Journal of Economic Perspectives

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

Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 2005

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Abstract

Author

Symposium: Social Security Reform

Shortfalls in the Long Run: Predictions about the Social Security Trust Fund

by James R. Hines Jr. and Timothy Taylor

(pp. 3–9)

Saving Social Security

by Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag

(pp. 11–32)

Structural Reform of Social Security

by Martin Feldstein

(pp. 33–55)

Symposium: Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach

by Richard A. Posner

(pp. 57–73)

Probabilistic Patents

by Mark A. Lemley and Carl Shapiro

(pp. 75–98)

The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

(pp. 99–120)

Copying and Copyright

by Hal R. Varian

(pp. 121–138)

Articles

Lessons About Markets from the Internet

by Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

(pp. 139–158)

Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire?

by W. Scott Frame and Lawrence J. White

(pp. 159–184)

Direct Democracy Works

by John G. Matsusaka

(pp. 185–206)

Features

Data Watch: Tort-uring the Data

by Eric Helland, Jonathan Klick, and Alexander Tabarrok

(pp. 207–220)

Recommendations for Further Reading

by Timothy Taylor

(pp. 221–228)

Comments

(pp. 229–230)

Notes

(pp. 231–234)