Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

1980 - 2025

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Volume 7, issue 4, 1986

The economy as an evolutionary pulsator pp. 341-349

Richard M. Goodwin

The evolution of transaction governance in the tectile-clothing industry pp. 351-374

Sergio Mariotti and Gian Carlo Cainarca

Stability by deterrence in cooperative non-sidepayment n-person games pp. 375-402

H. Andrew Michener, Young C. Choi and David C. Dettman

Stoplight sales and sidewalk solicitations: Some simple economics of forced consumption pp. 403-414

David Laband

Economic behavior, marriage and fertility: Two lessons from polygyny pp. 415-424

Shoshana Grossbard

Volume 7, issue 3, 1986

Is capitalism necessary?: A critique of the neoclassical economics of organization pp. 225-233

Michael Barzelay and Lee Thomas

A positive approach to non-cooperative games pp. 235-251

James Friedman and Robert Rosenthal

Equity in economic relationships: Towards a positive theory pp. 253-264

C. Alan Garner

Firms' market behavior under imperfect information and economic natural selection pp. 265-290

Ulrich Witt

An advantage of the multiproduct firm: The transferability of firm-specific capital pp. 291-302

David T. Levy and Lawrence J. Haber

The effects of rent asymmetries in posted offer markets pp. 303-316

Douglas Davis and Arlington Williams

An agency model of search for alternatives pp. 317-327

Joseph Tzur

The economics of conformism: Stephen R.G. Jones, (Blackwell, Oxford, 1984) x+123 pp., $24.95 pp. 329-331

Alison Booth

The diffusion of mature technologies: George F. Ray, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984) ix+96 pp., $24.95 pp. 332-334

Jon Nelson

Choosing the right pond: Human behavior and the quest for status: Robert H. Frank, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985) x+306 pp., $22.95 pp. 334-336

Reuven Brenner

Explaining technical change: Jon Elster, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983) 273 pp., $39.50 (hardcover), $12.95 (paperback) pp. 336-339

Richard Nelson

Volume 7, issue 2, 1986

Agents' evaluations and the disparity in measures of economic loss pp. 115-127

James D. Marshall, Jack Knetsch and J. A. Sinden

Two microdynamic models of exchange pp. 129-146

Daniel Friedman

Corporate planning and capital investment pp. 147-170

Philip Bromiley

Matching behavior and collective action: Some experimental evidence pp. 171-198

Joel M. Guttman

The organization of vertically related transactions in the Canadian forest products industries pp. 199-212

Steven Globerman and Richard Schwindt

Selfishness, altruism, and aationality: A theory of social choice: Howard Margolis, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1982) pp. xi+ 194, $29.50. Republished in paperback (Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL) $8.00 pp. 213-216

Gordon Winston

Decision making at the top: The shaping of strategic direction: Gordon Donaldson and Jay W. Lorsch, (Basic Books, New York, 1983) pp. ix + 208, $16.95 pp. 217-219

Gregory Dow

Innovation and growth: Schumpeterian perspectives: Frederic M. Scherer, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) pp. vii + 297, $35.00 pp. 220-222

Paul Stoneman

Disequilibrium foundations of equilibrium economics: Franklin M. Fisher, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983), pp. xii + 236, $34.50 pp. 222-223

Robert W. Clower

Volume 7, issue 1, 1986

Towards a theory of multinational enterprise pp. 3-19

Craig Galbraith and Neil Kay

Transactions cost economics and the multinational enterprise An Assessment pp. 21-45

David Teece

End behavior in sequences of finite Prisoner's Dilemma supergames A learning theory approach pp. 47-70

Reinhard Selten and Rolf Stoecker

Self-preservation as a foundation of rational behavior under risk pp. 71-81

Edi Karni and David Schmeidler

Threshold models of interpersonal effects in consumer demand pp. 83-99

Mark Granovetter and Roland Soong

A general theory of exploitation and class: John E. Roemer, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982) pp. xiii + 298, $27.50 pp. 101-106

Deepak Lal

Industrial renaissance: W.J. Abernathy, K.B. Clark and A.M. Kantrow, (Basic Books, New York, 1983) pp. 106-108

Sandra L. Schwartz

Individual forecasting and aggregate outcomes, `rational expectations' examined: Roman Frydman and Edmund S. Phelps, eds., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983) pp. ix + 238, $37.50 pp. 109-110

Martin J. Shubik

Economic games people play: Shlomo and Sharone Maital, (Basic Books, New York, 1984) pp. xxii + 339, $16.95 pp. 110-113

