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An economic model of the demand and supply of votes : some tentative empirical results
(1976)
The electoral process is an integral part of democratic decision-making. It is traditionally viewed as the one means by which those governed make known their preferences regarding the rules by which they wish to be ...
An investigation on spatial price discrimination in three countries
(1976)
The economics of space, particularly the theory of spatial pricing, has remained largely outside the basic structure of traditional (nonspatial) economic theory. This isolation stems from the fact that most of the literature ...
Optimum fisheries utilization by individual firms : a study in property rights under a stock-flow production relationship
(1976)
For some time economists have studied the resource allocation problems that arise in marine fisheries because of nonexclusive property structures. The purpose of this dissertation is to extend this work by examining the ...
A theoretical-empirical investigation of usury laws
(1976)
The concept of usury is found in Western man's earliest writings on ethical principles, e.g. the Bible and the works of Aristotle, and has been embodied in statutes forbidding (or limiting the rate of) interest. In the ...
Henry Sidgwick : externalities and the emergence of the new concept of laissez-faire
(1976)
Henry Sidgwick's work in economics has largely been regarded as an expositor of J. S. Mill. This dissertation shows that this conception of Sidgwick's economic writings is erroneous - that he went far beyond simply examining ...
Aspects of plant location theory under conditions of uncertainty
(1976)
The economics of space, particularly the theory of industrial location, has remained largely outside of the basic structure of classical (nonspatial) economic theory. This isolation stems from the fact that most of the ...
Tests of the strong axiom of revealed preference theory and variations in consumer equilibrium demand in a token economy
(1976)
Experimental studies using humans in planned environments have made it possible to examine consumer behavior using observations of known levels of accuracy. This research on consumer demand theory is based on the analysis ...
Property rights, incentives, and the behavior of the state enterprise in Mainland China
(1976)
Radical economists and a few students of contemporary China have frequently asserted that China's experience with socialism is considerably outside of the neoclassical paradigm and, hence, deserves special treatment. While ...
Empirical studies in the theory of public choice
(1976)
The theory of public choice suggests that political behavior can be fruitfully analyzed and explained with the usual tools of economics. Traditional microeconomic theory focuses primarily on the behavior of economic agents ...
Queues, stochastic demand and the value of excess capacity in the steel industry
(1976)
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the value of excess or reserve capacity in the steel industry. The model presented indicates a difference between gross and net arrivals resulting from the balking process. Waiting ...