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INCLUDE FREE ONLINE ACCESS, for everyone at your organization, to an archive of papers going back to June, 1973. Subscribers also receive, by mail in hard copy, the full NBER Working Paper Series of approximately 1,000 papers published each year. Subscriptions are free to Corporate Associates. Anyone interested in becoming a Corporate Associate should contact Denis Healy.  For others within the United States, the standard rate for a full hard copy subscription is $7,200 or academic libraries and faculty members, $5,900 Partial subscriptions, delineated by program, are also available. Details are listed below.
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Hard copy, as well as online-only subscriptions, allow electronic access for everyone at an organization to all current papers plus an archive of papers going back to June, 1973. No licensing agreements are required. The full text of Working Papers are now available on the NBER Web site even before hard copy papers leave the mailing house. Pricing details on online-only subscriptions are listed below.

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Corporate Finance 675 550 815 575 450 175
Economic Fluctuations and Growth 1645 1330 1790 1390 520 205
Economics of the Elderly 540 430 580 455 100 60
Education 450 370 500 390 100 70
Environmental and Energy Economics 555 445 600 470 140 95
Health and Health Care 665 550 725 570 200 95
Historical Development of the American Economy 555 445 600 470 140 95
Industrial Organization 490 390 535 410 120 60
International Finance and Macroeconomics 1015 800 1190 860 625 255
International Trade and Investment 810 650 875 680 345 140
Labor Studies 1415 1130 1545 1210 405 170
Law and Economics 370 300 400 310 100 70
Monetary Economics 735 590 800 625 265 125
Political Economy 555 445 600 470 140 95
Productivity and Technological Change 565 460 620 480 140 90
Stocks, Bonds, and Foreign Currency/Asset Pricing 925 750 1010 800 425 140
Taxation/Public Economics/Government Spending 1475 1190 1605 1245 400 175
Technical Working Papers 175 135 230 170 115 75

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