The American Economist

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Volume 22, issue 2, 1978

Resources and Economic Growth pp. 5-11

Robert Solow

Mutual Savings and Loan Conversions pp. 12-22

Kim J. Kowalewski

The Effect of Off-Track Betting in New York State on Revenues to the State and Local Governments, 1971–1974 pp. 23-29

Douglas Coate and Gary Ross

The Demand for Higher Education at Private Institutions of Moderate Selectivity pp. 30-34

Odin K. Knudsen and Paul J. Servelle

Principal Components Estimators and Restricted Least Squares—An Alternative Perspective pp. 35-39

Carter Hill and S. R. Johnson

An Analysis of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its Socio-Economic Environment, 1965–1973 pp. 40-49

John D. Robertson

Determinants of the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations pp. 50-55

Mario M. Carrillo-Huerta

Pricing Behavior of Attorneys in Northern Virginia after Goldfarb pp. 56-60

William Wood

Patterns of American Interregional Commodity Trade: North to South, 1824–1839 pp. 61-66

Lawrence A. Herbst

Lags and the Assignment Problem: A Note pp. 67-70

Harvey Lapan and Walter Enders

An Application of the Lexis Ratio to the Detection of Racial Quotas in Professional Sports: A Note pp. 71-75

Daniel R. Vining and James F. Kerrigan

Portfolio Analysis with Indirect Utility: A Comment pp. 76-76

C. Timothy Koeller

A Survey of Microeconomics Reading Materials in Universities in Canada and the United States: Bibliography pp. 77-80

Tadiboyina Venkateswarlu

Book Review: Property and Industrial Organization in Communist and Capitalist Nations pp. 81-81

Luther C. Thompson

Book Review: Economics in Our Time: Concepts and Issues pp. 81-82

W. E. Spellman

Book Review: Welfare Economics: A Liberal Restatement pp. 82-83

Dana N. Stevens

Book Review: Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies pp. 83-83

Don R. Leet

Book Review: Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depresion? pp. 84-84

Flory Pinigis

Book Review: The Politics of Global Economic Relations pp. 84-86

Forrest Blodgett

Book Review: The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination pp. 86-87

Virginia A. Trueman

Book Review: The Economic Approach to Human Behavior pp. 87-88

James M. Roc

Book Review: Beyond Economic Man: A New Foundation for Microeconomics pp. 88-89

William C. Adams

Book Review: Case Studies in Decision Analysis pp. 89-89

Edward Deak

Volume 22, issue 1, 1978

Position Paper: Higher Education pp. 5-6

Herman A. Berliner

Differential Pricing, Firm Capitalization, and the Regulatory Process in the Electric Power Industry pp. 7-11

John H. Crockett

Economic Variables and the Decision to Have Additional Children: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Opportunity pp. 12-16

Donald Snyder

Welfare Implications of Rationing and Tax-Rebate Programs pp. 17-19

Lawrence Shepard

A Comparative Static Model for the Pareto Optimal Allocation of Expenditures on Research and Development pp. 20-21

John F. O'Connell

A Theory of the Banking Firm pp. 22-25

James A. Fellows

Default Risk and the Theory of the Firm pp. 26-32

Russell P. Boisjoly

Policy Prescriptions, Presuppositions, and Unemployment pp. 33-36

Jack R. Wegman

The Effect of the Growth of Multimarket Firms on Economic Performance: The Milk Industry pp. 37-45

Glenn N. Pettengill

An Empirical Estimation of Labor Supply in Response to Primary and Secondary Wages pp. 46-50

James Clarke and Charles Zech

Political Goods and Trade Theory pp. 51-59

John Tressler

The Control of Inflation in a Small, Underdeveloped Open Economy — The Barbadian Experience pp. 60-65

Judy A. Gittens

A Note on Production outside the “Economic†Stages: Some Common Errors and Omissions pp. 66-71

Shmuel Sharir

A Theoretical Foundation for the Empirical Analysis of Household Monetary Donations: A Note pp. 72-76

Frank D. Tinari

A Note on Two Curiosities in Linear Regression pp. 77-78

Dale J. Poirier

The Effect of Deregulating Crude Oil Prices on the Pump Price of Gasoline: A Note pp. 79-82

Chris W. Paul

The Division of Labor is Limited by the Extent of Worker Alienation: A Comment pp. 83-83

Keith Newton

Book Review: Progress against Poverty: A Review of the 1964–1974 Decade pp. 84-84

David Jones

Book Review: Labor Economics: Wages, Employment, and Trade Unionism, Readings in Labor Economics and Labor Relations, the Practice of Collective Bargaining pp. 85-86

Keith E. Bernard

Book Review: Money, Banking, and the United States Economy, the Monetary Process: Essentials of Money and Banking, Money, Banking, and Economic Analysis., Principles of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets., Money and the Financial System: Fundamentals pp. 86-88

Bernard J Rose

Book Review: Economics of Racism, U.S.A.: Roots of Black Inequality pp. 88-88

Michael A. Winfield Senior

Recently Published Books pp. 89-89

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Chapter Roll pp. 90-95

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Volume 21, issue 2, 1977

Some Major Changes in the Principles of Economics as Exemplified by the Principles of Economics of Paul Samuelson, 1948–1973 pp. 3-11

W. Robert Brazelton

The Empirical Evidence from the Fertility Demand Functions: A Review of the Literature pp. 12-22

