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Some recent or notable research or reviews (with links to PDF files):

“Review of:  Ebenstein, Lanny.  Milton Friedman:  A Biography.”  Journal of the History of Economic Thought  (forthcoming 2010).

"Using Video Clips to Teach Creative Destruction."   The Journal of Private Enterprise 25, no. 1 (forthcoming 2009). 

"Schumpeter vs. Keynes:  "In the Long Run Not All of Us Are Dead"."   Journal of the History of Economic Thought 31, no. 4  (forthcoming December  2009).

"Review of Richard N. Langlois, The Dynamics of Industrial Capitialism:  Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy."  EH.Net Economic History Services, Aug. 6, 2009, URL: http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/1442

"Schumpeter's Best Move:  Review of:  McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of Innovation:  Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction."   Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology  27-A  Bingley, UK:  JAI Press, 2009, pp. 207-223. 

"Fixing Ideas:  How Research is Constrained by Mandated Formalism."  Journal of Economic Methodology  16, no. 2 (June 2009):  191-206.  Much revised, and more narrowly focused, version of paper presented at AEA.

"The Career Consequences for a Scientist of a Mistaken Research Project:  The Case of Polywater."   The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 68, no. 2  (April 2009):  387-411.

"How Institutional Incentives and Constraints Affect the Progress of Science."   Prometheus 26, no. 3 (Sept. 2008):  231-239. 

"Economics of Science."  In Steven  N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., forthcoming, 2008, Basingstoke and New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This article is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been reviewed or edited. The definitive published version of this extract may be found in the complete New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics in print and online, 2008, Volume 7, pp. 328-334.

“Review of:  Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan.”  Journal of Scientific Exploration  22, no. 3 (Fall 2008):  419-422.

“The Determinants of Election to the Presidency of the American Economic Association:  Evidence from a Cohort of Distinguished 1950's Economists.”  Scientometrics 73, no. 2 (Nov. 2007):  131-137.  (with Robert J. Toth).

"Thriving at Amazon:  How Schumpeter Lives in Books Today."   Econ Journal Watch 4, no. 3 (Sept. 2007):  338-444.

"The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores."   Working draft, April 30, 2008 (with Luis Locay and Tracy L. Regan).

  "Creative Destruction:  The Essential Fact about Capitalism."  Prepared for presentation at the Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economic Thought, George Mason University, June 2007.

"Schumpeterian Labor Economics:  The Labor Pains (and Labor Gains) from Creative Destruction." Revision of paper presented at the meetings of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 2007.

“Review of:  Hammond, J. Daniel and Claire H. Hammond, eds.,  Making Chicago Price Theory:  Friedman-Stigler Correspondence 1945-1957.”  Journal of the History of Economic Thought  30, no. 2 (June 2008):  258-262.

"The Neglect of Creative Destruction in Micro-principles Texts."   History of Economic Ideas 15, no. 1 (2007):  197-210.

"Fixing Ideas:  What Counts as Good Evidence that Creative Destruction is the Essential Fact about Capitalism?"  Presented at AEA meetings on January 6, 2007.

"Schumpeter's Creative Destruction:  A Review of the Evidence."  Journal of Private Enterprise 22, no. 1 (Fall 2006):  120-146.

"The Relative Success of Private Funders and Government Funders in Funding Important Science."  The European Journal of Law and Economics 21, no. 2 (April 2006): 149-161.

"Measurement, Incentives, and Constraints in Stigler's Economics of Science."  The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12, no. 4 (December 2005):  635-661.

"Schumpeter's Central Message." Paper Presented at Milan International Schumpeter Society Conference, June 12, 2004.

"Zvi Griliches's Contributions to the Economics of Technology and Growth."  Economics of Innovation and New Technology 13, no. 4 (June 2004):  365-397.

"Edwin Mansfield's Contributions to the Economics of Technology."  Research Policy  32, no. 9 (Oct. 2003):  1607-1617.

"Scientists' Salaries and the Implicit Contracts Theory of the Labor Market."  International Journal of Technology Management 22, nos. 7/8 (2001):  688-697. 

"The Complementarity of Scientometrics and Economics."  (2000).

"Does Federal Funding "Crowd In" Private Funding of Science?"   (1999).

"The Economics of Science."  Knowledge and Policy 9, nos. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 6-49.

"Review of: Alexander Rosenberg's Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?."    (1996).

"The Core Journals of Economics."  (1989).

"The Empirical Progressiveness of the General Equilibrium Research Program."  (1988).

"Science as a Rational Enterprise."  (1988).

"The Polywater Episode and the Appraisal of Theories."  (1988).

"The Life-Cycle Research Productivity of Mathematicians and Scientists."  (1986).

"What is a Citation Worth?"  (1986).

"Avery's 'Neurotic Reluctance'."  (1982).

"Planck's Principle."  (1978) (with David L. Hull and Peter D. Tessner).

More Publications and Drafts

Art Diamond with one of Galileo's original telescopes in Florence.

 

Longer List of Publications and Drafts (for most, includes links to PDF files)

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Heritage Foundation Guide to Public Policy Experts

 

Kauffman Foundation resources on entrepreneurship education and research

 

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Famous Ben Wattenberg Corporate Graveyard Scene from "In Search of the Real America"

 

An Open Letter to Lemony Snicket (and Robert Bork) in Modest Defense of Edgar Guest

 

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Above graph from p. 380 of :  "Zvi Griliches's Contributions to the Economics of Technology and Growth."  Economics of Innovation and New Technology 13, no. 4 (June 2004):  365-397.

BSAD 8480 Applications in Economics: Technology [last taught Fall 2007]

ECON 2200 Principles of Economics---Micro [last taught Spring 2009]

ECON 3200 Economic Theory---Micro [last taught Spring 1999]

ECON 4260/8266 History of  Economic Thought [last taught Spring 1999]

ECON 4290/8296; BSAD 8026 Research Methods in Economics and Business [last taught Fall 2000]

ECON 4340/8346 Economics of Technology [last taught Spring 2009]

ECON 4700/8706; BSAD 8706 Economics of eBusiness [last taught Spring 2006]

ECON 4910/8916; BSAD 8916 Special Topics:  Economics of Entrepreneurship [last taught Fall 2009]

ECON 4910/8916 Special Topics:  Economics of Science [last taught Spring 1994]

ECON 8160 Seminar in Labor Economics [last taught Spring 1995]

HON 3000 Honors Colloquium on Creative Destruction [last taught Fall 2008]

 

More Details on Courses Taught

In the course list above, the Executive MBA BSAD 8480 was an evolved version of the more standard managerial economics course; and the ECON 3200 course is more commonly called "Intermediate Micro."  Besides the courses listed above, in the more distant past, I have also taught:  honors micro principles; undergraduate labor economics; a standard version of the managerial economics course; and a philosophy of economics course.

 

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