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Duffy, John; Yoo, Seung Han - 2022

We provide a model of group sorting or polarization based on group identity alone. In our model, agents differ from one another in terms of a binary group identity. Groups may also differ in terms of the distribution of abilities, but the distribution of abilities by group is uncertain and both...

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Chester I. Barnard: Innovator of Organization Theory

Isomura, Kazuhito - 2023

career -- Chapter 3: Barnard’s experience -- Chapter 4: Barnard’s intellectual relationships -- Chapter 5: Barnard … life, career, experience, intellectual relationships, philosophy, method, and theory. Barnard (1886–1961) is considered an … experience, philosophy, and method. It then traces the process of how Barnard built his concepts of organization as it examines …

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Dewey on habit, character, order and reform

Pratten, Stephen - In: Cambridge journal of economics 39 (2015) 4, pp. 1031-1052

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VL Smith's Tautological Social Choice Theory

Choi, Hak - 2014

This paper discloses how Smith rewrites some assumption as result, and uses some result to construct question. Such tautological methods derive nothing. It is also incorrect to treat public goods as continuous variables

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Adam Smith on the Joint Stock Company

Fleckner, Andreas Martin - 2016

perfect. Smith's theory of the firm, or the lack thereof, is one of the masterpiece's blind spots. Smith thought history had …

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James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy : A Rational Reconstruction

Wagner, Richard E. - 2017

This paper presents the preface and first chapter of my book on James M. Buchanan, which should be out in late 2017, published by Lexington. This chapter introduces Buchanan to those who don't know him, or who know him only in terms of individual pieces of work they have encountered. I portray...

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Musgrave, Samuelson, and the Crystallization of the Standard Rationale for Public Goods

Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime - 2016

This paper provides a narrative of the emergence of the standard textbook definition of public goods. It focuses on Richard A. Musgrave's contribution in defining public goods as non-rival and non-excludable — from 1937 to 1973. Although Samuelson's mathematical definition is generally used in...

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Adam Smith - A Primer

Butler, Eamonn - 2007

the history of science. Butler therefore provides a comprehensive, but concise, overview of Adam Smith's intellectual …

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Antipathy for Heidelberg, sympathy for Freiburg? : Vincent Ostrom on Max Weber, Walter Eucken, and the compound history of order

Kolev, Stefan - 2019

Vincent Ostrom's legacy is revisited in this paper along three dimensions: Ostrom's contributions as a historian of politico-economic thought, as a complexity theorist, and as an epistemologist. All three dimensions are captured from a perspective which has seldom been studied systematically...

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Physics Breakthrough Disproves Fundamental Assumptions of the Chicago School

Kenney, Cortelyou C. - 2023

Classical law and economics is foundational to the American legal system. Centered at the University of Chicago, with a reach touching nearly every law faculty and economics department in the country, its assumptions, most especially that humans act both rationally and selfishly, informs the...

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