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Working Papers

2016

1. Decentralized Pricing and the equivalence between Nash and Walrasian equilibrium
   Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL View citations (3)
   Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2016) View citations (3)
   Post-Print, HAL (2016) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Decentralized Pricing and the equivalence between Nash and Walrasian equilibrium, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (3) (2016)
2. Evolutionary behavioral economics
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (2)

2015

3. Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility
   Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL View citations (15)
   Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2013) View citations (2)
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2015) View citations (14)
   Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (2013) View citations (6)
   Post-Print, HAL (2013) View citations (2)
   Post-Print, HAL (2015) View citations (14)
   See also Journal Article Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier (2015) View citations (16) (2015)

2014

4. Stochastic Stability in the Scarf Economy
   Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL View citations (10)
   Also in Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (2013) View citations (1)
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2014) View citations (10)
   Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2012)
   Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (2012)
   Post-Print, HAL (2014) View citations (10)
   Post-Print, HAL (2012)
   See also Journal Article Stochastic stability in the Scarf economy, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (2014) View citations (11) (2014)

2013

5. The Stability of Walrasian General Equilibrium
   Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne
   Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2012) View citations (11)
   Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (2012) View citations (11)
   Post-Print, HAL (2012) View citations (10)

2007

6. Power
   Department of Economics University of Siena, Department of Economics, University of Siena
   Also in UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics (2007)

2006

7. Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity
   Middlebury College Working Paper Series, Middlebury College, Department of Economics View citations (19)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2006) View citations (29)

2001

8. Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale Societies
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (43)
9. Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
   Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (39)
10. In search of homo economicus: Experiments in 15 small-scale societies
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (540)
11. Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior and Earnings
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (143)
    See also Journal Article Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2001) View citations (146) (2001)
12. Social Capital and Community Governance
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article Social Capital and Community Governance, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2002) View citations (339) (2002)
13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Gene-Culture Coevolution, and the Internalization of Norms
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (4)
14. The Inheritance of Economic Status: Education, Class, and Genetics
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (5)
15. The Puzzle of Prosociality
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (5)

2000

16. Costly Signaling and Cooperation
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (16)
17. Risk Aversion, Insurance, and the Efficiency-Equality Tradeoff
    UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations (1)
18. Strong Reciprocity and Human Sociality
    UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations (196)
19. The Determinants of Earnings: Skills, Preferences, and Schooling
    UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations (22)
20. The Evolution of Reciprocal Preferences
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (5)
21. The Evolution of Strong Reciprocity
    UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations (27)
    Also in Research in Economics, Santa Fe Institute (1998) View citations (18)
22. Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
    UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics View citations (67)
    See also Journal Article Walrasian Economics in Retrospect, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2000) View citations (68) (2000)

1999

23. Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance
    Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley View citations (10)
    Also in Microeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany (1998) View citations (12)
    Center for International and Development Economics Research (CIDER) Working Papers, University of California-Berkeley, Department of Economics (1998) View citations (16)
    Center for International and Development Economics Research (CIDER) Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley (1998) View citations (14)
    Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1999) View citations (12)
    See also Chapter Wealth inequality, wealth constraints and economic performance, Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier (2000) View citations (73) (2000)

1998

24. Mutual Monitoring in Teams: The Effects of Residual Claimancy and Reciprocity
    Research in Economics, Santa Fe Institute View citations (13)

1997

25. A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation
    Working Papers, Santa Fe Institute View citations (3)
    Also in Research in Economics, Santa Fe Institute (1997) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer (1997) View citations (2) (1997)

1989

26. International Capital Markets and the Limits of National Economic Policy
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
    Also in WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) (1989)

1988

27. Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory
    Economics Working Papers, University of California at Berkeley View citations (27)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1988) View citations (28)
    See also Journal Article Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (1988) View citations (28) (1988)

