Issue: October 2009

Announcements

JPE SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN CENTURY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Journal of Political Economy has been chosen for inclusion in the Century of Social Sciences, a bibliographic database published by Thomson ISI that includes comprehensive backfile and cited reference data from 1900 to 1955 for the most influential social sciences research of the 20th century. As one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in economics, the JPE is proud to be selected for this esteemed bibliographic collection.

MILTON FRIEDMAN ON ECONOMICS BOOK NOW AVAILABLE

Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as “the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era” by The New York Times and “the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century” by The Economist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976, Friedman was both a highly respected economist and a prominent public intellectual, the leader of a revolution in economic and political thought that argued robustly in favor of the virtues of free markets and laissez-faire policies.

Press Release

City dwellers bear disproportionate federal tax burden

Live in an expensive city? Think you pay too much in federal taxes? If so, a study in the current issue of the Journal of Political Economy finds that you’re exactly right.

Seven University of Chicago Press Journals in Thomson ISI’s Century of Social Sciences Database

Study Separates Russian Flat Tax Myth and Fact

A study published in the Journal of Political Economy finds that flat tax reform in Russia decreased tax evasion, but did little to increase real income for households

In the News

Featured in Atlantic Monthly
"City Residents Pay More... Taxes" August 21, 2009

The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

David Albouy

Featured in Guardian
"From Russia with Laffer, a tax cut tale" June 23, 2009

Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia


"The study on Russia, published in this month's Journal of Political Economy, found that although the tax cut did increase tax compliance, it did nothing to boost the work ethic." --Christopher Swann, columnist for Reuters

Most Cited Articles

  1. The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities

    Fischer Black and Myron Scholes

  2. Law and Finance

    Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny

  3. Endogenous Technological Change

    Paul M. Romer

  4. Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth

    Paul M. Romer

  5. Risk, Return, and Equilibrium: Empirical Tests

    Eugene F. Fama and James D. MacBeth

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Most Accessed Articles

  1. The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis

    Felix Oberholzer‐Gee and Koleman Strumpf

  2. Erratum: Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

    Raj Chetty

  3. Law and Finance

    Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny

  4. Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy

    Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles L. Evans

  5. Credit Cycles

    Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and John Moore

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October 2009

Volume 117, Number 5
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