Journal Files, A.A.S.

Some sample journal files I have written.
 
Period 1: The Big Picture

• The Toll Collector

Period 5: Behavioral Concepts

• Skinner in Economic Terms
• Skinner and Demand Analysis
• Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
• Do Institutions Think?

Period 6: Cognition and Choice

• What We Buy vs. What We Say
• Hurricanes, Learning and Reasons
• Cheap Talk

Period 7: Behavioral Economics

• Bounded Rationality
• Links to Sen--Nobel Prize
• Agendas, Profit Maximization, Technological Change, & Pollution Reduction
• Individuals and Individual Choice as the Unit of Observation

Period 8: Incompatible Use & Exclusion Cost

• Elements of SSP
• Externality
• HEC Parties

Period 9: Behavior That Depends on the Behavior of Others

• Notes on Schelling
• Schelling's Theme Illustrated with East Lansing Housing Conflicts

 Period 10: Prisoner's Dilemma

• PD, Ulysses and Social Capital

Period 11: Increasing Returns and Evolution

• QWERTY: Was it really true?
• Scale, Wal-Mart, and Urban Decay

Period 12: Joint-Impact (Marginal Cost = Zero

• Guide to MC=0 Interdependence
• SSP Outline of Interdependencies Inherent in Landscape Views

Period 13: Transaction Costs (1)

• Varieties of Transaction Costs in SSP Outline
• Information As A Good / Information Aspects of Goods

Period 14: Transaction Costs (2), Institutional Change

• Institutional Change in SSP Terms
• Transaction Cost following North in SSP

Period 15: Organizations

• Simon's Categories in SSP Terms
• Leibenstein in SSP
• The Company Picnic

Period 16: Uncertainty-Information Costs

• Information Cost vs The Economics of Information Production
• Cost of Producing Information Is Not Necessarily An Information Cost
• Competence-Difficulty Gap Application
• Uncertainty (Heiner and Littlechild) in SSP

Period 17.  Time Out (don't you wish)

• Rent (not assigned, but in case you are curious)
• SSP Impact Methodology

Period 19: Exit, Voice or Loyalty

• Hirschman in SSP
• Chrysler Bailout

Period 20: Normative Rules

• Coase or Bastardized Coase?

Period 22: Experimental Economics

• Experiments in Altruism
• Economics, Altruism and Manners

Period 24: Econometric Studies

• Phospahte Mining SSP Chart (Crocker)

Period 27: Technology Institutions

• Triumph of the Nerds--IBM & Gates

If you have any questions or comments, please email schmid@pilot.msu.edu

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