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Working Papers

2003

1. Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'": A Personal and Interpretive Essay
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

2002

2. Autobiography
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
3. Inflation and Unemployment in the U.S. and Canada: A Common Framework
   Cahiers de recherche du Département des sciences économiques, UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences économiques View citations (2)

2001

4. Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2002)
5. Interview with the 2001 Laureates in Economics, George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

1990

6. Waiting for Work
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Proceedings (1990)

1989

7. Workers' Trust Funds and the Logic of Wage Profiles
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (31)
   See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1989)

1986

8. Do Deferred Wages Dominate Involuntary Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

1978

9. A theory of involuntary unemployment
   Special Studies Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
10. A theory of social custom, of which unemployment may be one consequence
    Special Studies Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations (26)
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1980)
11. Irving Fisher on his head II: the consequences of the timing of payments for the demand for money
    Special Studies Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1980)
12. The sensitivity of monetarist conclusions to monetarist assumptions: constant lag versus constant target-threshold monitoring
    Special Studies Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
13. Unemployment spells and unemployment experience
    Special Studies Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1980)

Journal Articles

2010

1. Identity Economics
   The Economists' Voice, 2010, 7, (2), 6 View citations (5)

2009

2. How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, 91, (5), 1175-1175 View citations (42)

2008

3. Comment on "Household Debt in the Consumer Age: Source of Growth—Risk of Collapse" (by Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari)
   Capitalism and Society, 2008, 3, (2), 4
4. Identity, Supervision, and Work Groups
   American Economic Review, 2008, 98, (2), 212-17 View citations (4)

2007

5. The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics
   American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (1), 5-36 View citations (63)
6. The New Case for Keynesianism
   Challenge, 2007, 50, (4), 5-16
7. Unfinished Business in the Macroeconomics of Low Inflation: A Tribute to George and Bill by Bill and George
   Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2007, 38, (2), 31-48 View citations (1)

2006

8. Foreword
   American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (2), 9-9
9. Stabilization Policy: A Reconsideration
   Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44, (1), 1-22 View citations (11)

2005

10. Identity and the Economics of Organizations
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19, (1), 9-32 View citations (176)

2004

11. Election 2004: Fiction vs. Reality
    The Economists' Voice, 2004, 1, (2), 2

2002

12. Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (3), 411-433 View citations (58)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
13. Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2002, 40, (4), 1167-1201 View citations (130)

2000

14. Economics And Identity
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (3), 715-753 View citations (617)
15. Near-Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long-Run Phillips Curve
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2000, 31, (1), 1-60 View citations (120)

1998

16. Men without Children
    Economic Journal, 1998, 108, (447), 287-309 View citations (38)

1997

17. Social Distance and Social Decisions
    Econometrica, 1997, 65, (5), 1005-1028 View citations (257)

1996

18. An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996, 111, (2), 277-317 View citations (63)
19. The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1996, 27, (1), 1-76 View citations (379)

1993

20. Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1993, 24, (2), 1-74 View citations (105)

1991

21. East Germany in from the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1991, 22, (1), 1-106 View citations (88)
22. Procrastination and Obedience
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (2), 1-19 View citations (141)

1990

23. The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990, 105, (2), 255-83 View citations (298)
24. Waiting for work
    Proceedings, 1990, (Nov) View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (1990)

1989

25. THE ECONOMICS OF ILLUSION
    Economics and Politics, 1989, 1, (1), 1-15 View citations (7)
26. Workers' Trust Funds and the Logic of Wage Profiles
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1989, 104, (3), 525-36 View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper (1989)

1988

27. Fairness and Unemployment
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 44-49 View citations (87)
28. Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Labor Market
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1988, 19, (2), 495-594 View citations (145)

1987

29. Rational Models of Irrational Behavior
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (2), 137-42 View citations (6)

1985

30. A Near-rational Model of the Business Cycle, with Wage and Price Intertia
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1985, 100, (5), 823-38 View citations (150)
31. Can Small Deviations from Rationality Make Significant Differences to Economic Equilibria?
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (4), 708-20 View citations (104)
32. Discriminatory, Status-based Wages among Tradition-oriented, Stochastically Trading Coconut Producers
    Journal of Political Economy, 1985, 93, (2), 265-76 View citations (10)
33. Unemployment through the Filter of Memory
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1985, 100, (3), 747-73 View citations (17)

1984

34. Gift Exchange and Efficiency-Wage Theory: Four Views
    American Economic Review, 1984, 74, (2), 79-83 View citations (50)

1983

35. Loyalty Filters
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (1), 54-63 View citations (33)
36. Measures of Unemployment Duration as Guides to Research and Policy: Reply [An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Duration]
    American Economic Review, 1983, 73, (5), 1151-52

1982

37. Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1982, 97, (4), 543-69 View citations (530)
38. The Economic Consequences of Cognitive Dissonance
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (3), 307-19 View citations (192)
39. The Short-Run Demand for Money: A New Look at an Old Problem
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (2), 35-39 View citations (1)

1981

40. An Experience-Weighted Measure of Employment and Unemployment Durations
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (5), 1003-11 View citations (7)
41. Jobs as Dam Sites
    Review of Economic Studies, 1981, 48, (1), 37-49 View citations (10)

1980

42. A Theory of Social Custom, of Which Unemployment May be One Consequence
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 94, (4), 749-75 View citations (235)
    See also Working Paper (1978)
43. Irving Fisher on His Head II: The Consequences of the Timing of Payments for the Demand for Money
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 95, (1), 145-57 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper (1978)
44. Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Pooled Observations: An Example from labor Economics
    International Economic Review, 1980, 21, (3), 507-15
45. The Implicit Contract Theory of Unemployment Meets the Wage Bill Argument
    Review of Economic Studies, 1980, 47, (2), 321-38 View citations (28)
46. The Short Run Demand for Money
    Economic Journal, 1980, 90, (363), 885-900 View citations (2)
47. Unemployment Spells and Unemployment Experience
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (5), 885-93 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper (1978)

1979

48. Irving Fisher on His Head: The Consequences of Constant Threshold-Target Monitoring of Money Holdings
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1979, 93, (2), 169-87 View citations (9)
49. The Case against Conservative Macroeconomics: An Inaugural Lecture
    Economica, 1979, 46, (183), 219-37 View citations (8)

1978

50. New Calculations of Income and Interest Elasticities in Tobin's Model of the Transactions Demand for Money
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1978, 60, (4), 541-46
51. The microeconomic foundations of a flow of funds theory of the demand for money
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1978, 18, (1), 190-215

1976

52. Do Bad Products Drive Out Good? Reply
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1976, 90, (3), 503
53. Inflationary Tales Told by Static Models: The Case of Price Setters
    American Economic Review, 1976, 66, (2), 72-76
54. The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1976, 90, (4), 599-617 View citations (114)

1973

55. The Demand for Money: A General-Equilibirum Inventory-Theoretic Approach
    Review of Economic Studies, 1973, 40, (1), 115-30 View citations (1)

1970

56. Substitution in a general equilibrium framework
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1970, 2, (4), 411-422 View citations (1)
57. The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1970, 84, (3), 488-500 View citations (828)

1969

58. Capital, Wages and Structural Unemployment
    Economic Journal, 1969, 79, (314), 269-81 View citations (5)
59. Relative Wages and the Rate of Inflation
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969, 83, (3), 353-74 View citations (6)
60. Structural Unemployment in a Neoclassical Framework
    Journal of Political Economy, 1969, 77, (3), 399-407 View citations (2)

Books

2005

1. Explorations in Pragmatic Economics
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (1)

1984

2. An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (8)

Edited books

1987

1. Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press