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Working Papers

2009

1. Can A Rational Choice Framework Make Sense of Anorexia Nervosa?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2005

2. Modeling Alternative Motives for Dieting
   HEW, University Library of Munich, Germany
   See also Journal Article Modeling Alternative Motives for Dieting, Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association (2006) View citations (6) (2006)

Journal Articles

2015

1. Progressive Era Origins of the Regulatory State and the Economist as Expert
   History of Political Economy, 2015, 47, (5), 49-76 View citations (3)

2011

2. Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy: Adversaries or Allies?
   History of Political Economy, 2011, 43, (3), 429-469 View citations (1)

2009

3. American Economic Reform in the Progressive Era: Its Foundational Beliefs and Their Relation to Eugenics
   History of Political Economy, 2009, 41, (1), 109-141 View citations (6)
4. Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 71, (1), 37-51 View citations (9)
5. Redeemed by History
   History of Economic Ideas, 2009, 17, (1), 189-195

2008

6. REVIEW ESSAY: INCREASING HAPPINESS BY THINNING THE HERD
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2008, 30, (1), 117-126
7. Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness
   Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (4), 356-360 View citations (41)
8. Robert H. Frank, Falling behind: how rising inequality harms the middle class
   Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (2), 158-164

2006

9. Modeling Alternative Motives for Dieting
   Eastern Economic Journal, 2006, 32, (1), 115-131 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Modeling Alternative Motives for Dieting, HEW (2005) (2005)
10. Review
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2006, 17, (1), 63-66

2005

11. Book Review: S TEVEN D. L EVITT and S TEPHEN J. D UBNER (2005) Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: WilliamMorrow. 242 pp., $25.95
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2005, 16, (3), 313-317
12. Mistaking Eugenics for Social Darwinism: Why Eugenics Is Missing from the History of American Economics
    History of Political Economy, 2005, 37, (5), 200-233 View citations (8)
13. Protecting Family and Race
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2005, 64, (3), 757-791 View citations (8)
14. Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19, (4), 207-224 View citations (9)

2004

15. Making Betty Crocker Assume the Position
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2004, 26, (1), 115-122
16. The Price is Wrong: Causes and Consequences of Ethical Restraint of Trade
    Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2004, 14, (2), 20 View citations (4)

2003

17. Reviews
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2003, 14, (1), 71-74
18. “A Certain Rude Honestyâ€: John Bates Clark as a Pioneering Neoclassical Economist
    History of Political Economy, 2003, 35, (3), 521-558 View citations (8)
19. “More Merciful and Not Less Effectiveâ€: Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era
    History of Political Economy, 2003, 35, (4), 687-712 View citations (9)

2001

20. Are rival theories of smoking underdetermined?
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001, 8, (2), 229-251 View citations (2)
21. Armando C. Ochangco, Rationality in Economic Thought: Methodological Ideas on the History of Political Economy (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 1999) pp. xv, 332, $100.00. ISBN 1 85898 955 8
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2001, 23, (1), 115-118
22. Reflection on rules in science: an invisible-hand perspective
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2001, 9, (2), 141-168 View citations (3)
23. Reviews
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2001, 12, (1), 81-84

2000

24. New on Paternalism and Public Policy
    Economics and Philosophy, 2000, 16, (2), 323-331 View citations (5)
25. Steven G. Medema (Ed.): Coasean Economics: Lawn and Economics and the New Institutional Economics
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2000, 11, (3), 285-288
26. The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents
    History of Political Economy, 2000, 32, (5), 117-144 View citations (29)

1999

27. An economic theory of cigarette addiction
    Journal of Health Economics, 1999, 18, (1), 1-29 View citations (102)

1993

28. Academic Rhetoric in the Policy Arena: The Case of Capital Gains Taxation
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1993, 19, (4), 459-479 View citations (5)

Books

2016

1. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (25)

Chapters

2017

1. A Response to My Friendly Critics
   A chapter in Including a Symposium on New Directions in Sraffa Scholarship, 2017, vol. 35B, pp 383-396

2016

2. Redeeming American Economic Life
   A chapter in Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, 2016

2012

3. From the Progressives to the Institutionalists: What the First World War did and did not do to American Economics
   A chapter in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: A Research Annual, 2012, pp 177-190

2005

4. INEQUALITY OF WHAT AMONG WHOM?: RIVAL CONCEPTIONS OF DISTRIBUTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY
   A chapter in A Research Annual, 2005, pp 75-118