir Epstein
by Shirley B. Johnson - 58-59 Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S. Economy
by Neil M. Singer - 60-61 Health Care Financing in the United States ; Benefits, Costs and Consequences
by Alan L. Sorkin - 61-62 The Political Economy of Africa by Richard Harris; Special Reference to General Motors in South Africa
by Bethuel Setai - 62-63 China’s Changing Role in the World Economy by Bryan G. Garth; China’s Modern Economy in Historical Perspective by Dwight H. Perkins
by Tong-eng Wang - 64-64 Letters
by Laurence Fenninger
July 1976, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 3-5 How to Plan the Economy
by Murray L. Weidenbaum - 6-11 National Economic Planning: Methods and Problems
by Wassily Leontief - 12-20 A New OPEC in Bauxite
by C. Fred Bergsten - 21-24 The Independence of the Federal Reserve System
by Arthur F. Burns - 25-28 The Economic Recovery
by Alan Greenspan - 29-33 Some Observations on the Economics of Women's Liberation
by Ronald L. Oaxaca - 34-38 Taxing the Brain Drain
by Jagdish N. Bhagwati - 39-43 A New Approach to the Control of Inflation
by Laurence S. Seidman - 44-46 National Health Insurance: We Can’t Afford to Have It
by Melvin A. Glasser - 47-49 New Fashions in Development Finance
by Raymond F. Mikesell - 50-51 The Growlery
by M. Bronfenbrenner - 51-52 At Home
by Edward J. Kane