Journal Articles

2017

1. How humans cooperate and punish
   Nature Human Behaviour, 2017, 1, (9), 626-627

2016

2. Decentralized Pricing and the equivalence between Nash and Walrasian equilibrium
   Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2016, 63, (C), 84-92 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Decentralized Pricing and the equivalence between Nash and Walrasian equilibrium, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) (2016) View citations (3) (2016)
3. Homo Ludens: Social rationality and political behavior
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, (PB), 95-109 View citations (4)

2015

4. Homo Socialis: An Analytical Core for Sociological Theory
   Review of Behavioral Economics, 2015, 2, (1-2), 1-59 View citations (8)
5. Modeling Homo Socialis: A Reply to Critics
   Review of Behavioral Economics, 2015, 2, (1-2), 211-237 View citations (1)
6. Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, (C), 257-277 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) (2015) View citations (15) (2015)
7. Sociobiology: Altruists together
   Nature, 2015, 517, (7536), 550-551

2014

8. El problema de la teoría del capital humano: una crítica marxista
   Revista de Economía Crítica, 2014, 18, 220-228 View citations (1)
9. Sociobiology: The distributed brain
   Nature, 2014, 509, (7500), 284-285
10. Stochastic stability in the Scarf economy
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 2014, 67, (C), 44-49 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Stochastic Stability in the Scarf Economy, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) (2014) View citations (10) (2014)

2013

11. The evolutionary roots of human hyper-cognition
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2013, 15, (1), 83-89 View citations (2)

2012

12. Rational Choice
    The Economic Record, 2012, 88, (280), 153-156

2011

13. Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology
    The Economic Record, 2011, 87, (279), 646-648
14. The future of behavioral game theory
    Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2011, 10, (2), 97-102 View citations (1)

2010

15. Blaming the messenger: Notes on the current state of experimental economics
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (1), 109-119 View citations (17)
16. Rationality and common knowledge
    Rationality and Society, 2010, 22, (3), 259-282 View citations (1)
17. Review 2. Rationality and its Discontents
    Economic Journal, 2010, 120, (542), F162-F180 View citations (1)
18. Social norms as choreography
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2010, 9, (3), 251-264 View citations (11)
19. Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition
    The Economic Record, 2010, 86, (273), 301-303
20. Towards a renaissance of economic theory
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (1), 34-40 View citations (1)

2009

21. Like minds can be small minds
    Nature, 2009, 461, (7260), 40-41
22. Princeton, 2009. Animal Spirits or Complex Adaptive Dynamics? A Review of George Akerlof and Robert J. Schiller Animal Spirits
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2009, 30, (3), 511-515
23. Strong reciprocity and team production: Theory and evidence
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (2), 221-232 View citations (78)
24. The local best response criterion: An epistemic approach to equilibrium refinement
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (2), 89-97 View citations (1)

2008

25. Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, Editors, Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, The MIT Press, Cambridge (2007)
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008, 29, (3), 366-368
26. Kenneth G. Binmore, Natural Justice, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2005)
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008, 29, (3), 362-365

2007

27. Review 2: Economic Growth and Wellbeing: A Behavioural Analysis
    Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (521), 455-459 View citations (1)
28. The Dynamics of General Equilibrium
    Economic Journal, 2007, 117, (523), 1280-1309 View citations (94)
29. The evolution of private property
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2007, 64, (1), 1-16 View citations (37)

2006

30. Behavioral ethics meets natural justice
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2006, 5, (1), 5-32 View citations (7)
31. The Emergence of a Price System from Decentralized Bilateral Exchange
    The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2006, 6, (1), 17 View citations (21)

2004

32. Book Review: Lee Alan Dugatkin. 2001. The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond the Gene. Simon & Shuster, New York, xvi+256 pp. $25.00
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2004, 6, (3), 329-331
33. Economic interests
    Nature, 2004, 431, (7006), 245-246
34. Modeling cooperation among self-interested agents: a critique
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2004, 33, (6), 695-714 View citations (9)
35. Persistent parochialism: trust and exclusion in ethnic networks
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 55, (1), 1-23 View citations (91)
36. The genetic side of gene-culture coevolution: internalization of norms and prosocial emotions
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (1), 57-67 View citations (7)
37. Towards the Unity of the Human Behavioral Sciences
    Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2004, 3, (1), 37-57 View citations (9)

