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Working Papers

2011

1. Smiley or Frowney: The effect of emotions and framing in a downstream water pollution game
   2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (7)
2. Transcending the Limitations of Environmental Economic Framing: Toward a Metaeconomics of Environmental Choice
   2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2006

3. Is Individual Behavior Oriented to Self-interest, Other-interest or both? Empirical Evidence from a Case Study of Social Capital
   2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
4. What motivates farmers to sequester carbon: an empirical investigation
   2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2005

5. Climate Change and Farm Use of Weather Information
   2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

1981

6. PROFIT VOLATILITY AND WATER-ENERGY, DEMAND ELASTICITIES IN CITRUS PRODUCTION
   1981 Annual Meeting, July 26-29, Clemson, South Carolina, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

1980

7. ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS: DIFFERENCES IN PHILOSOPHY
   1980 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

1979

8. Estimation of Crop Water Response and Economic Optimization for Continuously Growing Crops
   Staff Paper Series, University of Florida, Food and Resource Economics Department View citations (1)

1975

9. INCOMMENSURABLES, TRADEOFFS AND THE MULTIPLE PRODUCT MODELS: WHY THE CONFUSION
   1975 Annual Meeting, August 10-13, Columbus, Ohio, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Undated

10. Blowing Hot and Cold: Carbon and the Question of Climate Change
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
11. Carbon Emissions the Problem: Carbon Storage the Solution?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
12. Carbon Market Trading in a “State of Fear”
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
13. Carbon Trading in Europe is on the (Near) Horizon
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
14. Conservation Compliance Under the House and Senate Versions of the 2013 Farm Bill: A Role for Empathy Nudging?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
15. Declining Crop Diversity and Increasing Industrialization
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
16. Do Emotions Matter in Environmental Choice? The Effect of:) and:(
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
17. Downstream Pollution 2: Does Framing Affect Genders Differently?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
18. Downstream Pollution: Do Gender and Emotion Matter?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
19. EVALUATING THE COSTS OF ALTERNATIVE WATER QUALITY POLICIES: EFFLUENT CHARGES OR DIRECT CONTROLS?
    1990 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Vancouver, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
20. Empathy Conditioned Conservation: "Walking-in-the-Shoes-of-Others" as a Conservation Farmer
    2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
    Also in Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics View citations (2)
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
    See also Journal Article Empathy-Conditioned Conservation: “Walking in the Shoes of Others” as a Conservation Farmer, Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press (2011) View citations (25) (2011)
21. Empathy Conservation: What Did We Learn From the Experiments Testing the Metaeconomic Framework and Dual-interest Theory?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
22. Empathy Nudging as a New Component of Conservation Programs
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
23. Empathy Tempering Economic Choice: The Empirical Evidence
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
24. Farmer Views on the Emerging Carbon Market
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
25. Gender in Conservation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Fines and Empathy Nudging
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
26. Green to Gold: Business and Industry Moving Onto the Eco-Path
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics View citations (1)
27. Inducing Empathy or Imposing a Fine? Finding Solutions to the Downstream Water Pollution Problem
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
28. Industrialization and Globalization: A Battle Over Values?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
29. Kyoto is Nearing Ratification: Carbon Storage Opportunity?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
30. Kyoto, Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases - Missing from the Political Table?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
31. Let’s Be Practical: A New Integration in the Approach to Economic Policy
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
32. Moving Beyond Gloomy Environmental Policy
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
33. Next Steps Toward Storing Carbon in Nebraska
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
34. Offsetting the Oil Addiction: Farmers Motivated to Sequester Carbon
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
35. Reducing the Pace of Global Warming: Can the Environmental Buyer Compete with the Climate Exchange in Buying Carbon Offsets?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
36. Resolving Water Use Conflicts by “Walking-in-the-Shoes” of Others: The Case of Tuttle Creek Lake
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
37. Sustainable Practices Like Recycling: Could Colleges and Universities be Role Models?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
38. Tempering the Over-Use and Abuse of Common-Pool Resources
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
39. The Myth of the Rational Market: Nudging Each Other Away from Fool’s Gold
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
40. Toward Sustainability in Business, Industry and Community: Empathy Tempered Choices
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
41. Two and a Half Cheers for the Midwestern Bourgeoisie: Role of the Virtues in Tempering Business Decisions
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
42. VALUES, PUBLIC CHOICE, AND THE DESIGN OF PERMIT BASED AGRICULTURAL WATER INSTITUTIONS
    1988 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
43. What Price the Moral High Ground in a Competitive Economic Environment?
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics
44. Who Should Own the Property Rights? Revisiting the Downstream Water Pollution Problem
    Cornhusker Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agricultural Economics

