Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Volume 9, issue 4, 1988

On the slippery slope: Conformance vs defection in a multi-party prisoners' dilemma pp. 325-343

K. K. Fung

The impact of experience on prices and profits in experimental duopoly markets pp. 345-365

Bruce Benson and M. D. Faminow

The internal organization of complex teams: Bounded rationality and the logic of hierarchies pp. 367-380

Antonio Camacho and Joseph Persky

The american dream and central city blight are american pp. 381-392

Moshe Adler

Policy research for improved organizational performance: A case from the World Bank pp. 393-403

Nathaniel H. Leff

Predatory pricing in a multiple market experiment: A note pp. 405-417

Glenn Harrison

The modern corporation: Profits, power, growth and performance: Dennis C. Mueller (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1986) pp. xxii + 327, $32.50 pp. 419-422

Ronald Wintrobe

Rules in the making: A statistical analysis of regulatory agency behavior: Wesley A. Magat, Alan J. Krupnick and Winston Harrington, (Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 1986) pp. xiii + 182, $22.50 pp. 423-425

Daniel Spulber

Essays on individualism: Modern ideology in anthropological perspective: Louis Dumont, (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1986) pp. x + 284, $27.50 pp. 425-429

Viktor Vanberg

Volume 9, issue 3, 1988

Optimization cost pp. 213-228

John Conlisk

Contracts and asymmetric information in the theory of the firm pp. 229-246

David Easley and Maureen O'Hara

Transaction costs as determinants of opportunism in integrated and independent sales forces pp. 247-264

Erin Anderson

The empirical determinants of vertical integration pp. 265-279

Richard E. Caves and Ralph Bradburd

Upstream vertical integration in the aluminum and tin industries: A comparative study of the choice between market and intrafirm coordination pp. 281-299

Jean Francois Hennart

Market behavior in bid, offer, and double auctions: A Reexmination pp. 301-314

James Walker and Arlington Williams

Discovery and the capitalist process: Israel M. Kirzner, (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985) pp. xiii + 183, $22.50 pp. 315-318

Harvey Leibenstein

Induction: Processes of inference, learning and discovery: John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett, and Paul R. Thagard, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986) pp. xiv + 385, $24.95 pp. 318-321

Howard Margolis

The economics of imperfect competition: A spatial approach: Melvin L. Greenhut, George Norman, and Chao-shun Hung, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987) pp. xx + 408, $54.50 hardback, $17.95 paper pp. 321-323

F. M. Scherer

Volume 9, issue 2, 1988

Risk attitude under two alternative theories of choice under risk pp. 119-136

Ronald W. Hilton

An experiment on the formation of expectations pp. 137-151

Barbara Bergmann

A survey of agency models of organizations pp. 153-185

Daniel Levinthal

Scattered landholdings in common property systems pp. 187-201

John Quiggin

The control revolution: Technological and economic origins of the information society: James R. Beniger (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986) pp. x+493, $25.00 pp. 203-206

Jay David Bolter

The economic law of motion of modern society: A Marx-Keynes-Schumpeter centennial: Hans-Jurgen Wagener and Jan W. Drukker, eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986) pp. viii+236. $39.50 pp. 206-209

John E. Elliott

Rational choice: The contrast between economics and psychology: Robin M. Hogarth and Melvin W. Reder, eds. (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1987) pp. ix+332, $30.00 pp. 209-211

Benjamin Gilad

Volume 9, issue 1, 1988

Variable risk preferences and adaptive aspirations pp. 5-24

James G. March

Imperfect decisions in organizations: Toward a theory of internal structure pp. 25-44

Ronald A. Heiner

On the incidence of profit and equity sharing: Theory and an application to the high tech sector pp. 45-58

