American Journal of Economics and Sociology

1941 - 2025

Current editor(s): Laurence S. Moss

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Volume 66, issue 5, 2007

Candace Eleanor Genovese: Memoriam, In Exaltation, and Dolor pp. 857-861

Frank C. Genovese

What If the Leader of the Central Bank Told Hilarious Jokes and Did Card Tricks? A Panel of Experts pp. 863-887

Perry Mehrling, Laurence S. Moss, Jocelyn Pixley and George Tavlas

Reconciling Weber and Mises on Understanding Human Action pp. 889-899

Gene Callahan

Changes in the Effectiveness of State Medicaid Drug Program Cost‐Containment Policies Following OBRA 1990 pp. 901-924

William J. Moore and Etienne E. Pracht

The Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Per‐Student Public Education Expenditures at the State Level: 1987–2000 pp. 925-936

Mark P. Gius

A Scheme to Determine Tax Rates Fairly and Quantitatively pp. 937-957

Qihou Zhou

The Dangers of Automobile Travel: A Reconsideration pp. 959-975

Roger Roots

Against Both Private and Public Counterfeiting pp. 977-984

Mateusz Machaj

The Welfare Effects of the National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA) of 1984 and the National Cooperative Production Amendments (NCPA) of 1993 pp. 985-1004

Yi Liu, Margaret O’Reilly‐Allen and Zaher Zantout

Hostile Territory: High‐Tension Religion and the Jewish Peddler pp. 1005-1027

Colleen E. H. Berndt

Deception in Markets: An Economic Analysis – Caroline Gerschlager pp. 1029-1032

Sheryl Tuttle Ross

Constructing a World Fit for Marxism: Utopia and Utopistics of Professor Wallerstein pp. 1033-1052

Andrew Savchenko

Volume 66, issue 4, 2007

My Life, My Times, and My Research: An Autobiographical Sketch pp. 647-660

Roman A. Ohrenstein

The Talmudic Doctrine of “The Benefit of a Pleasure”: Psychological Well‐Being in Talmudic Literature pp. 661-680

Roman A. Ohrenstein

The Pelagian Controversy: An Economic Analysis pp. 681-696

John Beck

The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers pp. 697-726

Russell N. James and Deanna L. Sharpe

The Agency Relationship in Churches: An Empirical Analysis pp. 727-746

Charles Zech

Religious Market Competition and Clergy Salary: Evidence from SBC Congregations in the South pp. 747-763

Michelle W. Trawick and Stephen E. Lile

Religion and International Trade: Does the Sharing of a Religious Culture Facilitate the Formation of Trade Networks? pp. 765-794

Joshua Lewer and Hendrik Van den Berg

Protestantism, Labor Force Participation, and Employment Across Countries pp. 795-816

Horst Feldmann

Culture and Economic Systems pp. 817-855

Frederic L. Pryor

Volume 66, issue 3, 2007

What Do Bettors Want? Determinants of Pari‐Mutuel Betting Preference pp. 465-491

Marshall Gramm, C. Nicholas McKinney, Douglas H. Owens and Matt E. Ryan

The Double‐Auction Gambling Market: An Experimental Examination pp. 493-532

Kyle Hampton

State Lotteries and Agency Costs: Hidden Costs to Nonparticipants pp. 533-544

Richard B. Whitaker

Hitting the Jackpot or Hitting the Skids: Entertainment, Poverty, and the Demand for State Lotteries pp. 545-570

Garrick Blalock, David Just and Daniel H. Simon

Voting with a Hand on the Bible and Not on the Wallet: The 1996 Video Poker Referendum in Louisiana pp. 571-591

John L. Scott and Paul Nelson

Do Casinos Cause Economic Growth? pp. 593-607

Douglas Walker and John Jackson

Problems in Quantifying the Social Costs and Benefits of Gambling pp. 609-645

Douglas Walker

Volume 66, issue 2, 2007

Editor's Introduction pp. 261-266

L. S. Moss

Economists' Opinions of Economists' Work pp. 267-288

William L. Davis

The Input Relationship Between Co‐Authors in Economics: A Production Function Approach pp. 289-308

Marshall H. Medoff

Is There a Free‐Market Economist in the House? The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members pp. 309-334

Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern

What Do Economists Talk About? A Linguistic Analysis of Published Writing in Economic Journals pp. 335-378

Nils Goldschmidt and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Theory, Reality, and Performativity in Markets pp. 379-398

Patrik Aspers

PAC Congressional Election Campaign Contributions and Other Political or Economic Influences on the Voter Participation Rate pp. 399-412

Richard Cebula

Are Congressional Black Caucus Members More Reliable? Loyalty Screening and Committee Assignments of Newly Elected Legislators pp. 413-431

Franklin Mixon and Amanda C. Pagels

HOPE VI Housing Program: Was it Effective? pp. 433-442

Michael Brazley and John I. Gilderbloom

Testing a Hazard Model for the Housing Market in New Orleans pp. 443-455

Amaresh Das

The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard pp. 457-464

Walter Block, Per Henrik Hansen and Peter Klein

Volume 66, issue 1, 2007

Preface and Acknowledgments pp. 1-5

Steven V. Hicks and Daniel E. Shannon

Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom pp. 7-23

Steven V. Hicks

1 From a State of War to Perpetual Peace pp. 25-47

Edward Demenchonok

2 Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason pp. 49-70

Karl‐Otto Apel

3 Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes pp. 71-86

James P. Sterba

4 Human Rights, Global Justice, and Disaggregated States: John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, and Anne‐Marie Slaughter pp. 87-111

Alyssa R. Bernstein

5 Beyond Intrinsic Value: Undermining the Justification of Ecoterrorism pp. 113-125

Charles S. Brown

6 Does Kant Have Anything to Teach Us about Environmental Ethics? pp. 127-149

Marc Lucht

7 A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism pp. 151-171

Xiaorong Li

8 Culture, Evil, and Horror pp. 173-193

Paul Santilli

9 Persons: Natural, Functional, or Ethical Kind? pp. 195-216

John P. Lizza

10 The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism pp. 217-235

John Sanbonmatsu

11 A Rediscovery of Heaven‐and‐Human Oneness pp. 237-259

Keping Wang