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Some recent or
notable research or reviews (with links to PDF
files):
"The Creative Destruction of Antitrust." Proposed
for Presentation at the Association of Private
Enterprise Education (APEE) annual meetings in Las
Vegas, NV in April 2012.
"The Creative Destruction of Labor Policy."
Proposed for Presentation at the Association of
Private Enterprise Education (APEE) annual meetings
in Las Vegas, NV in April 2012.
"The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on
Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores."
Economic Inquiry (forthcoming 2012) (with
Luis Locay and Tracy L. Regan).
"The Epistemology of Entrepreneurship."
Advances in Austrian Economics (forthcoming 2012).
[Revision of paper presented at the
Wirth Institute Biennial Workshop Conference on the
Austrian School of Economics in Vancouver, Canada on
October 15, 2010.]
“McCloskey's
Great Fact; Review of: McCloskey,
Deirdre.
Bourgeois
Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the
Modern World.”
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public
Policy (forthcoming 2012).
“Review of:
Ebenstein, Lanny.
Milton Friedman:
A Biography.”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
33, no 2 (June 2011): 280-283.
"Keeping
Our Cool: In Defense of Air Conditioning."
Revised Version of Paper Presented at the
Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE)
annual meetings in Nassau, Bahamas on April 12,
2011.
"Review of
Ross Emmett, ed., The Elgar Companion to the
Chicago School of Economics." EH.Net Economic History Services,
May
6, 2011, URL:
http://eh.net/book_reviews/elgar-companion-chicago-school-economics
"Schumpeterian
Labor Economics: The Labor Pains (and Labor
Gains) from
Creative Destruction." Somewhat cleaned-up
version of the paper
presented at the meetings of the International
Schumpeter Society in Denmark, June 24, 2010.
"Using
Video Clips to Teach Creative Destruction."
The Journal of Private
Enterprise 25, no. 1 (Fall 2009):
151-161.
"Schumpeter
vs. Keynes: "In the Long Run Not All of Us
Are Dead"."
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
31, no. 4
(Dec. 2009):
531-541. [copyright by Cambridge University
Press; PDF also downloadable from:
http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A67sV8RL
"Review of
Richard N. Langlois, The Dynamics of Industrial
Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy." EH.Net Economic History Services, Aug.
5, 2009, URL:
http://eh.net/book_reviews/dynamics-industrial-capitalism-schumpeter-chandler-and-new-economy
"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.
“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).
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Publications and Drafts
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