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Journal Articles

2009

1. Museums, Funding, and Business
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009, 68, (2), 491-516

2006

2. Marginal Deterrence and Multiple Murders
   Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72, (3), 521-541

2005

3. Cathedral Building as an Entry-Deterring Device
   Kyklos, 2005, 58, (4), 453-465 View citations

2004

4. Smokeless tobacco, smoking cessation and harm reduction: an economic analysis
   Applied Economics, 2004, 36, (1), 17-29
5. The "Unintended Consequences" of Confederate Trade Legislation
   Eastern Economic Journal, 2004, 30, (2), 187-205
6. The Economics of the Counter-Reformation: Incumbent-Firm Reaction to Market Entry
   Economic Inquiry, 2004, 42, (4), 690-705

2003

7. Criminal justice institutions as a common pool: the 19th century analysis of Edwin Chadwick
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003, 50, (3), 271-294 View citations
8. Monarchy, Monopoly and Mercantilism: Brazil versus the United States in the 1800s
   Public Choice, 2003, 116, (3-4), 381-98
9. Occupational Licensing of a Credence Good: The Regulation of Midwifery
   Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 69, (3), 659-675 View citations

2002

10. An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation
    Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 110, (3), 646-671 View citations
11. Book Review: David W. Galenson, Painting outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
    Journal of Cultural Economics, 2002, 26, (4), 325-327
12. Occupational Licensing in a "Competitive" Labor Market: The Case of Cosmetology*
    Journal of Labor Research, 2002, 23, (2), 261-278 View citations
13. Preliminary evidence on unbundled elements demand in local telephony
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2002, 30, (4), 443-443
14. The Origins of Neoclassical Microeconomics
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 197-215

2001

15. The Measurement of Merger Delay in Regulated and Restructured Industries
    Applied Economics Letters, 2001, 8, (8), 535-37
16. WILLIAM T. THORNTON AND NINETEENTH CENTURYECONOMIC POLICY: A REVIEW ESSAY
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2001, 23, (4), 513-531

2000

17. Are Local TV Markets Separate Markets?
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2000, 7, (1), 79-97 View citations
18. Market Power in Radio Markets: An Empirical Analysis of Local and National Concentration
    Journal of Law & Economics, 2000, 43, (1), 157-84 View citations
19. The ``Death-Effect'' in Art Prices: A Demand-Side Exploration
    Journal of Cultural Economics, 2000, 24, (4), 283-300 View citations
20. What Price Fame?, by Cowen, T., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, 248 pp., $22.00 (cloth)
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2000, 21, (2), 90-91

1999

21. Is Radio Advertising a Distinct Local Market? An Empirical Analysis
    Review of Industrial Organization, 1999, 14, (3), 239-256 View citations
22. Public Policy, Perverse Incentives, and the Homeless Problem
    Public Choice, 1999, 98, (1-2), 195-212 View citations
23. The Dupuit-Marshall Theory of Competitive Equilibrium
    Economica, 1999, 66, (262), 225-40 View citations

1998

24. Critical Thinking: Some Problems with the Matrix Method
    Journal of Economic Education, 1998, 29, (3), 274-276
25. Estimates, Bias and “No Sales” in Latin-American Art Auctions, 1977–1996
    Journal of Cultural Economics, 1998, 22, (1), 33-42
26. Mixed and Pure Sharecropping in Nepal: Empirical Evidence Supporting the Traditional Hypothesis
    Applied Economics, 1998, 30, (1), 37-50 View citations

1997

27. Nineteenth Century Urban Market Failure?: Chadwick on Funeral Industry Regulation
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1997, 12, (1), 27-51 View citations
28. The medieval church and rents from marriage market regulations
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1997, 32, (2), 215-245 View citations

1995

29. Political Choice and the Child Labor Statute of 1938: Public Interest or Interest Group Legislation
    Public Choice, 1995, 82, (1-2), 85-106

1994

30. Can Entrepreneurship Be "Unproductive"? Towards an Evolutionary Interpretation
    Review of Social Economy, 1994, 52, (4), 266-79
31. Household Production and Consumption of News-Information Services: An Empirical Study
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1994, 20, (1), 11-19 View citations
32. Rent Seeking and Hidden In-Kind Resource Distortion: Some Empirical Evidence
    Public Choice, 1994, 78, (2), 1717-85 View citations

