The American Economist

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Volume 23, issue 2, 1979

The Effects of Risk and Disequilibrium on the Investment Behavior of U.S. Electric Utility Industry pp. 3-5

Uri Ben-Zion and Yash P. Mehra

A Cross-Section Study on the Demand for State Lottery Tickets pp. 6-12

Roland Y. Wu

Oligopoly: A Unified View pp. 13-18

Dilip K. Ghosh

Taxes, Quotas and Environmental Policies: A Comment on Economic Efficiency pp. 19-23

Jerrold M. Peterson and Richard W. Lichty

Representation of Choice in Long-Term Planning pp. 24-30

Peter Murrell

Forecasting Rules as Equilibrium Strategies in Duopoly Models pp. 31-36

Charles Holt

Arson: An Economic Phenomenon? pp. 37-43

Thomas C. Spillman and Thomas A. Zak

Profit Maximizing Behavior in Concentrated Industries pp. 44-49

Richard A. Wald

A Study of the Labor Force Participation Rate of Single Women pp. 50-55

Francis Ahking

Two Suggestions for the Improvement of Methodological Work in Economics pp. 56-61

Bruce Caldwell

A Note on the Stochastic Structure of the Velocity of Money: Some Reservations pp. 62-64

Houston Stokes and Hugh Neuburger

Education, Alienation, and the Production Function: A Comment pp. 65-66

Lawrence Thurston

A Comment on the Aggregate Supply Function pp. 67-67

Kehar S. Sangha

Empirical Evidence on Returns to Scale, Expectations and Demand for Labor: A Case Study of Indian Manufacturing pp. 68-70

Kanhaya L. Gupta

The Demand for Bus Transportation in Houston-An Analysis of Price and Service Sensitivity: A Comment pp. 71-72

Snowden Bunch

A Note on Positively Sloped is Curves pp. 73-76

Jack E. Gelfand and Thad W. Mirer

Book Review: Aggregate Investment: Selected Readings pp. 77-78

David J. Smyth

Book Review: A Century of Agricultural Growth in Japan: Its Relevance to Asian Development pp. 77-77

John O. Ward

Book Review: How Japan's Economy Grew So Fast: The Sources of Postwar Expansion pp. 78-79

Gustav Donald Jud

Book Review: Friedman on Galbraith and on Curing the British Disease pp. 79-80

R. Stanley Herren

Book Review: Rice and Risk: Decision Making among Low Income Farmers pp. 80-81

Ashok Bhargava

Book Review: International Economics., Introduction to International Economics pp. 81-82

Byron B. Brown

Book Review: Classical Economics Reconsidered., History of Economic Analysis: A Guide to Information Sources pp. 82-83

Louis A. Dow

Book Review: Urban Economics pp. 83-84

Donald Vitaliano

Book Review: Transportation Economics: A Guide to Information Sources pp. 84-85

Gerald Brock

Book Review: Guerrilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region, 1937–1945 pp. 85-86

W. E. Spellman

Book Review: Electricity Economics: Essays and Case Studies pp. 85-85

Gerald Brock

Book Review: Business, Government and the Public pp. 86-87

Dwight Phaup

Book Review: Government Policy and the Distribution of Income in Peru, 1963–1973 pp. 87-88

J. S. Uppal

Book Review: Method and Appraisal in Economics pp. 88-89

D. Wade Hands

Book Review: An Introduction to Mathematical Economics: Methods and Applications pp. 89-89

D. Wade Hands

Volume 23, issue 1, 1979

Position Paper: Higher Education pp. 5-6

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Prepensely Prejudicing Preferences. Prologue to a Probe of Propaganda and Proselytizing pp. 7-15

Bengt-Arne Wickström

The Effect of Crime on Residential Rents and Property Values pp. 16-21

Mario J. Rizzo

The Distribution of Unpriced Public Goods: A Framework with Some Empirical Results for Police Services pp. 22-27

David Kennett

An Analysis of Market Adjustments under a Price Floor pp. 28-34

David Sjoquist

Contemporary Macroeconomics Texts: A Review pp. 35-40

Charles F. Peake

The Differential Impact in Competition and Monopoly of a Change in Costs on Price and Quantity pp. 41-43

David R. Kamerschen and Paul Rubin

A Joint Product Approach to Capital Market Equilibrium pp. 44-48

Uri Ben-Zion

A New Measurement of Income Inequality as An Economic and Social Index pp. 49-52

Byung Sung Lee

A Note on Education, Alienation, and the Production Function pp. 53-54

E. G. West and Rik Hafer

A Note concerning a Basic Inconsistency between the Theory of Production and the Theory of Costs pp. 55-58

Samuel D. Ramenofsky and A. Ross Shepherd

A Note on Optimal Income Taxation pp. 59-64

David Colander

The Effect of Petroleum-Related News Shocks on Stock Prices pp. 65-73

Thomas Berner

Classification of Technical Change: Diagrammatic Illustration pp. 74-78

David Bigman

The Derivation of the Price Elasticity of Demand from the Response of Total Revenue to Price Changes: A Comment pp. 79-79

Donald L. Bumpass

Book Review: The Soviet-Type Economies: Performance and Evolution pp. 80-80

Cho Kin Leung

Book Review: The Economy: Old Myths and New Realities pp. 81-82

James O. Smith

Book Review: Awakening from the American Dream: The Social and Political Limits to Growth pp. 81-81

Dana J. Swan

Book Review: The Concept and Measurement of Involuntary Unemployment pp. 82-83

Cho Kin Leung

Book Review: The Making of Economic Society pp. 83-84

Hugh Daniel

Book Review: Consumer Product Development pp. 84-85

Mark M. Caruth

Book Review: The Arena of International Finance pp. 85-86

Ahmad Faruqui

Book Review: The Economics of Marx: Selected Readings of Exposition and Criticism pp. 86-87

Ann Hansen

Book Review: The Passions and the Interests, Political Arguments for Capitalism before its Triumph pp. 87-88

Dana N. Stevens

Book Review: Economists at Bay: Why the Experts Will Never Solve Your Problems pp. 88-89

J. Ron Stanfield

Book Review: The American Economy, 1929–1970: Resources, Production, Income Distribution and Use of Product, an Introduction pp. 89-89

Leonard Succar

Chapter Roll pp. 91-96

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