the 1970s there was no organized effort to keep Kiss, or other immigrant-headed bands such as Abba or the Village People, out of the United States.) In a similar fashion, pressure from U.S. farmers and other employers may account for why it is that each year 300,000 illegal immigrants succeed in entering and finding work in the United States (Passel, Capps, and Fix 2004). For any presidential administration, globalization is likely to be a tricky subject. The gains from international economic integration are spread among a diffuse group of consumers, while the losses are concentrated in specific industries and regions. Into the debate, economists can interject dispassionate analysis of the costs and benefits associated with cross-border flows of goods, capital, and labor. On immigration and trade, the ERP gets many things right, but it falters when discussing the distributional consequences of globalization. This may be driven in part by the report's predictable but still discomforting tendency to cheerlead for the president's policy proposals. In the end, we are left with a discussion of globalization's consequences that is less balanced and complete than one might have hoped. REFERENCES

The Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regularly reviews books of interest to the economics profession. The Economic Report of the President (ERP) falls under that purview and beginning this year, the JEL will be reviewing the ERP. Toward that end, I have asked a handful of very prominent economists to review the 2005 ERP. Reviewers were chosen to reflect expertise on what I guessed would be key issues. Reviewers were given the following instructions: The ERP in principle should provide an accurate assessment of the consensus professional views of economists on any given issue, based on the research to date. Does the discussion in the ERP in fact accurately summarize what we as economists know? Reviewers were given free rein over what material they would review in the ERP but were urged to focus on their areas of particular expertise. In the reviews that follow, Joel Slemrod reviews the discussion of tax reform. Joe Farrell reviews the ERP's chapter titled “Innovation and the Information Economy.” Gordon Hanson reviews the chapters on international trade and on immigration. Robert Hall reviews the discussion of the adverse macroeconomic impact of rising oil prices while Jonathan Gruber reviews the ERP chapter titled “Expanding Individual Choice and Control.” Many thanks to the reviewers for the quick turnaround.