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Center for the Study of Public Choice (CSPC), Economics Department, George Mason University, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2014

1. Educating Digital Natives
   ERES, European Real Estate Society (ERES)
2. Raising the Price of Talk: An Experimental Analysis of Transparent Leadership
   Working Papers, George Mason University, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article Raising the price of talk: An experimental analysis of transparent leadership, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2014) View citations (14) (2014)

2010

3. Emergent Pareto-Levy Distributed Returns to Research in a Multi-Agent Model of Endogenous Technical Change
   Working Papers, Towson University, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2021

1. Statistical discrimination when group members are aware of their stereotype: Learning from David Hume and Adam Smith
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 181, (C), 86-93 View citations (1)
2. William Beveridge’s “mock trial of economists”
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2021, 34, (2), 221-252

2019

3. Liberalism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Colloque Walter Lippmann
   Journal of Contextual Economics (JCE) – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2019, 139, (2–4), 177-187 View citations (2)
4. Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017), pp. xxxii + 334, $28 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781101980965
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, 41, (4), 631-640
5. Sonja M. Amadae, Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. xxxix + 333, $120.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781107064034
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, 41, (2), 278-282

2017

6. Gordon Tullock’s ill-fated appendix: “Flatland Revisited”
   Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, (1), 18-34

2016

7. Group Analytics in Adam Smith’s Work
   Eastern Economic Journal, 2016, 42, (4), 514-527 View citations (1)
8. The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability
   Journal of Management Studies, 2016, 53, (3), 364-401 View citations (46)

2015

9. Carl Hampus Lyttkens, Economic Analysis of Institutional Change in Ancient Greece: Politics, Taxation and Rational Behavior (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. xiii, 188, $140. ISBN 978-0-415-63016-0
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 37, (2), 332-334
10. G. Warren Nutter’s “Traveler’s tale of the Soviet economy”: A witness to the actual world
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2015, 28, (4), 397-404 View citations (1)
11. Huei-chun Su, Economic Justice and Liberty: The Social Philosophy in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 214 + xviii, $140. ISBN 978-0415-69275-5
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 37, (4), 667-670
12. INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE, PRICE DISPERSION, AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF RETURNS TO INNOVATION
    Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19, (2), 334-362
13. Learning from Failure: A Review of Peter Schuck's Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better
    Journal of Economic Literature, 2015, 53, (3), 667-74 View citations (2)

2014

14. Raising the price of talk: An experimental analysis of transparent leadership
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 105, (C), 208-218 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper Raising the Price of Talk: An Experimental Analysis of Transparent Leadership, Working Papers (2014) View citations (12) (2014)

2012

15. Accountability for Service Compliance: A Survey
    International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE), 2012, 3, (1), 16-43
16. Governing Climate Change Transnationally: Assessing the Evidence from a Database of Sixty Initiatives
    Environment and Planning C, 2012, 30, (4), 591-612 View citations (17)
17. Tullock on motivated inquiry: expert-induced uncertainty disguised as risk
    Public Choice, 2012, 152, (1), 163-180 View citations (4)

2011

18. Leadership, cheap talk and really cheap talk
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 77, (1), 40-52 View citations (58)
19. Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of the Modern World, by Daniel Friedman
    Eastern Economic Journal, 2011, 37, (3), 433-435
20. Soviet growth and American textbooks: An endogenous past
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 78, (1-2), 110-125 View citations (19)
    Also in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 78, (1), 110-125 (2011) View citations (19)

2010

21. Larry Moss and the Struggle Against Racism by the Whately Professors of Political Economy
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2010, 69, (1), 67-77
22. Paul J. Zak (ed.), Moral markets: The critical role of values in the economics
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2010, 12, (3), 269-274
23. Price dispersion and increasing returns to scale
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (3), 406-417
24. Richard Whately and the Gospel of Transparency
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2010, 69, (1), 166-187 View citations (3)

2009

25. After Hayek: On Theodore Burczak’s socialism after Hayek
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2009, 22, (3), 293-296
26. Caplan Bryan, Public Choice for Sheeple. A Review of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, Princeton University Press, Princeton (2007) 280 + x pp., index, ISBN ISBN13: 978-0-691-12942-6, $29.95
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 69, (3), 288-294
27. Praiseworthiness and Endogenous Growth
    Prague Economic Papers, 2009, 2009, (3), 220-234 View citations (1)
28. Sympathy, evolution, and The Economist
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (1), 29-36 View citations (2)