Journal Articles

2025

1. Cargo-Cult Economics to Metaeconomics: Toward a Humanomics with a Theory
   Review of Behavioral Economics, 2025, 12, (3), 257-289

2024

2. Towards Dual Interest Theory in Metaeconomics
   Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2024, 36, (1), 7-25

2023

3. Book Review: Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism, by Glory M. Liu
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2023, 7, (1), 53-55

2022

4. Book Review: Why Liberalism Failed, by Deneen, P. J
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2022, 6, (1), 47-49 View citations (1)

2021

5. Metaeconomic sensibilities: Toward The Human Firm on a sustainable blue spaceship
   Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2021, 5, (S1), 55-64

2018

6. Does Might Make Right? An Experiment on Assigning Property Rights
   Ecological Economics, 2018, 150, (C), 229-240 View citations (6)

2016

7. Farm Bill 2014: An Experimental Investigation of Conservation Compliance
   Journal of Sustainable Development, 2016, 9, (3), 23

2015

8. Walk in my shoes: Nudging for empathy conservation
   Ecological Economics, 2015, 118, (C), 147-158 View citations (32)

2012

9. Walking in the shoes of others: Experimental testing of dual-interest and empathy in environmental choice
   Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2012, 41, (5), 642-653 View citations (14)

2011

10. Empathy-Conditioned Conservation: “Walking in the Shoes of Others” as a Conservation Farmer
    Land Economics, 2011, 87, (3) View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper Empathy Conditioned Conservation: "Walking-in-the-Shoes-of-Others" as a Conservation Farmer, 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin View citations (1)

2010

11. Deirdre N. McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (2006) ISBN 0-226-55663-8 xviii + 616 pp., US$22.50
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2010, 39, (5), 610-612

2009

12. "I don't want to be selling my soul": Two experiments in environmental economics
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2009, 38, (2), 221-229 View citations (9)

2008

13. Robert H. Frank, What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2004) ISBN 0-691-00672-5 xii+203 pp., US$27.95
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2008, 37, (3), 1287-1289 View citations (1)

2007

14. Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (4), 1120-1122

2006

15. Toward a dual motive metaeconomic theory
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2006, 35, (4), 634-651 View citations (8)

2005

16. Global Justice and Transnational Politics: Essays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalization
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005, 87, (2), 532-534

2004

17. Towards a centerpiece for ecological economics
    Ecological Economics, 2004, 49, (3), 287-301 View citations (11)

2003

18. Social Capital, Attachment Value, and Rural Development: A Conceptual Framework and Application of Contingent Valuation
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (5), 1201-1207 View citations (5)
19. The Global Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for International Cooperation
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (1), 282-283

2002

20. Agricultural Industrialization: A Metaeconomics Look at the Metaphors by which we Live
    Review of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 24, (2), 410-427 View citations (9)
    Also in Review of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 24, (2), 410-427 (2002) View citations (9)
21. The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics: Gerald A. Cory, Jr.; New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999, 134 pp., $71.50 USD, ISBN 0-306-46183-8
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2002, 31, (5), 583-586

1999

22. Divided self models of the socioeconomic person: the metaeconomics approach
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1999, 28, (3), 267-288 View citations (19)

1998

23. Regulation of technology adoption when individuals pursue multiple utility
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1998, 27, (6), 701-719 View citations (9)

1995

24. Conservation technology adoption decisions and the theory of planned behavior
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 1995, 16, (4), 581-598 View citations (71)
25. MODIFYING THE NEO-CLASSICAL APPROACH TO TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WITH BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE MODELS
    Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1995, 27, (01), 14 View citations (30)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1995, 27, (1), 67-80 (1995) View citations (32)

1993

26. MELDING PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INTERESTS IN WATER RIGHTS MARKETS
    Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1993, 25, (01), 15 View citations (2)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1993, 25, (1), 69-83 (1993) View citations (2)

