- Introduction [John J. Siegfried]
- Overview: Highlights of the Benefits of Basic Science in Economics [Charles R. Plott]
- Comment [Daniel S. Hamermesh]
- Comment [Daniel Newlon]
- 1. The Evolution of Emissions Trading [Thomas H. Tietenberg]
- Comment [Wallace E. Oates]
- 2. Better Living through Improved Price Indexes [Michael J. Boskin]
- Comment [Jerry Hausman]
- 3. Economics and the Earned Income Tax Credit [Robert A. Moffitt]
- Comment [V. Joseph Hotz]
- 4. Trade Liberalization and Growth in Developing Countries [Anne O. Krueger]
- Comment [Douglas A. Irwin]
- 5. The Role of Economics in the Welfare-to-Work Reforms of the 1990s [Rebecca M. Blank]
- Comment [Nancy Folbre]
- 6. Better Living through Monetary Economics [John B. Taylor]
- Comment [Laurence H. Meyer]
- 7. The Greatest Auction in History [R. Preston McAfee, John McMillan, and Simon Wilkie]
- Comment [Jeremy Bulow]
- 8. Air-Transportation Deregulation [Elizabeth E. Bailey]
- Comment [Nancy L. Rose]
- 9. Deferred-Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice [Alvin E. Roth]
- Comment [Peter Cramton]
- 10. Economics, Economists, and Antitrust: A Tale of Growing Influence [Lawrence J. White]
- Comment [Kenneth G. Elzinga]
- 11. Economics and the All-Volunteer Military Force [Beth J. Asch, James C. Miller III, and John T. Warner]
- Comment [Walter Y. Oi]
- 12. Public Policy and Saving for Retirement: The Autosave Features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 [John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Brian Weller]
- Comment [Robert J. Shiller]
- Contributors
- Index
Better Living through Economics
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