on
economic growth and development
Papers:
“Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of
Economic Growth and Inequality,” with David N. Weil, mimeo,
“Determinants
and Economic Consequences of Colonization: A Global Analysis,” with Arhan
Ertan, mimeo,
“Sub-Saharan
Growth Surprises: Geography, Institutions and History in an All African Data
Panel,” with Matthias Cinyabuguma, Working Paper 2006-21,
“Agriculture,
Diffusion, and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution,”
forthcoming in Economica.
“Early Starts,
Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development,” with Areendam
Chanda, Brown University Department of Economics Working Paper 2004-4; forthcoming,
probably in 2007, Scandinavian Journal of
Economics.
“Social
Capability, History and the Economies of Communist and
“The
Role of the State and Markets in Development,” forthcoming in Amitava Dutt and
Jaime Ros, eds,.International
Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 2.
“The Quest for Development: What Role Does History Play?” with Areendam Chanda, World Economics vol. 5, number 2, April-June 2004, pp. 1-31.
“State Effectiveness, Economic
Growth, and the Age of States,” w/ Areendam Chanda, pp. 69-91 in Matthew Lange
and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., States and Development: Historical
Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance
“States and
Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start,” with Valerie Bockstette and Areendam
Chanda. Journal of Economic Growth 7: 347-69,
2002.
“Can an Evolutionary Approach to Development Predict Post-War Economic Growth?” Journal of Development Studies 36(3): 1-30, 2000.
“Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic
Development: Is There a Link?” with John P. Burkett and Catherine Humblet, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 47
(3): 471-95, 1999.
“Pre-Industrial Development and Modern Economic
Growth: Evidence From Regional Data for
"A
Modified Collective Agriculture in Rural Growth-with-Equity: Reconsidering the
Private, Unimodal Solution," World
Development, 11: 77-100, 1983.
"Population
and Food Dynamics: A Caloric Measurement in
"Agricultural
Producers' Cooperatives," pp. 319-339 in Pranab Bardhan, ed., The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions.
Book:
State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry?, edited and
with introductory and concluding chapters by Louis Putterman and Dietrich
Rueschemeyer.
on experimental
economics
“Not Just
Babble: A Voluntary Contribution
“Monitoring in Teams: A Model and
“Can Endogenously Chosen Institutions
Mitigate the Free-Rider Problem and Reduce Perverse Punishment?” with Arhan
Ertan and Talbot Page, Brown University Department of Economics Working Paper
2005-13.
“Trust, Communication, and Contracts:
An
“Trust, Communication and Contracts:
“The Ecology of Collective Action:
A Public Goods and Sanctions
“Can Second-Order Punishment Deter
Perverse Punishment?” with Matthias Cinyabuguma and Talbot Page,
“Do Non-strategic Sanctions Obey
the Law of Demand? The Demand for Punishment in the Voluntary Contribution
Mechanism,” with Christopher M. Anderson, Games and Economic Behavior 54
(1): 1-24, 2006.
“Voluntary Association in Public
Goods
“Communication
and Punishment in Voluntary Contribution
“Reciprocity
in a Two Part Dictator Game,” with Avner Ben-Ner, Dan Magan and Fanmin Kong, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization 53: 333-52, 2004
“Cooperation Under the Threat of
Expulsion in a Public Goods
on the economy
of
My
work in this area has been focusing increasingly on industrial enterprise
behavior. Some recent papers are:
“
“Privatization and Firm
Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in
“Soft Budget Constraints, Social Burdens, and
Labor Redundancy in
“
“On the Emergence of Labour Redundancy in
Findings from a 1980-1994
Data Panel,” with Xiao-yuan Dong, Comparative
Economic Studies 43(2): 111-28, 2001.
“
“Pre-Reform Industry and State Monopsony in
“
“The Role of Property Rights and
Ownership in China’s Transition,” China
Quarterly No. 144: 1047-64, 1995; reprinted in Andrew Walder, ed., China’s Transitional Economy, Oxford
University Press, 1996, pp. 85-102.
