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272: Quantitative Social Scientific History

J. Morgan. Kousser

271: Nonbinary Social Choice: An Impossibility Theorem

David Grether and Charles Plott

270: An Analysis of Fully Distributed Cost Pricing in Regulated Industries

Ronald R. Braeutigam

269: Professional Diagnosis Versus Self Diagnosis: An Experimental Examination of Some Special Features of Markets with Uncertainty

Charles Plott and Louis L. Wilde

268: Money in Consumption-Loan Type Models: An Addendum

David Cass

267: Optimal Economic Growth and Turnpike Theorems

Lionel McKenzie

266: The Effect of Uncertainty in Regulatory Delay on the Rate of Innovation

Braeutigam. Ronald R.

265: The House Is Not a Home: M.P.'s and Their Constituencies

Bruce E. Cain, John A. Ferejohn and Morris P. Fiorina

264: A Theory of Optimal Agenda Design

Richard D. McKelvey

263: Agriculture in Development: A Coalitional Analysis

Robert Bates and William P. Rogerson

262: An Experimental Examination of Auction Mechanisms for Discrete Public Goods

John A. Ferejohn, Robert Forsythe, Roger Noll and Thomas Palfrey

261: Demand Uncertainty and the Regulated Firm

Ronald R. Braeutigam and James P. Quirk

260: Experiments on the Core: Some Disconcerting Results for Majority Rule Voting Games

Richard D. McKelvey and Peter C. Ordeshook

259: Uncertainty and the Theory of Tax Incidence in a Stock Market Economy

David P. Baron and Robert Forsythe

258: Diet as a Factor Affecting Organochlorine Contamination of Breast Milk

Talbot Page, Joel Balbien and Stephanie. Harris

257: The Severance Tax as an Instrument of Intertemporal Equity

Talbot. Page

256: Food Policy in Africa: Political Causes and Social Effects

Robert Bates

255: The Opportunity for Conspiracy in Restraint of Trade: An Experimental Study

R. Isaac and Charles Plott

254: Jaws I and the Politics of Budgetary Reduction. The City of Pasadena: A Case Study

Joel. Balbien

253: Price Controls and the Behavior of Auction Markets: An Experimental Examination

R. Isaac and Charles Plott

252: An Impossibility Theorem for Von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions

John A. Ferejohn and Richard D. McKelvey

251: Petroleum Price Controls When Information Is a Joint Product

R. Isaac

250: Ocean Mining Policy: A Dynamic Approach

Burton H. Klein

249: The Methodology of Benefit-Cost Analysis with Particular Reference to the CFC Program

Ezra Mishan and Talbot. Page

248: Keeping Score: An Actuarial Approach to Zero-Infinity Dilemmas

Talbot. Page

247: The Slowdown in Productivity Advances: A Dynamic Explanation

Burton H. Klein

246: Some Remarks on Monetary Policy in an Overlapping Generations Model

William Brock and Jose Scheinkman

245: Bayes Rule as a Descriptive Model: The Representativeness Heuristic

David Grether

244: Short and Long-Term Effects of Economic Conditions on Individual Voting Decisions

Morris P. Fiorina

243: A Support Price Theorem for the Continuous Time Model of Capital Accumulation

Shin-Ichi. Takekuma

242: The Role of Money in Supporting the Pareto Optimality of Competitive Equilibrium in Consumption-Loan Type Models

David Cass, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara and Itzhak Zilcha

241: The Effect of Intertemporal Speculation on the Outcomes in Seller Posted Offer Auction Markets

Elizabeth Hoffman and Charles Plott

240: Metropolitan Fragmentation and Decentralized Control of Revenue Resources

Gary J. Miller

239: Market Structure and Innovation: A Reformulation

Tom Lee and Louis L. Wilde

238: Efficient Intertemporal Allocation, Consumption-Value Maximization and Capital-Value Transversality: A Unified View

David Cass and Mukul. Majumdar

237: The Commercialization of Agriculture and the Rise of Rural Political Protest in Black Africa

Robert Bates

236: Pressure Groups, Public Policy and Agricultural Development: A Study of Divergent Outcomes

Robert Bates

235: Intervening in Markets on the Basis of Imperfect Information: A Legal and Economic Analysis

Alan Schwartz and Louis L. Wilde

234: Revenue Generating Properties of Sealed-Bid Auctions: An Experimental Analysis of One-Price and Discriminative Processes

Gary J. Miller and Charles Plott

233: Making Separate Equal: The Integration of Black and White School Funds in Kentucky, 1882

J. Morgan. Kousser

232: Capital Gains and the Economic Theory of Corporate Finance

H. Stuart Burness and James P. Quirk

231: Conditions for Voting Equilibria in Continuous Voter Distributions

Richard D. McKelvey, Peter C. Ordeshook and Peter. Ungar

230: Removal of Carcinogens from Drinking Water: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Talbot Page, Robert Harris and Judith. Bruser

229: Consumer Behavior Under Imperfect Information: A Review of Psychological and Marketing Research as It Relates to Economic Theory

Louis L. Wilde

228: Water Law, Water Transfers and Economic Efficiency: The Colorado River

H. Stuart Burness and James P. Quirk

227: The Theory of the Dam: An Application to the Colorado River

H. Stuart Burness and James P. Quirk

226: Universalism, Reciprocity and Distributive Policy-Making in Majority Rule Institutions

Morris P. Fiorina

225: Home-Owners, Renters, and Bureaucrats: A Redistributional Analysis of Municipal Incorporation

Gary J. Miller

224: The Paradox of Voting and Candidate Competition: A General Equilibrium Analysis

John Ledyard

223: The Application of Laboratory Experimental Methods to Public Choice

Charles Plott