Selected Publications on this Page:

Books | U.S. Economic History | Brazil Work | Political Economy and Methodological Work in the New Institutional Economics

  • Books:
  • (Co-authored with Joseph P. Ferrie) Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the U.S. South, 1865-1965. (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier. (University of Michigan Press, 1999).
  • (Co-edited with Thrainn Eggertsson and Douglass North) Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Translated into Chinese.

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  • Brazil Work:
  • (Co-authored with Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira) Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil. Latin American Research Network Working Paper no. R-509. Washington D.C.: Research Division: Inter-American Development Bank: December 2005).
  • (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller) "Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil" Journal of Law Economics and Organization. 22, no.1 (2006): 87-114.
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  • (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller) "A Crtical Review of Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean with an Emphasis on Brazilian Labor Institutions" edited by James Heckman and Carmen Pagés in International Comparative Law Review 25, Number 2 (2004): 339-348.
  • (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) "Land Reform Policies, The Sources of Violent Conflict and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2000). Reprinted in The International Library of the New Institutional Economics edited by Claude Menard, (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).
  • (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) "A Model of Rural Conflict: Violence and Land Reform Policy in Brazil," Environment and Development Economics 4, (1999): 135-160.
  • (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) "Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the U.S. Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers," in Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800 edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998): 55-84.
  • (Co-authored with Gary Libecap and Robert Schneider) "The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Census Data and Survey Results for Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier" Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (1996): 25-61.
  • (Co-authored with Gary Libecap and Robert Schneider) "Property Rights and the Preconditions for Markets: The Case of the Amazon Frontier" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol., 151, No.1, (March 1995): 89-107.

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  • Political Economy and Methodological Work in the New Institutional Economics:
  • "The "Case" for Case Studies in the New Institutional Economics" in New Institutional Economics: A Textbook, edited by Jean-Michel Glachant (forthcoming 2005)
  • (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller). "Property Rights and the State." in Claude Menard and Mary M. Shirley, eds. Handbook for New Institutional Economics. Norwell MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004).
  • "Tenant Farming" in Joel Mokyr (editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 5, (2003): 97-101.
  • (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller). "Property Rights to Land" in Joel Mokyr (editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 4, (2003): 274-279
  • "Sharecropping" in the Joel Mokyr (editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 4, (2003): 475-478.
  • (Co-authored with Andres Gallo) "The Political Economy of Bank Reform in Argentina Under Convertibility" The Journal of Policy Reform, 5, Number (2002): 1-16.
  • "History Matters," in Privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Werner Baer and Joseph Love (Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2000).
  • "Technological Change, Transaction Costs, and the Industrial Organization of Cotton Production in the U.S. South: 1950-1970," in Authority and Control in Modern Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, edited by Paul L. Robertson (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999): 140-154.
  • (Co-authored with David Fairris) "Wages and the Intensity of Labor Effort: Efficiency Wages versus Compensating Payments," Southern Economic Journal (July 1994): 149-160.
  • "Institutions and Markets in History: Lessons for Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States," in The Economic Transformation of Central Europe: Lessons and Legacies from the Past, edited by David Good (London: Rutledge Press, 1994): 43-59.
  • (Co-authored with Paul L. Robertson) "Technological Choice and the Organization of Work in Capitalist Firms," Economic History Review, XLV (May 1992): 330-349.
  • (Co-authored with William Gillespie) "Resource Coordination and Transaction Costs: A Framework for Analyzing the Firm/Market Boundary," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (April 1989): 1-22.

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