Journal of Economic Perspectives

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

Intermediate Microeconomics

Some JEP articles recommended for classroom use

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Under this course heading, faculty members also listed a wide variety of articles that are included under the listings for for Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Education, Game Theory, and Econometrics." 


Prendergast, Canice. 2017. “How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31 (4): 145–62. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.31.4.145

Waldfogel, Joel. 2017. “How Digitization Has Created a Golden Age of Music, Movies, Books, and Television.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31 (3): 195–214. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.31.3.195

Moscati, Ivan. 2016. “Retrospectives: How Economists Came to Accept Expected Utility Theory: The Case of Samuelson and Savage.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30 (2): 219–36. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.30.2.219

Gilbert, Richard J. 2015. “E-Books: A Tale of Digital Disruption.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 29 (3): 165–84. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.29.3.165

Daly, Mary C., Bart Hobijn, Ayşegül Şahin, and Robert G. Valletta. 2012. “A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (3): 3–26. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.26.3.3

Abramitzky, Ran. 2011. “Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 25 (1): 185–208. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.1.185

­­­Rysman, Marc. 2009. “The Economics of Two-Sided Markets.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 23 (3): 125–43. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.23.3.125

Becker, Gary S., and Julio Jorge Elías. 2007. “Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 21 (3): 3–24. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.21.3.3

Kahn, Lawrence M. 2007. “Markets: Cartel Behavior and Amateurism in College Sports.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 21 (1): 209–26. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.21.1.209

Graddy, Kathryn. 2006. “Markets: The Fulton Fish Market.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (2): 207–20. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20.2.207 

Ludvigson, Sydney C. 2004. “Consumer Confidence and Consumer Spending.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (2): 29–50. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/0895330041371222

Manski, Charles F. 2000. “Economic Analysis of Social Interactions.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (3): 115–36. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.14.3.115

Miron, Jeffrey A., and Jeffrey Zwiebel. 1995. “The Economic Case against Drug Prohibition.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (4): 175–92. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.9.4.175