Irwin Lipnowski

Economic behavior within organizations: Stephen A. Hoenack, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983) pp. xiv + 290, $34.50 pp. 113-114

James D. Hess

Volume 6, issue 4, 1985

I. Was the South Sea Bubble a random walk? pp. 323-329

Stanley Schachter, William Gerin, Donald C. Hood and Paul Anderassen

II. Random and non-random walks on the New York stock exchange pp. 331-338

Donald C. Hood, Paul Andreassen and Stanley Schachter

III. Some causes and consequences of dependence and independence in the stock market pp. 339-357

Stanley Schachter, Donald C. Hood, William Gerin, Paul Andreassen and Michael Rennert

The principal-agent problem with a satisficing agent pp. 359-379

Hans Haller

Brand loyalty and user skills pp. 381-385

Birger Wernerfelt

Reason in human affairs: Herbert A. Simon, (Standford University Press, Standford, CA, 1983) viii + 107 pp., $10.00 pp. 387-390

Andrew Schotter

The economics of organization: James D. Hess, (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1983) viii + 288 pp., $35.00 pp. 390-393

Martin Beckmann

The logic of bureaucratic conduct: An economic analysis of competition, exchange, and efficiency in private and public organizations: Alfred Breton and Ronald Wintrobe, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982) xi + 195 pp., $29.95 pp. 393-395

Omar A. Ei Sawy

History -- the human gamble: Reuven Brenner, (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1983) xiv + 247 pp., $17.50 pp. 395-398

Mark Perlman

Volume 6, issue 3, 1985

Employee ownership and internal governance pp. 217-241

Raymond Russell

Employee ownership and internal governance: A perspective pp. 243-245

Oliver Williamson

Reply to Williamson pp. 247-247

Raymond Russell

Social value of public information re-examined pp. 249-274

Hassouna Moussa and Takeshi Murota

Market structure and buyer behaviour: Price adjustment in a multi-object progressive oral auction pp. 275-300

Penny Burns

Internal bargaining and strategic innovation in the theory of the firm pp. 301-320

Gregory Dow

Volume 6, issue 2, 1985

Innovation and the imitative entrepreneur pp. 103-121

Charles A. Ziegler

The convergence of economic systems and the M-form pp. 123-137

Trevor Buck

Information and conspiracy in sealed bid auctions pp. 139-159

R. Isaac and James Walker

Concepts of extended preference pp. 161-176

Harold M. Hochman and Shmuel Nitzan

Electoral and welfare consequences of political manipulation of the economy pp. 177-202

William R. Keech and Carl P. Simon

Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach: L.L. Cavalli-Sforza and M.W. Feldman, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1981) pp. xiv + 386, $28.000 (hard-cover), $12.50 (paperback) pp. 203-206

Paul Ballonoff

The economic imagination: Towards a behavioural analysis of choice: Peter E. Earl, (Sharpe, New York, 1983) pp. 224, $30.00 pp. 206-209

Hersh Shefrin

Utilitarianism and beyond: Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams, eds., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982) pp. vii + 290, $39.50 (hard-cover), $13.95 (paperback) pp. 210-212

Leigh Tesfatsion

Internal labor markets: Paul Osterman, ed., (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) pp. xii + 296, $30.00 pp. 212-216

Louis Putterman

Volume 6, issue 1, 1985

A behavioral model of the adoption of protective activities pp. 1-15

Howard Kunreuther, Warren Sanderson and Rudolf Vetschera

A behavioral model of the economic long wave pp. 17-53

John D. Sterman

Risk sharing and inventories pp. 55-68

Daniel Spulber

Learning behavior and mixed-strategy Nash equilibria pp. 69-78

Vincent Crawford

Notes on partnerships in the services sector pp. 79-87

Jacob Paroush

Choice and consequence. Perspectives of an Errant Economist: Thomas C. Schelling, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) 363 pp., $20.00 pp. 89-92

Jon Elster

An Evolutionary Theory of economic change: Richard R. Nelson and Sydney G. Winter, (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982) xi+ 437 pp., $25.00 pp. 92-94

Karl O. Faxen

The timing of economic activities: Gordon C. Winston, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982) xvi+343 pp., $29.95 pp. 94-97

Roger L. Faith

Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics: Nathan Rosenberg, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982) xi+304 pp., $29.95 hardback, $12.95 paperback pp. 98-100

Edwin Layton