(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.