Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter 1999

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Abstract

Author

Front Matter

(pp. 1–2)

Symposium: The Economics of Higher Education

The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education: Introduction to a Symposium

by Charles T. Clotfelter

(pp. 3–12)

Subsidies, Hierarchy and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education

by Gordon C. Winston

(pp. 13–36)

The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz

(pp. 37–62)

The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work

by Thomas J. Kane and Cecilia Elena Rouse

(pp. 63–84)

Tenure Issues in Higher Education

by Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro

(pp. 85–98)

Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg

(pp. 99–116)

Articles

Will Aging Baby Boomers Bust the Federal Budget?

by Ronald Lee and Jonathan Skinner

(pp. 117–140)

Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

by Martin Gaynor and Deborah Haas-Wilson

(pp. 141–164)

Asymmetric Information and Public Economics: The Mirrlees-Vickrey Nobel Prize

by Agnar Sandmo

(pp. 165–180)

Features

Policy Watch: Developments in Antitrust Economics

by Jonathan B. Baker

(pp. 181–194)

Retrospectives: Say's Law

by William J. Baumol

(pp. 195–204)

Classroom Games: A Market for Lemons

by Charles A. Holt and Roger Sherman

(pp. 205–214)

Correspondence

by Reinard Schuessler and Robert W. Dimand

(pp. 223–225)

Notes

(pp. 227–232)