1991

27. Water Permitting Behavior under the 1972 Florida Water Resources Act
    Land Economics, 1991, 67, (3), 340-351 View citations (5)

1990

28. The Evolution of Water Institutions in Florida: A Neoinstitutionalist Perspective
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1990, 24, (4), 1059-1077 View citations (2)

1988

29. Allocatable Fixed Inputs and Jointness in Agricultural Production: Implications For Economic Modeling: Comment
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988, 70, (4), 947-949 View citations (10)
30. Attitudes and Farmer Conservation Behavior
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988, 70, (1), 12-19 View citations (89)
31. Blaikie, Piers, and Harold Brookfield. Land Degradation and Society. New York: Metheun, 1978, xxiv + 296 pp., $16.95
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988, 70, (1), 202-203
32. MACHINERY REPLACEMENT, MULTIPLE OPTIMA, AND THE 1986 TAX REFORM ACT
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988, 20, (01), 9 View citations (5)

1986

33. An Economic Model of Soil Conservation: Comment
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1986, 68, (3), 739-742 View citations (8)

1984

34. Commentary
    Agriculture and Human Values, 1984, 1, (3), 10-14
35. IRRIGATION WATER SUPPLY AS A BIOECONOMIC PROCESS
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1984, 16, (2), 10 View citations (1)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1984, 16, (2), 73-82 (1984) View citations (1)

1983

36. RISK-RETURN ASSESSMENT OF IRRIGATION DECISIONS IN HUMID REGIONS
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983, 15, (01), 9 View citations (22)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1983, 15, (1), 135-143 (1983) View citations (21)

1981

37. AREAS OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN: FLORIDA'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE GREEN SWAMP
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1981, 13, (2), 7
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1981, 13, (2), 149-155 (1981)
38. Economic valuation of marsh areas for marine production processes
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1981, 8, (2), 175-186 View citations (25)

1980

39. Howe, Charles W. Natural Resource Economics: Issues, Analysis and Policy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1979, xxviii + 350 pp., $19.95
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1980, 62, (2), 365-367

1978

40. ISSUES AND PROBLEMS IN AGRICULTURAL WATER DEMAND ESTIMATION FROM SECONDARY DATA SOURCES
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1978, 10, (2), 6 View citations (2)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1978, 10, (2), 101-106 (1978) View citations (2)

1977

41. WATER PRICE RESPONSIVENESS AND ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION - THE FLORIDA EXAMPLE
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1977, 09, (01), 7 View citations (1)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1977, 9, (1), 137-143 (1977) View citations (1)

1976

42. WATER ALLOCATION UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION: SOME ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS
    Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1976, 08, (2), 7 View citations (4)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1976, 8, (2), 57-63 (1976) View citations (3)

Books

2020

1. Metaeconomics
   Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics, Palgrave Macmillan

Chapters

2022

1. Metaeconomic Solutions to Dysfunctional Water Markets
   Palgrave Macmillan

2020

2. Conclusion
   Palgrave Macmillan
3. Drifting Isles and Re-integration on the Metaeconomics Continent
   Palgrave Macmillan
4. Education Policy: Need for Science and Ethics
   Palgrave Macmillan
5. Elections Policy: Voting Is Not Only About Self-Interest
   Palgrave Macmillan
6. Family Policy: Failed Liberalism and Lost Sensibilities
   Palgrave Macmillan
7. Financial Policy: Tempering Greed
   Palgrave Macmillan
8. Food Policy: Stability, Sustainability, and Safety
   Palgrave Macmillan
9. Formal Metaeconomics: Recycling Choices
   Palgrave Macmillan
10. Health Policy: Universal Pre-existing Conditions
    Palgrave Macmillan
11. Income and Wealth Policy: Toward Optimal Inequality
    Palgrave Macmillan
12. Introduction
    Palgrave Macmillan
13. Landscape of the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory
    Palgrave Macmillan
14. Metaeconomics as Behavioral Economics and the Focus on Happiness
    Palgrave Macmillan
15. Natural Resource Policy: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
    Palgrave Macmillan
16. Saving Capitalism: Bring Empathy into Mind and Action
    Palgrave Macmillan
17. Tax Policy: Pay the Price
    Palgrave Macmillan