2003

38. Solving the Puzzle of Prosociality
    Rationality and Society, 2003, 15, (2), 155-187 View citations (28)

2002

39. Homo reciprocans
    Nature, 2002, 415, (6868), 125-127
40. Social Capital and Community Governance
    Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (483), 419-436 View citations (339)
    See also Working Paper Social Capital and Community Governance, Working Papers (2001) View citations (12) (2001)
41. The Inheritance of Inequality
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, 16, (3), 3-30 View citations (380)

2001

42. Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 155-158 View citations (146)
    See also Working Paper Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior and Earnings, Working Papers (2001) View citations (143) (2001)
43. The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2001, 39, (4), 1137-1176 View citations (579)

2000

44. Beyond Homo economicus: evidence from experimental economics
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 35, (3), 311-322 View citations (112)
45. Reciprocity, Self-Interest and the Welfare State
    Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2000, 26, 33-53 View citations (53)
46. Walrasian Economics in Retrospect
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (4), 1411-1439 View citations (68)
    See also Working Paper Walrasian Economics in Retrospect, UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers (2000) View citations (67) (2000)

1997

47. A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation
    Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 1997, 3, (1), 19-41 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper A Markov Model of Production, Trade, and Money: Theory and Artificial Life Simulation, Working Papers (1997) View citations (3) (1997)

1996

48. Efficient Redistribution: New Rules for Markets, States, and Communities
    Politics & Society, 1996, 24, (4), 307-342 View citations (10)

1995

49. TAKING EFFORT SERIOUSLY: A REPLY TO CURRIE AND STEEDMAN
    Metroeconomica, 1995, 46, (2), 202-210 View citations (3)

1994

50. CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND THE INCIDENCE OF WORKER-OWNED FIRMS
    Metroeconomica, 1994, 45, (3), 209-223 View citations (25)

1993

51. A Political and Economic Case for the Democratic Enterprise
    Economics and Philosophy, 1993, 9, (1), 75-100 View citations (25)
52. The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993, 7, (1), 83-102 View citations (102)

1992

53. New Economic Rules of the Game
    Challenge, 1992, 35, (5), 47-53

1991

54. Where Did Schumpeter Go Wrong?
    Challenge, 1991, 34, (1), 27-33

1990

55. Contested Exchange: New Microfoundations for the Political Economy of Capitalism
    Politics & Society, 1990, 18, (2), 165-222 View citations (42)
56. Reply to Our Critics
    Politics & Society, 1990, 18, (2), 293-315

1989

57. Financial markets and the political structure of the enterprise
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1989, 11, (3), 311-322 View citations (11)

1988

58. Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 145-50 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory, Economics Working Papers (1988) View citations (27) (1988)

1987

59. Analytical Marxism. Edited by John Roemer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. viii, 313p. $39.50, cloth; $11.95, paper)
    American Political Science Review, 1987, 81, (3), 983-984
60. Wages, work intensity, and unemployment
    Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1987, 1, (2), 195-228 View citations (11)

1982

61. The Crisis of Liberal Democratic Capitalism: The Case of the United States
    Politics & Society, 1982, 11, (1), 51-93 View citations (11)
62. The Welfare State and Long-Term Economic Growth: Marxian, Neoclassical, and Keynesian Approaches
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (2), 341-45 View citations (7)

1981

63. Education as a Site of Contradictions in the Reproduction of the Capital-Labor Relationship: Second Thoughts on the 'Correspondence Principle'
    Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1981, 2, (2), 223-242
64. Labour Heterogeneity and the Labour Theory of Value: A Reply [The Marxian Theory of Value and Heterogeneous Labour: A Critique and Reformulation]
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1981, 5, (3), 285-88 View citations (1)
65. Structure and Practice in the Labor Theory of Value
    Review of Radical Political Economics, 1981, 12, (4), 1-26 View citations (23)

