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(Highgate Cemetery, London, Summer 2009)


Selected Working Papers

“Labor Discipline, Reputation and Underemployment Traps,” Middlebury College Working Paper 05-02

"Technological Unemployment: A New View,” Middlebury College Working Paper 02-12

"The Dialectics of Differentiation: Marx's Mathematical Manuscripts and their Relation to his Economics," Middlebury College Working Paper 02-03



Published and Forthcoming Papers

“Jumping, Sniping and Squatting at the Silents,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, forthcoming at the Journal of Public Economics.

“Endogenous Participation in Charity Auctions,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, forthcoming at the Journal of Public Economics.

Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?” with Jeff Carpenter, forthcoming in the Journal of the European Economic Association. [Mentioned in “Citizen Enforcers Take Aim,” The New York Times, October 6, 2008.]

Charity Auctions in the Experimental Lab,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, forthcoming in Mark Isaac and Douglas Norton, editors, Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 13.

“Tournaments and Office Politics: Evidence from a Real Effort Experiment,” with Jeff Carpenter and John Schirm, forthcoming, American Economic Review.

“What Norms Trigger Punishment?” with Jeff Carpenter, Experimental Economics, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2009): 272-288.

“Norm Enforcement: The Role of Third Parties,” with Jeff Carpenter, forthcoming, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.

“Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation,” with Jeff Carpenter and Jessica Holmes, The Economic Journal, Vol. 118 (January 2008): 92-113. [Mentioned in “A Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Financial Times, 18 May 2007.]

“Labor Discipline,” invited contribution to second edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, editors. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Also, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online, 13 June 2008, DOI:10.1057/9780230226203.0912

“Who Is Post-Walrasian Man?” in David Colander, editor, Post-Walrasian Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006: 80-96.

“Incentives and Superstars on the LPGA Tour,” with Paul Sommers and Francisco J. Peschiera ’01, Applied Economics, Vol. 39, Nos 1-3 (January-February 2007): 87-94.

“No Switchbacks: Rethinking Aspiration-Based Dynamics in the Ultimatum Game,” with Jeff Carpenter, Theory and Decision, Vol. 58, No. 4 (July 2005): 351-385.

“Paradise Lost and Found? The Econometric Contribubtions of Clive Granger and Robert Engle,” Review of Political Economy, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2005): 1-28. Reprinted in Steven Pressman, editor, Leading Contemporary Economists: Economics at the Cutting Edge. New York: Routledge, 2008: 251-279.

“Functional Finance and Sound Finance,” with David Colander, in Per Gunnar Berglund and Matias Verengo, editors, The Means to Prosperity: Fiscal Policy Reconsidered. London: Routledge, 2005.

“Why Punish? Social Reciprocity and the Enforcement of Prosocial Norms,” with Jeff Carpenter and Okomboli Ong’ong’a ’01, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4 (October 2004): 407-429.

“Beliefs, Intentions and Emotions: Old versus New Psychological Game Theory,” with Jeff Carpenter, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 2003): 158-160.

“The Cost of Job Loss and the ‘New’ Phillips Curve,” with Ivan Kandilov ’00, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 2002: 181-202. (Honorable Mention, 2002 Otto Eckstein Prize)

“Interstate Differences in Insured Unemployment: Some Recent Evidence” with Brad Maxwell ’99 and Ivan Kandilov ’00, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 9, No. 14, November 2002: 945-948.

“Unemployment Insurance,” in Cynthia Northup, editor, The American Economy: An Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, 2003.

“Workers’ Compensation,” in Cynthia Northup, editor, The American Economy: An Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, 2003.

“OSH Act,” in Cynthia Northup, editor, The American Economy: An Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, 2003.

“Consumption,” in Cynthia Northup, editor, The American Economy: An Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, 2003.

“Earnings,” in Cynthia Northup, editor, The American Economy: An Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, 2003.

"An Austrian (Mis)Reads Adam Smith: A Critique of Rothbard as Intellectual Historian," with Andreas Ortmann, The Review of Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer 2002: 379-392.

“Positive Feedback and Path Dependence using the Law of Large Numbers,” The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 2001: 124-136.

“Net Interstate Migration Revisited,” with Paul M. Sommers and Daniel A. Meyer, Midd ’99, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 8, No. 2, February 2001: 131-134.

“Technical Change and the Evolution of Class Conscious Norms,” The Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2000: 470-481.

"An Econometric Model of the Circuit of Capital," Metroeconomica, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2000: 1-37.

"Did Marx Know The Way To Santa Fe? Reflections on Evolution, Functionalism and Collective Consciousness," in David Colander, editor, Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. London: Routledge, 2000: 58-73.

"Toward the Complexification of Statistics and Econometrics Courses," in David Colander, editor, Complexity and the Teaching of Econometrics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000: 231-254.

“Capital,” The World Book Encyclopedia

"Degree of Monopoly," in Phillip O'Hara, editor, The Encyclopedia of Political Economy. London: Routledge, 1999: 878-880.

"Abba Lerner," in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, editors, The American National Biography. Vol. 13. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 500-502.

"Tjalling Koopmans," in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, editors, The American National Biography. Vol. 12. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 879-880.

"A Neo-Hobbesian Model of the Promotion/Discipline Nexus" The Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 30, No. 2, Fall 1998: 86-93.

"The Lucas Critique," in Thomas R. Cate, editor, The Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1996: 384-386.

"A Brief Note on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Random Production Failures," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 36, No. 3, Fall 1996: 411-415.

"The Modern Foundations of Marx's Monetary Economics," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 1996: 61-85.