Stephen C. Smith

On the instability of mixed-strategy Nash equilibria pp. 59-69

Dale Stahl

Are stock prices excessively sensitive to current information? pp. 71-85

Wayne Joerding

A note on the use of businessmen as subjects in sealed offer markets pp. 87-100

Douglas V. Dejong, Robert Forsythe and Wilfred C. Uecker

Sraffa, Okun, and the theory of the imperfectly competitive firm pp. 101-105

A. L. Levine

Consumer sovereignty and human interests: G. Peter Penz, (Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1986) pp. xvi + 242, $34.50 pp. 107-111

Paul P. Streeten

The market as an economic process: Ludwig M. Lachmann, (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986) pp. xii + 173, $29.95 pp. 112-113

Richard Langlois

The capitalist revolution: Peter L. Berger, (Basic Books, New York, 1987) pp. v + 262, $17.95 pp. 114-117

Gary Dymski

Volume 8, issue 4, 1987

Perception, judgment, and motivation in manufacturing enterprises: Findings and preliminary hypotheses from in-depth interviews pp. 543-565

Hugh H. Schwartz

Activity choice: A new approach to economic behavior pp. 567-585

Gordon Winston

Uncertainty and partial adjustment in double-auction markets pp. 587-601

Steven T. Buccola and Vernon L. Smith

The determination of the promotion process in organizations and of earnings differentials pp. 603-616

Toshiaki Tachibanaki

Transaction cost economics: The comparative contracting perspective pp. 617-625

Oliver Williamson

Methodological individualism under fire: A reply to Jackson pp. 627-635

Geoffrey Brennan

Jackson and the prisoner's dillema pp. 637-640

Gordon Tullock

Decision weights in anticipated utility theory: Response to Segal pp. 641-645

John Quiggin

The multiple self: Jon Elster, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 1986) pp. ix+240, $29.95 pp. 647-651

Kenneth E. Boulding

Money and markets: Essays by Robert W. Clower: Robert W. Clower, edited by Donald A. Walker (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984) pp. xv+277, $37.50 pp. 651-653

Meir Kohn

The poverty of `Development Economics': Deepak Lal, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1985) pp. vi+153, $17.50 (cloth), $6.95 (paper) pp. 653-656

Mir Anjum Altaf

Economics as a process: Richard N. Langlois, ed., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986) 272 pp., $37.50 pp. 656-658

John Wallis

Volume 8, issue 3, 1987

Introduction pp. 333-337

Alfredo Medio

Ergodic fluctuations in deterministic economic models pp. 339-361

Richard H. Day and Wayne Shafer

Liquidity-profit rate cycles in a capitalist economy pp. 363-376

Duncan Foley

The macroeconomics of disequilibrium pp. 377-395

Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy

Strange attractors in a multisector business cycle model pp. 397-411

Hans-Walter Lorenz

Oscillations in optimal growth models pp. 413-427

Alfredo Medio

Global equilibrium dynamics with stationary recursive preferences pp. 429-452

Jess Benhabib, M. Majumdar and Kazuo Nishimura

Modeling economic policy with non-symmetric losses and risk aversion pp. 453-467

P. Caravani

A macroeconomic limit cycle with financial perturbations pp. 469-495

Willi Semmler

On rational dynamic strategies in infinite horizon models where agents discount the future pp. 497-511

Rose-Anne Dana and Luigi Montrucchio

On two-regime discrete-time models: A methodological note pp. 513-530

Olivier de La Grandville

The fertility revolution: A supply-demand analysis: Richard A. Easterlin and Eileen M. Crimmins, (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985) pp xix + 209, $24.95 pp. 531-533

Morton Owen Schapiro

The reason of rules: Constitutional political economy: Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985) pp v + 176, $34.50 pp. 533-536

Peter Navarro

The rhetoric of economics: Donald N. Mccloskey, (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1985) pp. xv + 209, $21.50 pp. 536-538

Michael W. Jackson

Corporate capital investment: A behavioral approach: Philip Bromiley, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1986) pp. xii + 175, $37.50 pp. 538-540