"
"Employment
and Wages in Township, Village, and other Rural Enterprises," with Mark M.
Pitt, in Gary Jefferson and Inderjit Singh, eds.,
"Productivity
and Organization in
"On the
Past and Future of
My
earlier work dealt mainly with agriculture or with the relationship between
agriculture and industry in the reform process.
A late paper in this strand is:
"
Earlier
work includes a book and papers:
Continuity and Change in
"Elasticities
and Factor Weights for Agricultural Growth Accounting: A Look at the Data for
"Productivity
Consequences of
"The
Supply of Labour by Individuals to a Chinese Collective Farm: The Case of Dahe
Commune," Economica 60: 381-96,
1993, with John P. Burkett.
"Dualism
and Reform in
"Contradictions
and Progress: the State, Agriculture, and "Third" Sectors in
"Effort,
Productivity, and Incentives in a 1970's Chinese People's Commune," Journal of Comparative Economics 14:
88-104, 1990.
"Pre-
and Post-Reform Income Distribution in a Chinese Commune: The Case of Dahe
Commune in
"Entering
the Post-Collective Era in North China:
"People's
Republic of
"Group
Farming and Work Incentives in Collective-Era
"Ration
Subsidies and Incentives in the Pre-Reform Chinese Commune," Economica 55: 235-247, 1988.
"The
Incentive Problem and the Demise of Team Farming in
"Extrinsic
versus Intrinsic Problems of Agricultural Cooperation: Anti-Incentivism in
"The
Restoration of the Peasant Household as Farm Production Unit in
"Collectivization
and
"Institutional
Boundaries, Structural Change, and Economic Reform in
"Does
Poor Supervisability Undermine Teamwork?
Evidence from an Unexpected Source," American Economic Review 81 (4): 996-1001, 1991.
"Collectivization,"
in J. Krieger, ed., The
Comments on
Nicholas Lardy, "Recasting the Economic System: Structural Reform of
Agriculture and Industry," pp. 120-123, and on Robert Dernberger,
"The Drive for Economic Modernization and Growth: Performance and
Trends" pp. 218-223 in M. Y.-M. Kau and S. H. Marsh, eds.,
Hebei Province, Dahe Commune/Township: Data Sets and
Codebook,
edited by Louis Putterman, based on data collected by Steven Butler and Louis
Putterman. March, 1989, Center for
Chinese Studies Publications, The
Related book reviews:
Review of Labor Market Reform
in China, by Xin Meng, Journal of Economic Literature,
forthcoming.
Review of Economic Reform and State-Owned Enterprises in China, 1979-1987 by Donald Hay, Derek Morris, Guy Liu, and Shujie Yao, China Quarterly, no. 146: 634-6, 1996.
Review of The Red and the
Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes by
Frederic L. Pryor, Journal of Economic
Literature 31: 1486-8, 1993.
Review of The New China: Comparative Economic
Development in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong by Alvin Rabushka, Journal of Development Economics 32:
230-231, 1990.
Review of
Review of An Analytical and Empirical Investigation of
Agriculture in China, 1952-1980 by Anthony Tang, Journal of Development Economics 26: 423-425, 1987.
Review of
Review of Organizations and Growth in Rural
Review of Rural Economic Reform in China, Keith
Griffin, editor, Journal of Development
Studies 22: 630-631, 1986.
economic organization, economic systems, preferences, values
· Economics, Values and
Organization. This book,
co-edited by Avner Ben-Ner and myself, was published by Cambridge University
Press,
“Economics and Interpersonal Relations: Ruling the Social Back In,”
pp. 262-9 in Benedetto Gui and Robert Sugden, eds., Economics
and Social Interaction: Accounting for Interpersonal Relations
“Reciprocity, and Altruism, and Cooperative Production,” chapter prepared for the Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism, L.-A. Gerard-Varet, S-C. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier, eds., Elsevier North-Holland, forthcoming.
