Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Volume 71, issue 3, 2009

Preface: The economic impact of culture, religion and the law pp. 589-592

Timur Kuran

Explaining the economic trajectories of civilizations: The systemic approach pp. 593-605

Timur Kuran

The institutional dynamics of early modern Eurasian trade: The commenda and the corporation pp. 606-622

Ron Harris

The firm in early Modern China pp. 623-637

Madeleine Zelin

The emergence of English commercial law: Analysis inspired by the Ottoman experience pp. 638-646

Daniel Klerman

A paper economy of faith without faith in paper: A reflection on Islamic institutional history pp. 647-659

Ghislaine Lydon

The competitive enforcement of property rights in medieval Japan: The role of temples and monasteries pp. 660-668

Mikael Adolphson and John Ramseyer

Institutional obstacles to African economic development: State, ethnicity, and custom pp. 669-689

Jean-Philippe Platteau

Decentralized coercion and self-restraint in provincial taxation: The Ottoman Empire, 15th-16th centuries pp. 690-703

Kıvanç Karaman

Law, state power, and taxation in Islamic history pp. 704-717

Metin Cosgel, Thomas Miceli and Rasha Ahmed

Volume 71, issue 2, 2009

Sequencing strategies in large, competitive, ascending price automobile auctions: An experimental examination pp. 75-88

David Grether and Charles Plott

The local best response criterion: An epistemic approach to equilibrium refinement pp. 89-97

Herbert Gintis

On eliciting beliefs in strategic games pp. 98-109

Thomas Palfrey and Stephanie Wang

Forward and backward dynamics in implicitly defined overlapping generations models pp. 110-129

Laura Gardini, Cars Hommes, Fabio Tramontana and Robin de Vilder

Lost in transition: Life satisfaction on the road to capitalism pp. 130-145

Richard Easterlin

Happiness, freedom and control pp. 146-161

Paolo Verme

On preferences for being self-employed pp. 162-171

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Religion, longevity, and cooperation: The case of the craft guild pp. 172-186

Gary Richardson and Michael McBride

A strategic analysis of global warming: Theory and some numbers pp. 187-209

Prajit K. Dutta and Roy Radner

Trust and development pp. 210-220

Jacob Dearmon and Kevin Grier

Strong reciprocity and team production: Theory and evidence pp. 221-232

Jeffrey Carpenter, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Sung-Ha Hwang

Testing theories of reciprocity: Do motivations matter? pp. 233-245

Luca Stanca, Luigino Bruni and Luca Corazzini

Profit sharing and firm size: The role of team production pp. 246-258

John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn

Labor standards, labor-management bargaining and international rivalry pp. 259-272

Jung Hur and Laixun Zhao

Cooperation under alternative punishment institutions: An experiment pp. 273-282

Marco Casari and Luigi Luini

Half empty, half full and why we can agree to disagree forever pp. 283-299

Alexander Zimper

Bank runs as coordination failures: An experimental study pp. 300-317

Rodney Garratt and Todd Keister

Professionals' endorsement of behavioral finance: Does it impact their perception of markets and themselves? pp. 318-329

Lukas Menkhoff and Marina Nikiforow

Theories of choice under risk: Insights from financial markets pp. 330-346

Doron Kliger and Ori Levy

The relationship between risk attitudes and heuristics in search tasks: A laboratory experiment pp. 347-360

Daniel Schunk and Joachim Winter

Evaluation periods and asset prices: Myopic loss aversion at the financial marketplace pp. 361-371

Doron Kliger and Boris Levit

Capital control, debt financing and innovative activity pp. 372-383

Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

Mental accounting and small windfalls: Evidence from an online grocer pp. 384-394

Katherine Milkman and John Beshears

Do consumers pay voluntarily? The case of online music pp. 395-406

Tobias Regner and Javier A. Barria

The endowment effect and the reference state: Evidence and manipulations pp. 407-413

Jack Knetsch and Wei-Kang Wong

Knowledge flows and the geography of networks: A strategic model of small world formation pp. 414-427

Nicolas Carayol and Pascale Roux

Incentives for motivated agents under an administrative constraint pp. 428-440

Miltiadis Makris

Preemptive collusion among corruptible law enforcers pp. 441-450

Andrew Samuel

The appeals process in principal-agent relationships pp. 451-462

Chifeng Dai

The empirical estimation of the cost-minimizing jury size and voting rule in civil trials pp. 463-472

Kerry A. King and Todd M. Nesbit

Optimal supervision with moral hazard pp. 473-485

Yu-Hsiu Lin and Len-Kuo Hu

Bargaining under incomplete information, fairness, and the hold-up problem pp. 486-494

Ferdinand von Siemens

Sraffa's system: Equal rate of profits and the notion of center of gravitation pp. 495-501

Ajit Sinha and Michel-Stéphane Dupertuis

Fairness, price stickiness, and history dependence in decentralized trade pp. 502-514

Christian Korth and Stefan Napel

Quality, reputation and the choice of organizational form pp. 515-527

Michael Vlassopoulos

Exposure order effects and advertising competition pp. 528-538

Oksana Loginova

Do bookmakers possess superior skills to bettors in predicting outcomes? pp. 539-549

Michael A. Smith, David Paton and Leighton Vaughan Williams

Choice, price competition and complexity in markets for health insurance pp. 550-562

Richard G. Frank and Karine Lamiraud

Social interaction and children's academic test scores: Evidence from the National Child Development Study pp. 563-574

Sarah Brown and Karl Taylor

Return of the lost letter: Experimental framing does not enhance altruism in an everyday context pp. 575-578

Daniel M.T. Fessler

N.N. Taleb, Editor, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, New York (April 17, 2007) 400 pp., index, $17.79 (Hardcover), ISBN: 1400063515 pp. 579-584

Stephen Kinsella

B.S. Frey and A. Stutzer, Editors, Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-disciplinary Field, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA/London, England (2007) vii + 286 pp., index, $32.00, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-06263-3 pp. 584-587

Catherine Eckel and Angela de Oliveira

Volume 71, issue 1, 2009

Darwin, Darwinism and social Darwinism: What do we learn from Darwin's theory of social evolution? pp. 1-3

Alain Marciano and Roger Koppl

Darwin and the evolutionary foundations of society pp. 4-9

Michael T. Ghiselin

Charles Darwin on human evolution pp. 10-19

Michael Ruse

Was Darwin or Spencer the father of laissez-faire social Darwinism? pp. 20-28

Richard Weikart

Sympathy, evolution, and The Economist pp. 29-36

David Levy and Sandra J. Peart

Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter's Social Darwinism in American Thought pp. 37-51

Thomas Leonard

Why Hayek is a Darwinian (after all)? Hayek and Darwin on social evolution pp. 52-61

Alain Marciano

Human knowledge, rules, and the spontaneous evolution of society in the social thought of Darwin, Hayek, and Boulding pp. 62-74

Thomas Marmefelt