1979

66. On The Theory of Transitional Conjunctures
    Review of Radical Political Economics, 1979, 11, (3), 23-31 View citations (1)

1978

67. Professor Morishima on Heterogeneous Labour and Marxian Value Theory
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1978, 2, (3), 311-14 View citations (9)
68. The Invisible Fist: Have Capitalism and Democracy Reached a Parting of the Ways?
    American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (2), 358-63 View citations (1)

1977

69. The Marxian Theory of Value and Heterogeneous Labour: A Critique and Reformulation
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1977, 1, (2), 173-92 View citations (25)

1976

70. The Nature of Labor Exchange and the Theory of Capitalist Production
    Review of Radical Political Economics, 1976, 8, (2), 36-54 View citations (39)

1975

71. The Problem with Human Capital Theory-A Marxian Critique
    American Economic Review, 1975, 65, (2), 74-82 View citations (62)
72. Welfare Economics and Individual Development: A Reply to Talcott Parsons
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1975, 89, (2), 291-302 View citations (4)

1974

73. Welfare Criteria with Endogenous Preferences: The Economics of Education
    International Economic Review, 1974, 15, (2), 415-30 View citations (25)

1972

74. A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1972, 86, (4), 572-599 View citations (15)
75. Alienation and Power
    Review of Radical Political Economics, 1972, 4, (5), 1-34
76. Consumer Behavior and the Concept of Sovereignty: Explanations of Social Decay
    American Economic Review, 1972, 62, (2), 267-78 View citations (8)

1971

77. Education, Technology, and the Characteristics of Worker Productivity
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (2), 266-79 View citations (36)

1970

78. New Working Class and Revolutionary Youth: a Theoretical Synthesis and a Program for the Future
    Review of Radical Political Economics, 1970, 2, (2), 43-73

Books

2016

1. Game Theory in Action: An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (4)

2014

2. The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (15)

2013

3. A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (46)

2011

4. Macroeconomic Policy after the Conservative Era
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (1)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (1995) View citations (122)

Edited books

2008

1. Markets and Democracy
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (2)

2006

2. Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (6)

2004

3. Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (354)

1993

4. Markets and Democracy
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (56)

Chapters

2017

1. Rational choice in public and private spheres
   Chapter 31 in Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, 2017, pp 543-556

2016

2. Backward induction
   A chapter in Game Theory in Action: An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models, 2016

2014

3. Decision Theory and Human Behavior
   A chapter in The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences, 2014

2013

4. A Cooperative Species
   A chapter in A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution, 2013 View citations (32)
5. Altruistic reciprocity
   Chapter 2 in Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise, 2013, pp 20-43
6. Social preferences
   Chapter 33 in Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise, 2013, pp 327-335

2009

7. Beyond Enlightened Self-Interest: Social Norms, Other-Regarding Preferences, and Cooperative Behavior
   Springer View citations (8)
8. Subgame Perfection in Evolutionary Dynamics with Recurrent Perturbations
   Chapter 13 in Handbook of Research on Complexity, 2009

2008

9. Implications of Behavioural Game Theory for Neoclassical Economic Theory
   Palgrave Macmillan
10. Introduction to Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
    A chapter in Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, 2008 View citations (12)
11. The Endowment Effect and the Origin of Private Property
    Palgrave Macmillan

2006

12. Strong reciprocity and the welfare state
    Elsevier View citations (44)

2001

13. Contested exchange: a new microeconomics of capitalism
    Chapter 2 in Capitalism in Evolution, 2001

2000

14. Egalitarianism On Its Own
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
15. Wealth inequality, wealth constraints and economic performance
    Chapter 10 in Handbook of Income Distribution, 2000, vol. 1, pp 541-603 View citations (73)
    See also Working Paper Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (1999) View citations (10) (1999)

1997

16. Democratic Firms and the Distribution of Wealth
    Palgrave Macmillan