Selected Publications on this Page:
- Books:
- Alston, Lee J. and Joseph P. Ferrie. Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Alston, Lee J., 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.
- Alston, Lee J., Thrainn Eggertsson, and Douglass North. Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Translated into Chinese.)
- U.S. Economic History:
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Alston, Lee J., Jeffery A. Jenkins, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. "Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873," Journal of Economic History: (September 2006). NBER Working Paper 11908 Program on the Development of the American Economy.
- Alston, Lee J. and Joseph Ferrie. “Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938," Journal of Economic History (December 2005): 1058-1081. Also published as NBER Working Paper 11231 Program on the Development of the American Economy.
- Alston, Lee J., Ruth Dupre, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. "Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the United States and Canada," Explorations in Economic History (December 2002).
- Alston, Lee J. and Kyle Kauffman. "Competition and the Compensation of Sharecroppers by Race: A View from Plantations in the Early Twentieth Century," Explorations in Economic History 38, Number 1 (January 2001): 181-194.
- Alston, Lee J. and Kyle Kauffman. "Agricultural Chutes and Ladders: New Estimates of Sharecroppers and "True Tenants" in the South, 1900-1920," Journal of Economic History (June 1997): 464-475.
- Alston, Lee J., Wayne Grove, and David Wheelock. "Why Do Banks Fail: Evidence from the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, (September 1994): 409-431.
- Alston, Lee J. and Joseph Ferrie. "Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State," American Economic Review (September 1993): 852-876. Reprinted in The International Library of the New Institutional Economics edited by Claude Menard, (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005).
- Alston, Lee J. and T.J. Hatton. "The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925-1941," Journal of Economic History, 51 (March 1991): 83-100.
- Rucker, Randal and Lee J. Alston. "Farm Failures and Government Intervention: A Case Study of the 1930s," American Economic Review, 77 (September 1987): 724-730.
- Alston, Lee J. and Joseph Ferrie. "Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture: A Constraint on the Growth of the Welfare State," The Journal of Economic History, XLV (March 1985): 95-117.
- Alston, Lee J. and Morton Schapiro. "Inheritance Laws Across Colonies: Causes and Consequences," Journal of Economic History, XLIV (June 1984): 277-287.
- Alston, Lee J. "Farm Foreclosure Moratorium Legislation: A Lesson from the Past," American Economic Review, 74 (June 1984): 445-457.
- Alston, Lee J. "Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period," Journal of Economic History, XLIII (December 1983): 885-903.
- Alston, Lee J. and Robert Higgs. "Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests," Journal of Economic History, XLII (June 1982): 327-353.
- Alston, Lee J. "Tenure Choice in Southern Agriculture, 1930-1960," Explorations in Economic History, 18 (July 1981): 211-232.
- Alston, Lee J. "Issues in Postbellum Southern Agriculture," in Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century, edited by Louis Ferleger (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990): 207-228.
- Brazil Work:
- Alston, Lee J. and Bernardo Mueller. Brazilian Development: This time for real? CESifo Forum 1/2011
- Alston, Lee J., 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).
- Alston, Lee J. and Bernardo Mueller. "Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil," Journal of Law Economics and Organization. 22, Number 1 (Spring 2006): 87-114. Also published as NBER Working Paper 11273 Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics.
- Alston, Lee J. and Bernardo Mueller. “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.
- Alston, Lee J., 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, 2005).
- Alston, Lee J., 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.
- Alston, Lee J., 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.
- Alston, Lee J., Gary Libecap, and Robert Schneider. "The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier," Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (1996): 25-61.
- Alston, Lee J., 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.
- Political Economy and Methodological Work in the New Institutional Economics:
- Alston, Lee J. and Krister Andersson. 2011. "Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by forest protection: The transaction costs of implementing REDD". Climate Law Vol. 2, No. 2: 281-289.
- Alston, Lee J., Shannon Mattiace, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. "Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915". The Journal of Economic History: (March 2009):104-137.
- Alston, Lee J. "The "Case" for Case Studies in the New Institutional Economics" in New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook edited by Jean-Michel Glachant and Eric Brousseau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008).
- Alston, Lee J. and 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).
- Alston, Lee J. "Tenant Farming" in Joel Mokyr (editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 5, (2003): 97-101.
- Alston, Lee J. and Bernardo Mueller. "Property Rights to Land" in Joel Mokyr (editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 4, (2003): 274-279
- Alston, Lee J. "Sharecropping" in Joel Mokyr (editor) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History 4, (2003): 475-478.
- Alston, Lee J. and Andres Gallo. "The Political Economy of Bank Reform in Argentina Under Convertibility" The Journal of Policy Reform, 5, Number (2002): 1-16.
- Alston, Lee J. "History Matters," in Liberalization and its Consequences: A Comparative Perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe,, edited by Werner Baer and Joseph Love (Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2000).
- Alston, Lee J. "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.
- Alston, Lee J. and David Fairris. "Wages and the Intensity of Labor Effort: Efficiency Wages versus Compensating Payments," Southern Economic Journal (July 1994): 149-160.
- Alston, Lee J. "Institutions and Markets in History: Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe," in Economic Transformations in East and Central Europe: Legacies from the Past and Policies for the Future, edited by David Good (London: Rutledge Press, 1994): 43-59.
- Alston, Lee J. and Paul L. Robertson. "Technological Choice and the Organization of Work in Capitalist Firms," Economic History Review, XLV (May 1992): 330-349.
- Alston, Lee J. and 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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