“Trust in the New Economy,” with Avner Ben-Ner, pp. 1067-1095
in Derek C. Jones, ed., Handbook of Economics in the Electronic Age. Academic Press, 2003.
“Trusting and
Trustworthiness,” with Avner Ben-Ner,
“Values and Institutions in Economic Analysis,” by Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman, pp. 3-69 in the above book.
“On Some
Implications of Evolutionary Psychology for the Study of Preferences and
Institutions,” with Avner Ben-Ner, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization 43: 91-99, 2000.
“Values Matter,” World Economics, vol. 1 number 1, January 2000, pp. 39-60, with
Avner Ben-Ner.
“Comment on T. Eggertsson, ‘Limits to
Institutional Reforms,” with Avner Ben-Ner, Scandinavian
Journal of Economics, April 1998.
Also published as “Values, Institutions, and Economics,” The Good Society, April 1998.
On
economic systems, see my book:
Division of Labor and Welfare: An Introduction to Economic
Systems.
Some
pieces on related topics:
“On Economics and Values,” Brown Economic Review, Spring 1997, v. 5, pp. 6-10.
"Factors
Behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work," with Menachem
Rosner, reprinted on pp. 125-52 in Felix Geyer and Walter Heinz, ed., Alienation, Society and the
Individual--Continuity and Change in Theory and Research.
"Amartya
Sen," pp. 498-505 in P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, eds., Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, Edward Elgar
Publishing, 1992.
"Marx
and Disequilibrium: Comment," Economics
and Philosophy 4: 333-336, 1988.
on theory
of the firm and contracts
My
work in this area concerns the ownership and control structure of firms, its
intersection with the question of property rights, and issues of incentives and
monitoring. Recent publications are:
“Trust in the New Economy,” with Avner
Ben-Ner, in Derek C. Jones, ed., Handbook of Economics in the Electronic Age. Academic Press,
forthcoming.
“Why Capital Suppliers (Usually) Hire
Workers: What we Know, and What we Need to Know,” with Gregory Dow, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization 43: 319-336, 2000..
“Employee Participation in Ownership:
An Empirical Exploration,” with Avner Ben-Ner, W. Allen Burns and Greg Dow, pp.
194-233 in Margaret Blair and Thomas Kochan, eds., The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation.
“Why Capital (Usually) Hires Labor: An
Assessment of Proposed Explanations,” with Gregory Dow, pp. 17-57 in Margaret
Blair and Mark Roe, eds., Employees and
Corporate Governance.
· The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader (Second Edition). Edited and with an introductory essay by
Louis Putterman and Randall S. Kroszner.
"Markets,
Hierarchies, and Information: On a Paradox in the Economics of
Organization," Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization 26: 373-90, 1995.
"Exit,
Voice, and Portfolio Choice: Agency and Public Ownership," Economics and Politics 5: 205-18, 1993.
"Ownership
and the Nature of the Firm," Journal
of Comparative Economics 17: 243-63, 1993. (Excerpted in The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader (Second Edition))
Also
see:
"The
Incentive Effects of Monitoring Under Alternative Compensation Schemes," International Journal of Industrial
Organization 6: 109-119, 1988.
With Gil Skillman, Jr.
"The
Firm as Association versus the Firm as Commodity: Efficiency, Rights, and
Ownership," Economics and Philosophy
4: 243-266, 1988.
"Corporate
Governance, Risk-Bearing and Economic Power: A Comment on Recent Work by Oliver
Williamson," Journal of
Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Zeitschrift fur die gesamte
Staatswissenschaft) 143: 422-434, 1987.
"Asset
Specificity, Governance, and the Employment Relation," pp. 45-62 in G.
Dlugos, W. Dorow and K. Weiermair, eds., Management
Under Differing Labour Market and Employment Systems.
"On
Some Recent Explanations of Why Capital Hires Labor," Economic Inquiry 22: 171-187, 1984. Reprinted with abridgements, pp. 312-328 in
Putterman, ed., The Economic Nature of
the Firm: A Reader.