Barbara Bergmann

Volume 8, issue 2, 1987

Introduction pp. 171-174

Stanley Kaish and Benny Gilad

Entrepreneurship, adaptation and legitimation: A macro-behavioral perspective pp. 175-189

Amitai Etzioni

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial training, and x-efficiency theory pp. 191-205

Harvey Leibenstein

Comments on the papers by Etzioni and Leibenstein pp. 207-212

Joshua Ronen

Caveat innovator: Strategic and structural characteristics of new product introductions pp. 213-229

John C. Hilke and Philip B. Nelson

Preference paradoxes and lexicographic choice pp. 231-248

Jose Encarnacion

Advance production in posted offer markets pp. 249-264

Stuart Mestelman, Deborah Welland and Douglas Welland

Investment in lumpy capacity pp. 265-277

Pankaj Ghemawat

Monitoring multiple agents: The role of hierarchies pp. 279-305

Henning Bohn

The production effect of discrimination: A conceptual Investigation pp. 307-314

Kenneth Chan

The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms markets, relational contracting: Oliver E. Williamson, (The Free Press, New York, 1985) pp. xiv + 450, $25.00 pp. 316-318

Lee Alston

Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought: Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (Basic Books, New York, 1986), pp. x + 244, $16.95 pp. 318-321

Michael Barzelay

Decision making under uncertainty: The case of state-dependent preferences: Edi Karni, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1985), pp. vii + 147, $22.50 pp. 321-323

Ronald A. Heiner

The roots of success: Why children follow in their parents' career footsteps: David N. Laband and Bernard F. Lentz, (Praeger Publishers, New York, 1985) pp. xii + 181, $25.95 pp. 323-326

Sharone L. Maital and Shlomo Maital

The corporate imagination: How big companies make mistakes: Peter Earl, (M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1984) pp. 236, $35.00 (hardcover), $14.95 (paperback) pp. 326-327

Edith Penrose

Volume 8, issue 1, 1987

Chocolate-box soldiers: A critique of `an economic theory of military tactics' pp. 1-11

M. W. Jackson

The function of authority in transaction cost economics pp. 13-38

Gregory Dow

An agency theory of unionism pp. 39-60

Roger L. Faith and Joseph Reid

Cognitive dissonance and utility maximization: A general framework pp. 61-73

Benjamin Gilad, Stanley Kaish and Peter Loeb

A theory of public enterprise behavior pp. 75-96

Brian Levy

Maximal quality selection and discrimination in employment pp. 97-112

Douglas Davis

Are M.I.T. students rational?: Report on a survey pp. 113-120

Nils Gottfries and Keith Hylton

Is firm-sponsored education viable? pp. 121-136

M. Feuer, H. Glick and A. Desai

Still searching pp. 137-144

John D. Hey

Some remarks on Quiggin's anticipated utility pp. 145-154

Uzi Segal

The Japanese corporation: James C. Abegglen and George Stalk, Jr., Kaisha: (Basic Books, New York, 1985) pp.x+307, $22.50 pp. 156-158

John Rizzo

In defense of organization theory: A reply to the critics: Lex Donaldson (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985) pp. xiii+196, $14.95 pp. 158-160

J. Stephen Ferris

Economics without equilibrium: Nicholas Kaldor, (M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1985) 79 pp., $12.50 pp. 161-163

John G. Cross

Betting on ideas: Wars, invention, inflation: Reuven Brenner, (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1985) pp. xxii+247, $32.00 pp. 163-165

John Nye

The firm and financial markets in the Swedish micro-to-macro model -- theory, model and verification: Gunnar Eliasson, (The Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research, Distributed by Almquist and Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1986) pp. 419 pp. 165-168

Guy H. Orcutt

Collective decision making: An economic outlook: Shmuel Nitzan and Jacob Paroush, (Cambridge University Press, London and New York, 1985) pp. 132, $29.95 pp. 168-170

Bernard Grofman