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The Journal of Economic Perspectives Contents Volume 28 Number 4 Fall 2014 Symposia Social Networks Matthew O. Jackson, Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors..3 Vasco M. Carvalho, From Micro to Macro via Production Networks...23 Kaivan Munshi, Community Networks and the Process of Development...49 Tax Enforcement and Compliance Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much?...77 Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson, Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little?...99 Gabriel Zucman, Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits... 121 Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal, Tax Morale... 149 Articles Sheilagh Ogilvie, The Economics of Guilds... 169 Joshua Goodman, The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure, and Human Capital Accumulation... 193 Features H. Spencer Banzhaf, Retrospectives: The Cold-War Origins of the Value of Statistical Life... 213 Timothy Taylor, Recommendations for Further Reading...227 Correspondence: The Missing Middle, James Tybout...235
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