Region Focus

Summer 2007

Cover Story

Voting Booth

Democracy and Other Failures

The theory of public choice helps explain why we get stuck with so many bad economic policies. Or does it?
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Features

Risky Business

Have recent innovations in credit markets made the financial system safer or riskier?
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Academic Labor Market's Tenure Track Recedes

Even professors can no longer count on job security. But to many academics, tenure may have outlived its appeal anyway
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Banks and Business

The success of some banking and commerce combinations raises the question of whether maintaining a wall between them makes economic sense
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Departments

President's Message

No Guarantees

Federal Reserve

A Great Crisis, A Long Debate
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Jargon Alert

Comparative Advantage

Research Spotlight

Buying Time
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Policy Update

Federal Minimum Wage Increased
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Around the Fed

Why Countries Default
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Short Takes/News from around the District

Interview

Russell Sobel
Full Interview
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Economic History

Going to Market
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Web Exclusive: The Evolution of Furniture Marketing in High Point

Book Review

The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers who Revolutionized Economics and Business By Johan Van Overtveldt
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District/State Economic Conditions

Opinion

Why I Want To Be An Economist

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