Marcel Fulop

Marshall, Walras and the Cobweb Theorem pp. 23-29

Thomas E. Holland

Some Reflections on the Economics of Nutrition: Deprived Urban Black and Mexican American Youth pp. 30-34

John P. Walter

Adam Smith's Laissez Faire pp. 35-39

Tahany Naggar

Marxian Alienation and Economic Organization: An Alternate View pp. 40-48

David M. Lefever and J. Timothy Lefever

Socio-Economic “Interest Groups†and the Formation of Soviet Foreign Policy pp. 49-58

Daniel McGovern

Some Simple Analytics of the Phillips Curve: A Geometric Derivation pp. 59-61

Keith Newton

Information and Optimal Economic Stabilization Policy: A Qualitative Discussion pp. 62-66

Mo-Yin S. Tam

Inconsistencies and Omissions in the Treatment of Fixed Costs: A Note pp. 67-70

William D. Gunther

The Power of Positive Publishing: A Note pp. 70-70

Thomas Johnson

A Note on Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball: A Reevaluation of the Evidence pp. 71-75

Robert G. Mogull

A Derivation of the Production Possibility Curve: A Note pp. 76-77

David Harrison

A Note on Substitutability When the Demand Function is Homogeneous of Degree Zero pp. 77-77

F. E. Banks

A New Approach to the Theory of Consumer Behavior: A Note pp. 78-79

Douglas M. Brown

A Note on Current Terminology in Discussions of Externalities pp. 80-80

Ann N. P. Fisher

A Contribution to the Analysis of the Relationship between the Full Employment Budget Surplus and GNP: A Note pp. 81-82

J. Kirker Stephens and Terry Grapentine

Book Review: How Corporate and Municipal Debt is Rated: An inside Look at Standard and Poor's Rating System pp. 83-83

Kung-Mo Kuo

Book Review: Introductory Economic Statistics pp. 83-84

Lawrence Cole

Book Review: Economic Scenes: Theory in Today's World, Economics of Social Issues pp. 84-84

Michael Ellis

Book Review: The Economics of the Public Sector pp. 85-86

Irene Kyriakopoulos

Book Review: The Theory of Macroeconomic Policy pp. 85-85

Irene Kyriakopoulos

Book Review: Women and the American Economy: A Look to the 1980's pp. 86-87

Donald E. Lewis

Book Review: Managing the Modern Economy: An Introduction to Macroeconomics pp. 86-86

Irene Kyriakopoulos

Book Review: Public Policy-Making pp. 87-88

John O. Ward

Book Review: The Urban Experience pp. 88-88

C. J. Daly

Recently Published Books pp. 89-90

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Volume 21, issue 1, 1977

A Survey of the Literature on the Economic Theory of Fertility Behavior pp. 5-13

Marcel Fulop

A Survey of Recent Research in Health Economics pp. 14-20

Michael Grossman

The Benefits of International Portfolio Diversification: Industry and National Diversification pp. 21-29

Sheldon Novack

The Demand for Bus Transportation in Houston—An Analysis of Price and Service Sensitivity pp. 30-33

Robert Loy Pitts

A Simplified and Generalized Graphical Proof of the Downward Slope of a Factor Demand Curve pp. 34-38

Charles E. Scott

The Sociological and Institutional Background of Perroux's Economic Domination Theory pp. 39-43

Ducarmel Bocage

Observations on Recreation-Led Growth in Appalachia pp. 44-50

Robin R. Gottfried

Some Empirical Evidence on the Demand for Money in Nigeria pp. 51-54

Simeon Ibi Ajayi

The Shortest Way to Success: A Review of Defoe's The Complete English Tradesman pp. 55-59

Dana N. Stevens

Racial Discrimination in Professional Basketball: A Reply pp. 60-62

Robert G. Mogull

A Note on the Treatment of Aggregate Supply in Some Textbooks pp. 63-63

Thomas P. Reinwald

An Inventory Model Allowing for Back Orders: A Note pp. 64-66

John R. McKean and Ronald R. Miller

A ‘Keynesian’ Construct in Hicksian Is-LM Analysis: A Comment pp. 67-69

Charles T. Koeller

A Note on the Discriminatory Effects of Monetary Policy and the Use of Trade Credit pp. 70-71

Frank Fabozzi and Stephen Feldman

A Note on Equal Proportional Sacrifice pp. 72-72

Richard Cebula

What Price Graduate School? A Note pp. 73-75

Daniel Feenberg

A Bibliographic Survey of Health Economics Reading Materials in American and Canadian Universities pp. 76-85

Tadiboyina Venkateswarlu

Book Review: Comparative Economic Systems: A Decision-Making Approach pp. 86-86

Cho Kin Leung

Book Review: The Eco-Spasm Report pp. 86-88

Allen Early

Book Review: Applied Managerial Economics, Business Economics, Managerial Economics pp. 88-89

Jerome T. Bentley

Book Review: Economics of Markets: An Introduction to Economic Analysis pp. 89-89

Dalton E. Brannen

Book Review: The Principles of Monetary Economics pp. 89-90

Janice Spence

Book Review: Macroeconomics pp. 90-91

W. E. Spellman

Book Review: Microeconomics Applied to Press Reports pp. 90-90

Susan A. Simmons

Chapter Roll pp. 92-96

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