1992

33. Methodenstreit: The economics of competing interests
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1992, 8, (3), 401-418
34. The economics of sin and redemption: Purgatory as a market-pull innovation?
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1992, 19, (1), 1-15 View citations

1991

35. Dupuit's Characteristics-Based Theory of Consumer Behavior and Entrepreneurship
    Kyklos, 1991, 44, (1), 19-34
36. Restaurant Cuisine, Fast Food and Ethnic Edibles: An Empirical Note on Household Meal Production
    Kyklos, 1991, 44, (4), 613-27 View citations

1989

37. An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking
    Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 1989, 5, (2), 307-31 View citations
38. Full Price Competition and Dupuit's Defense of the Long-and-Short-Haul "Discrimination."
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1989, 1, (4), 359-71
39. Jevons on Utility, Exchange, and Demand Theory: A Reassessment
    The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, 1989, 57, (1), 17-33
40. Nassau Senior as Economic Consultant: The Factory Acts Reconsidered
    Economica, 1989, 56, (221), 71-81

1988

41. Rent Seeking in a Static Model of Zoning
    Real Estate Economics, 1988, 16, (1), 69-76

1987

42. The Pope and the Price of Meat: A Public Choice Perspective
    Kyklos, 1987, 40, (3), 399-413
43. Wieser and the Austrian connection to social economics
    Forum for Social Economics, 1987, 16, (2), 1-12

1986

44. Dupuit, Spatial Economics and Optimal Resource Allocation: A French Tradition
    Economica, 1986, 53, (212), 483-96 View citations
45. Schumpeterian Analysis, Supply-Side Economics and Macroeconomic Policy in the 1920s
    Review of Social Economy, 1986, 44, (3), 221-37

1985

46. Mill's Recantation Once Again: Reply
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1985, 37, (1), 152-53

1983

47. Tradeable Shares and the Supply-Side of Corporate Development: Reply
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1983, 14, (1), 298-300 View citations

1982

48. Capital Fixity, Innovations, and Long-Term Contracting: An Intertemporal Economic Theory of Regulation
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (1), 32-46

1981

49. A. T. Hadley: The American Invention of the Economics of Property Rights and Public Goods
    Review of Social Economy, 1981, 39, (1), 37-50
50. J. S. Mill, Unions, and the Wages Fund Recantation: A Reinterpretation-Comment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981, 96, (3), 531-41

1980

51. Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited
    Economic Inquiry, 1980, 18, (4), 567-99 View citations
52. Mercantilist Origins of the Corporation
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1980, 11, (2), 715-720 View citations

1978

53. J. S. Mill's New Political Economy: Another View
    Economic Inquiry, 1978, 16, (4), 587-92

1977

54. The Fragile Nature of Public Goods Equilibria
    Review of Social Economy, 1977, 35, (2), 204-11

1976

55. A Short-Run Classical Model of Capital and Wages: Mill's Recantation of the Wages Fund
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1976, 28, (1), 66-85
56. Chadwick and Demsetz on Competition and Regulation
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1976, 19, (1), 149-62 View citations
57. The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill: The Means to Social Justice
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1976, 9, (2), 213-31 View citations

1973

58. Joint Supply, the Taussig-Pigou Controversy, and the Competitive Provision of Public Goods
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1973, 16, (2), 369-87
59. Public economics at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees: 1830-1850
    Journal of Public Economics, 1973, 2, (3), 241-256

1972

60. Professor Stigler on Dupuit and the Development of Utility Theory: Comment
    Journal of Political Economy, 1972, 80, (5), 1056-59

1971

61. Economic empiricism in the writing of early railway engineers
    Explorations in Economic History, 1971-1972, 9, (1), 179-196

1970

62. Power and Utility: The Normative Economics of Friedrich von Wieser
    Review of Social Economy, 1970, 28, (2), 179-96 View citations
63. Price Discrimination and Product Differentiation in Economic Theory: An Early Analysis
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1970, 84, (2), 268-78 View citations

1969

64. An Empirical Investigation of Advertising and Concentration: Comment
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 1969, 18, (1), 76-80

1968

65. Jules Dupuit and the Early Theory of Marginal Cost Pricing
    Journal of Political Economy, 1968, 76, 462 View citations

Books

2008

1. The Marketplace of Christianity, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press