2008

29. Darwin's unpublished letter at the Bradlaugh-Besant trial: A question of divided expert judgment
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24, (2), 343-353 View citations (6)
30. Discussion, construction and evolution: Mill, Buchanan and Hayek on the constitutional order
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (1), 3-18 View citations (6)
31. Inducing Greater Transparency: Towards the Establishment of Ethical Rules for Econometrics
    Eastern Economic Journal, 2008, 34, (1), 103-114 View citations (8)
32. Introduction to the Symposium on Ethics
    Eastern Economic Journal, 2008, 34, (1), 101-102 View citations (2)
33. Margaret Schabas: The Natural Origins of Economics
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (4), 361-367
34. Thinking About Analytical Egalitarianism
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, 67, (3), 473-479 View citations (5)

2007

35. The Puzzle of Jevons
    History of Economic Ideas, 2007, 15, (3), 165-171 View citations (3)

2006

36. Charles Kingsley and the Theological Interpretation of Natural Selection
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2006, 8, (3), 197-218 View citations (3)
37. The fragility of a discipline when a model has monopoly status
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19, (2), 125-136 View citations (6)

2005

38. A discipline without sympathy: the happiness of the majority and its demise
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38, (3), 937-954
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2005, 38, (3), 937-954 (2005)
39. From Cardinal to Ordinal Utility Theory
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2005, 64, (3), 851-879 View citations (2)
40. The Theory of Economic Policy in British Classical Political Economy: A Sympathetic Reading
    History of Political Economy, 2005, 37, (5), 120-142 View citations (4)
41. The spatial politics of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21, (4), 982-999
42. Valuing (and Teaching) the Past
    The Journal of Economic Education, 2005, 36, (2), 171-184
43. When socialism fails, then what?
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21, (4), 1064-1068

2004

44. Duncan K. Foley, Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital, and Land in the New Economy, The Graz Schumpeter Lectures, London and New York, Routledge, 2003, xi+98
    History of Economic Ideas, 2004, 12, (2), 107-111
45. Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science: Philip Mirowski, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (3), 423-431
46. SYMPATHY AND APPROBATION IN HUME AND SMITH: A SOLUTION TO THE OTHER RATIONAL SPECIES PROBLEM
    Economics and Philosophy, 2004, 20, (2), 331-349 View citations (14)
47. Statistical prejudice: from eugenics to immigrants
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 20, (1), 5-22 View citations (6)
48. Sympathy and its discontents: 'Greatest happiness' versus the 'general good'
    The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2004, 11, (3), 453-478

2003

49. Denying Human Homogeneity: Eugenics & The Making of Post-Classical Economics
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2003, 25, (3), 261-288 View citations (11)
50. “Who Are the Canters?†The Coalition of Evangelical-Economic Egalitarians
    History of Political Economy, 2003, 35, (4), 731-757 View citations (1)

2002

51. Cointegration in frequency domain
    Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2002, 23, (3), 333-339 View citations (11)
52. Galton's Two Papers on Voting as Robust Estimation
    Public Choice, 2002, 113, (3-4), 357-65 View citations (4)
53. George J. Stigler (1911–1991): Scholar, Father, Dissertation Advisor, Referee, Textbook Writer and Policy Analyst
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2002, 61, (3), 609-656
54. Robust Institutions
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2002, 15, (2-3), 131-42 View citations (3)

2001

55. Analytical egalitarianism, anecdotal evidence and information aggregation via proverbial wisdom
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001, 11, (4), 411-435
56. How the Dismal Science Got its Name: Debating Racial Quackery
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2001, 23, (1), 5-35 View citations (29)

1999

57. Adam Smith's Katallactic Model of Gambling: Approbation from the Spectator
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1999, 21, (1), 81-91 View citations (3)

1998

58. Arjo Klamer (ed.), The Value of Culture: On the Relationship between Economics and Arts
    Journal of Cultural Economics, 1998, 22, (1), 63-65

1997

59. Adam Smith's Rational Choice Linguistics
    Economic Inquiry, 1997, 35, (3), 672-78 View citations (5)
60. The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation, Christopher J. Berry. Cambridge University Press, 1994, xiv + 271 pages
    Economics and Philosophy, 1997, 13, (1), 134-139

1996

61. THE TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE OF SCIENTIFIC FRAUD
    Rationality and Society, 1996, 8, (3), 261-276 View citations (8)

