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30 Jun

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"Information Processing and Organizational Structure" (with William E. Watkins), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 36 (1998)

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Standard economic theories of the firm (and other organizations) stress profit maximization as the foundation for derivation of predictable behavior. Yet statistical and case-study evidence continues to accumulate that real firms do not act as required by the neoclassical framework.  Instead of being represented by ever more elaborate maximization models,...

30 Jun

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"Delivered Pricing and Multiple Basing Point Equilibria: A Re-evaluation" Quarterly Journal of Economics 99, 1984

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This paper examines delivered pricing with systematic freight absorption in the light of the modern theory of spatial competition. Delivered pricing, multiple basing point equilibria are compared with f.o.b. mill pricing equilibria under a variety of assumptions about market structure and  firms'  conjectural  variations.  It is shown that there is no clear...

30 Jun

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"Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Reappraisal" The Centennial Review 34, 1990.

 

Reprinted in part in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 50:  Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations.  James E. Person, Jr., Ed., Catherine C....