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Some recent or
notable research or reviews (with links to PDF
files):
"Using
Video Clips to Teach Creative
Destruction." Prepared for
presentation at the annual meetings of the
Association of Private Enterprise Education,
April 2008.
"Fixing
Ideas: How Research is Constrained by Mandated
Formalism." Journal of Economic
Methodology (forthcoming 2008). Much revised, and more
narrowly focused, version of paper presented at AEA.
"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.
“Review of:
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.
The Black Swan.”
Journal of Scientific Exploration
(forthcoming Fall 2008).
“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, August 10, 2007 (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
vs. Keynes: "In the Long Run Not All of Us
Are Dead"."
Working draft, January 23, 2008.
"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
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