1995

62. Book Reviews
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 1995, 2, (1), 158-163
63. Stigler's Revival Of Mandevelle: A "Mistake" Free Theory Of Society
    Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 1995, 6, (4), 655-668
    Also in Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 1995, 6, (4), 1-16 (1995)

1994

64. Chaos theory and strategy: Theory, application, and managerial implications
    Strategic Management Journal, 1994, 15, (S2), 167-178 View citations (44)
65. The Fragile Politics of Addiction
    Public Choice, 1994, 81, (3-4), 263-75 View citations (4)
66. The Metrics of Style: Adam Smith Teaches Efficient Rhetoric
    Economic Inquiry, 1994, 32, (1), 138-45 View citations (2)

1993

67. Birth Control and the Amelioration Controversy
    History of Political Economy, 1993, 25, (2), 283-311 View citations (1)

1992

68. Public capital and international labor productivity: Tests based on median-unbiased estimation
    Economics Letters, 1992, 39, (3), 365-368

1991

69. Economic Thought - Adam Smith's Economics: Its Place in the Development of Economic Thought. By Maurice Brown. New York: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. vii, 189. $55.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (4), 996-997

1990

70. Estimating the impact of government R&D
    Economics Letters, 1990, 32, (2), 169-173 View citations (31)
71. Testing the replication hypothesis: When the data set is subject to gross error
    Economics Letters, 1990, 34, (1), 49-53 View citations (3)
72. The Bias in Centrally Planned Prices
    Public Choice, 1990, 67, (3), 213-26 View citations (11)

1989

73. Equilibrium employment of inputs by a rent-seeking firm
    Public Choice, 1989, 60, (2), 177-184
74. The Half-Life of Dead Economists
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1989, 22, (1), 174-83 View citations (5)
75. The Statistical Basis of Athenian-American Constitutional Theory
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 1989, 18, (1), 79-103 View citations (10)
76. Traffic safety effects of sobriety checkpoints and other local DWI programs in New Jersey
    American Journal of Public Health, 1989, 79, (3), 291-293 View citations (1)

1988

77. Increasing the likelihood value by adding constraints
    Economics Letters, 1988, 28, (1), 57-61 View citations (1)
78. The Market for Fame and Fortune
    History of Political Economy, 1988, 20, (4), 615-625 View citations (6)
79. Utility-Enhancing Consumption Constraints
    Economics and Philosophy, 1988, 4, (1), 69-88 View citations (7)
80. When votes are words not deeds: Some evidence from the Nuclear Freeze Referendum
    Public Choice, 1988, 58, (3), 201-216 View citations (13)

1987

81. Adam Smith's Case for Usury Laws
    History of Political Economy, 1987, 19, (3), 387-400 View citations (5)
82. Goethe on Demonic Fiscal Policy
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1987, 9, (1), 89-94
83. Marshall, Orthodoxy and Professionalisation of Economics. By John Maloney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. x, 278. $44.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (3), 871-872

1985

84. The Impossibility of a Complete Methodological Individualist: Reduction When Knowledge Is Imperfect
    Economics and Philosophy, 1985, 1, (1), 101-108 View citations (2)

1984

85. Towards a neoaristotelean theory of politics: A positive account of ‘fairness’
    Public Choice, 1984, 42, (1), 39-54

1983

86. Effects of Government R&D on Private R&D Investment and Productivity: A Macroeconomic Analysis
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1983, 14, (2), 551-561 View citations (43)

1982

87. Diamonds, Water, and Z Goods: an Account of the Paradox of Value
    History of Political Economy, 1982, 14, (3), 312-322 View citations (2)
88. Rational Choice and Morality: Economics and Classical Philosophy
    History of Political Economy, 1982, 14, (1), 1-36 View citations (3)

1978

89. Some Normative Aspects of the Malthusian Controversy
    History of Political Economy, 1978, 10, (2), 271-285 View citations (2)

1976

90. Ricardo and the Iron Law: A Correction of the Record
    History of Political Economy, 1976, 8, (2), 235-251 View citations (3)

Books

2020

1. Towards an Economics of Natural Equals
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (11)

2017

2. Escape from Democracy
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (13)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2017) View citations (13)

Chapters

2016

1. The Potential Effects of Tobacco Control in China: Projections from the China SimSmoke Simulation Model
   Chapter 12 in Economics of Tobacco Control in China From Policy Research to Practice, 2016, pp 189-213

2011

2. The United States Postal Service Business Model: Lessons from the American Railroad Industry?
   Chapter 22 in Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age, 2011 View citations (1)