A COMMON COMPLAINT BY AUTHORS IS THAT THEIR REVIEWERS have misinterpreted what the author has said. This is not my complaint here, because Bryan Caplan has explained my position better than I have. And I certainly cannot complain when Caplan sees my views as being more opposed to Lenin’s...

Dieser Artikel zeigt, dass die Aufgabe therapeutischer Familienberatung darin besteht, ein funktio-nierendes System der Eigentumsrechte zu schaffen und freiwillige Transaktionen innerhalb eines wettbewerbsfähigen Marktes nachzuahmen. Psychologen begreifen die Familienmitglieder als ge-meinsamen...

This paper examines the implementability of social choice functions when only partial verification of private information is possible. Green and Laffont (1986) used this framework to derive a necessary and sufficient condition for the revelation principle to continue to hold with partial...

In final-offer arbitration the two parties to a dispute submit final offers to an arbitrator. The arbitrator then chooses as the binding solution that offer which is closest to his own view of the appropriate outcome. Because the disputants are imperfectly informed about the arbitrator's...

This paper analyzes contests where contestants have private information about their abilities, and these abilities may be correlated. It differs from previous work chiefly in that it allows for such imperfect correlation, and that it restricts attention to a discrete output space. The latter...

Candidates may vary in quality, where quality is some characteristic orthogonal to policy. This "simple modification" has for the most part defied integration into the Downsian framework. Here we add the following complicating factors. We consider the possibility that there are uninformed voters...