Related
book reviews:
Review of The Firm as a Nexus of Treaties. Masahiko Aoki, Bo Gustafsson, and Oliver
Williamson, eds. Journal of Economic
Literature 24: 1202-4, 1991.
Review of The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms,
Markets, Relational Contracting by Oliver Williamson, Journal of Comparative Economics 11: 282-285, 1987.
Review of The Co-operative Game Theory of the Firm by
Masahiko Aoki, in Journal of Comparative Economics, 10: 183-184, 1986.
Review of Internal Labor Markets, Paul Osterman,
editor, in Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization 6: 212-16, 1985.
on
Africa (especially
“Sub-Saharan
Growth Surprises: Geography, Institutions and History in an All African Data
Panel,” with Matthias Cinyabuguma, Working Paper 2006-21,
“Human Capital, Social
Capital, and Rural Economic Development in
"Social
Capital and Development Capacity: The Example of Rural
"Economic
Reform and Smallholder Agriculture in
"Tanzanian
Markets 'as Unpredictable as the Rains'," in African Farmer (quarterly publication of The Hunger Project),
April, 1994, pp. 30-32.
"Extrinsic
versus Intrinsic Problems of Agricultural Cooperation: Anti-Incentivism in
“Cooperatives and Nonprofits
in Africa: Some Incentive and Agency Issues,” paper presented at an Economic
Development Institute (World Bank) workshop,
Peasants, Collectives, and Choice: Economic Theory and
"Choice
and Efficiency in a Model of Democratic Semi-Collective Agriculture,"
"The
Planned Cooperative Community in a Developing Country: The Case of
Tanzania," Journal of Rural Cooperation
XII (no.1/2): 53-64, 1984.
"A
Modified Collective Agriculture in Rural Growth-with-Equity: Reconsidering the
Private, Unimodal Solution," World
Development, 11: 77-100, 1983.
"Economic
Motivation and the Transition to Collective Socialism: It's Application to
"Is a
Democratic Collective Agriculture Possible? Theoretical
Considerations and Evidence from
"Voluntary
Collectivization: A Model of Producers' Institutional Choice," Journal of Comparative Economics, 4:
125-157, 1980.
"Tanzanian
Rural Socialism and Statism Revisited: What Light from the Chinese
Experience?" pp. 230-239 in Jeannette Hartmann, ed., Re-Thinking the Arusha Declaration.
"Agricultural
Cooperation and Village Democracy in
"Village
Communities, Cooperation, and Inequality in
"Tanzanian
and African Socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer," World Development 12: 461-464, 1984.
Book Reviews:
Food Insecurity and the Social Division of Labor in
Ideology and Development in
on worker
participation in management and theories of cooperation
-
Recent work:
“Labor Managed Firms,” forthcoming in
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition.
“Why Capital Suppliers (Usually) Hire
Workers: What we Know, and What we Need to Know,” with Gregory Dow, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization 43: 319-336, 2000..
“Employee Participation in Ownership:
An Empirical Exploration,” with Avner Ben-Ner, W. Allen Burns and Greg Dow, pp.
194-233 in Margaret Blair and Thomas Kochan, eds., The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation.
“Why Capital (Usually) Hires Labor: An
Assessment of Proposed Explanations,” with Gregory Dow, pp. 17-57 in Margaret
Blair and Mark Roe, eds., Employees and
Corporate Governance.
-
Earlier, now published work, includes:
Economics of Cooperation and the
Labor-Managed Economy. Fundamentals
of Pure and Applied Economics, Volume 14.
Papers in Journals:
"Incentives
and Monitoring in Cooperatives with Labor- Proportionate Sharing Schemes,"
Journal of Comparative Economics 17:
663-686, 1993, with John P. Bonin.
(Reprinted in D. Prychitko and J. Vanek, eds., Producer Cooperatives and Labor-Managed Systems.
