The Best of Business Economics: Highlights from the First Fifty Years

Introduction; Robert Thomas Crow
PART I: 1965-1974
1. A New Look At Monetary and Fiscal Policy (1967); Paul A. Volcker
2. The Role of Money in Economic Activity: Complicated or Simple? (1969); Edward M. Gramlich
3. Econometric Model Building for Growth Projections (1969); Lawrence R. Klein
4. President's Message (1970); Alan Greenspan
5. The Social Significance of Environmental Pollution (1970); Barry Commoner
6. The Productivity Slow-Down (1971); John W. Kendrick
7. Why Productivity is Important (1973); Geoffrey H. Moore
PART II: 1975-1984
8. Presidential Address: NABE and the Business Forecaster (1975); Robert G. Dederick
9. Thoughts on Inflation: The Basic Forces (1975); Gottfried Haberler
10. The Practical Use of Economic Analysis in Investment Management (1975); Edmund A. Mennis
11. On Human Welfare (1979); Albert G. Matamoros
12. Company Total Factor Productivity: Refinements, Production Functions, and Certain Effects of Regulation (1981); Douglas L. Cocks
13. Conservatives, Economists, and Neckties (1983); Herbert Stein
14. Economics From Three Perspectives (1982); Marina v.N. Whitman
15. Was Adam Smith a Monetarist or a Keynesian? (1984); Charles P. Kindleberger
PART III: 1985-1994
16. The Effect of Government on Economic Efficiency (1987); George J. Stigler
17. On the Structure of an Economy (1988); James M. Buchanan
18. Rethinking International Trade (1988); Paul Krugman
19. The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community (1989); Milton Friedman
20. A Guide to What is Known About Business Cycles (1990); Victor Zarnowitz
21. Some Financial Perspectives on Comparative Costs of Capital (1991); J. Fred Weston
22. Health Insurance Derivatives: The Newest Application of Modern Financial Risk Management (1993); James A. Hayes, Joseph B. Cole and David I. Meiselman
PART IV: 1995-2014
23. An Ambitious Agenda for Economic Growth (1996); Murray Weidenbaum<24. Capitalism and its Discontents (1998); Michael J. Boskin
25. Protecting Against the Next Financial Crisis: The Need to Reform Global Financial Oversight, the IMF, and Monetary Policy Goals (1999); Henry Kaufman
26. How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model (1999); Alan S. Blinder
27. What Would Adam Smith Say Now? (2000); Henry Kaufman
28. Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival: A Review of the Evidence (2001); Kevin J. Stiroh
29. Understanding Inflation: Lessons From My Central Banking Career (2002); Harvey Rosenblum
30. Managing Exchange Rates: Achievement of Global Re-Balancing or Evidence of Global Co-Dependency? (2004); Catherine L. Mann
PART V: 2005-2015
31. The Explanatory Power of Monetary Policy Rules (2007); John B. Taylor
32. Adam Smith and the Political Economy of a Modern Financial Crisis (2008); Michael Mussa
33. Underwriting, Mortgage Lending, and House Prices: 1996-2008 (2009); James A. Wilcox
34. The Impact of the Housing Market Boom and Bust on Consumption Spending (2010); Jeremy A. Leonard
35. Macroprudential Supervision and Monetary Policy in the Post-Crisis World (2010); Janet L. Yellen
36. Nightmare on Kaiserstrasse (2011); Kenneth Rogoff
37. Financial Services and the Trust Deficit: Why the Industry Should Make Better Governance a Top Priority (2013); Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
38. U.S. Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound (2014); Lawrence H. Summers
PART VI: FEATURE ARTICLES
39. Focus on Industries and Markets: Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Equipment (2011); David A. Petina, Michael Murphy, Andrew C. Gross
40. Focus on Statistics: Initial Results of the 2012 Economic Census (2014); Robert P. Parker
41. Economics at Work: Economics at the American Chemistry Council (2014); Thomas Kevin Swift