"Theoretical
and Empirical Research on Producers' Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain
Meet?" Journal of Economic
Literature 31: 1290-1320, 1993, with John P. Bonin and Derek C. Jones.
"Factors Behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and
Some International Illustrations," Journal
of Economic Studies 18 (1): 18-41, 1991, with Menachem Rosner. (Reprinted in International
Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 11: 125-52, 1991, and in Geyer and
Heinz, ed., Alienation, Society and the
Individual [listed below].)
"Commodification
of Labor Follows Commodification of the Firm: On a Theorem of the New
Institutional Economics," Annals of
Public and Cooperative Economics 60: 161-179, 1989.
"The
Incentive Effects of Monitoring Under Alternative Compensation Schemes," International Journal of Industrial
Organization 6: 109-119, 1988.
With Gil Skillman, Jr.
"The
Firm as Association versus the Firm as Commodity: Efficiency, Rights, and
Ownership," Economics and Philosophy
4: 243-266, 1988.
"Incentives
and the Kibbutz: Toward an Economics of Communal Work Motivation," Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie, 43:
157-188, 1983.
"Some
Behavioral Perspectives on the Dominance of Hierarchical over Democratic Forms
of
Papers in Books:
"After
the Employment Relation: Problems on the Road to Enterprise Democracy,"
pp. 129-47 in S. Bowles, H. Gintis, & B. Gustafsson, eds., The Microfoundations of Political Economy:
Problems of Participation, Democracy, and Efficiency.
"On the
Interdependence of Labor Supplies in Producers' Cooperatives of Given
Membership," pp. 87-105 in Advances
in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms Vol. I, 1985, Jai Press.
Shorter Papers and Comments:
"On
Optimality in Collective Institutional Choice," Journal of Comparative Economics, 5: 392-402, 1981.
"The
Organization of Work: Comment," Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2: 273-279, 1981.
Book Reviews:
The Co-operative Game Theory of the Firm by Masahiko
Aoki, in Journal of Comparative Economics, 10: 183-184, 1986.
Self-Management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice,
by Saul Estrin,
in Journal of Comparative Economics,
9: 102-106, 1985.
Workers and Incentives by Murat R. Sertel et al., in Journal of Comparative Economics, 8:
228-231, 1984.
on
inequality, redistribution, and public ownership
Papers in Journals:
“Preferences for Taxation and Redistribution: An
"Exit,
Voice, and Portfolio Choice: Agency and Public Ownership," Economics and Politics 5: 205-18, 1993.
“A Note on Income Distribution and Government Transfers,” with William Bassett and John P. Burkett, European Journal of Political Economy 15(2): 207-228, 1999.
"Does egalitarianism have a
future?" with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre, Journal of Economic Literature 36: 861-902, 1998.
"Why Have
the Rabble not Redistributed the Wealth?
On the Stability of Democracy and Unequal
Wealth," in J. E. Roemer, ed., Property
Relations, Incentives and Welfare.
"Incentive
Problems Favoring Noncentralized Investment Fund Ownership," pp. 156-68 in
P. Bardhan and J.E. Roemer, eds., Market
Socialism: The Current Debate.
Papers in Books:
“Inequality,
Justice and Economics,” Paper prepared for the International Symposium
on Equity and Social Justice in Transitional China, July 11-12, 2002,
Shorter Papers and Comments:
“Redistribution,
Risk-Aversion, and Culture,” The Good
Society, 9 (3) 16-21, 2000.
“Comments on
‘A Future for Socialism’,” Politics and
Society 22: 489-505, 1994, and under the title “Coupons, Agency and Social
Betterment” pp. 139-58 in Erik Olin Wright, ed., Equal Shares: Making Market
Socialism Work.
Book Reviews:
Review of Whither Socialism? by Joseph Stiglitz, Journal
of Comparative Economics, 22: 329-32, 1996.
Review of Free to Lose: An Introduction to Marxist
Economic Philosophy by John E. Roemer.
Journal of Economic Literature
27: 91-92, 1989.