Michael Mcbride
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mcbride |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbride |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRIDE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hill Country Archeological Association, Kerrville, TX, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5274-7275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Daoist Immortal Ma Danyang and the Secrets of the Twelve Heavenly Star Points
Theory-of-mind ability and cooperation
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy
Macrodebitage Writ Small? Studying Stoneknapping with Experimental Archaeology, Dynamic Image Analysis, and Statistics
Redefining lithic microdebitage with experimental archaeology
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples
Unlike larger stone tools and debitage, the analysis of microdebitage (measuring less than 6 mm) allows for identifying likely areas where stone tools were manufactured at prehistoric archaeological sites. The tedious, time-consuming, and costly nature of microdebitage, however, has overshadowed its data potential, making most archaeologists wary of implementing this method. To alleviate these issues, this study introduces an experimental protoco…
Money Talks
Faithonomics
One hallmark of the economic approach to religion is the treating of religion as a type of service that consumers pursue in a marketplace. Some critics have argued that this approach and its conclusions might apply in the Protestant Christian West but nowhere else. Torkel Brekke confronts this criticism in Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market. Not only is the economic approach fresh and useful, he argues, but it is also vital for understand…
A rational choice theory of religious authority
The rational choice literature on religion has been noticeably silent on the nature and purpose of religious authority. I first summarize the rational choice theory of authority and offer a rational choice definition of religious authority. A primary insight is that (religious) authority exists to coordinate social action. I then argue that social coordination is a fundamental aspect of religious life, perhaps equally important as the social dile…
The efficacy of tables versus graphs in disrupting dark networks
Peace and War With Endogenous State Capacity
We explore how peace or war can occur in the presence of commitment problems. These problems can be reduced by institutions of good governance or, alternatively, state capacity which (a) can be considered a collective good and (b) can be improved through investments. We show how the likelihood of a peace agreement depends on the level of state capacity and on investments in state capacity made by adversaries. In accordance with existing evidence …
Marketplace of the Gods
Religious Market Competition in a Richer World
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a formal model of religious competition, I show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious activity in an open religious market, and that it has little effect in a religious market that is already secularized due to regulations that prohibit religious competition or in a highly religious market with regulations that inhibit secu…
Position-specific information in social networks
Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation
Does religious pluralism decrease religious participation or increase it? Secularization theorists claim the former, while religious economies proponents claim the latter, and each side has used estimated pluralism‐participation correlations to support its argument. Using a formal game theoretic model, this article shows how religious market forces and regulations generate plausible pluralism‐participation correlations, whether or not the direct …
Club Mormon
The Mormon Church is best understood as a club, in the economics sense of the term. It succeeds, in part, because it identifies and selectively rewards high contributors, thereby limiting free-riding and producing large religious benefits for its members. First, it offers a menu of club goods of varying excludability, with the most valued goods excluded from less-committed members. Second, to enforce this menu, it actively monitors its members us…
Comment on Mark, ASR, June 2002
Relative-income effects on subjective well-being in the cross-section
Aunt Jemima Isn't Keeping Up with the Energizer Bunny
Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Although the 1990s have witnessed unprecedented immigration and refugee flows, many receiving countries in the West, including the US, have begun to apply more restrictionist policies as a result of perceived threats to their economies and cultural homogeneity. US immigrant policy has generally responded to economic concerns and domestic pressures, while US refugee policy has reflected foreign policy concerns, especially the desire to embarrass c…
Environmental Policy in the USSR. Charles E. Ziegler
The Soviet Central Committee
This paper is a study of the backgrounds of the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The purpose of its first part is to present and interpret certain quantitative material concerning the background characteristics of the members of the Central Committee. The conclusion elaborates premises regarding the function of co-optation in the higher Party organs and suggests possible relationships of this function t…
Club Mormon
The Mormon Church is best understood as a club, in the economics sense of the term. It succeeds, in part, because it identifies and selectively rewards high contributors, thereby limiting free-riding and producing large religious benefits for its members. First, it offers a menu of club goods of varying excludability, with the most valued goods excluded from less-committed members. Second, to enforce this menu, it actively monitors its members us…
Peace and War With Endogenous State Capacity
We explore how peace or war can occur in the presence of commitment problems. These problems can be reduced by institutions of good governance or, alternatively, state capacity which (a) can be considered a collective good and (b) can be improved through investments. We show how the likelihood of a peace agreement depends on the level of state capacity and on investments in state capacity made by adversaries. In accordance with existing evidence …
Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation
Does religious pluralism decrease religious participation or increase it? Secularization theorists claim the former, while religious economies proponents claim the latter, and each side has used estimated pluralism‐participation correlations to support its argument. Using a formal game theoretic model, this article shows how religious market forces and regulations generate plausible pluralism‐participation correlations, whether or not the direct …
Religious Market Competition in a Richer World
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a formal model of religious competition, I show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious activity in an open religious market, and that it has little effect in a religious market that is already secularized due to regulations that prohibit religious competition or in a highly religious market with regulations that inhibit secu…
The Soviet Central Committee
This paper is a study of the backgrounds of the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The purpose of its first part is to present and interpret certain quantitative material concerning the background characteristics of the members of the Central Committee. The conclusion elaborates premises regarding the function of co-optation in the higher Party organs and suggests possible relationships of this function t…
Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Although the 1990s have witnessed unprecedented immigration and refugee flows, many receiving countries in the West, including the US, have begun to apply more restrictionist policies as a result of perceived threats to their economies and cultural homogeneity. US immigrant policy has generally responded to economic concerns and domestic pressures, while US refugee policy has reflected foreign policy concerns, especially the desire to embarrass c…
Aunt Jemima Isn't Keeping Up with the Energizer Bunny
A rational choice theory of religious authority
The rational choice literature on religion has been noticeably silent on the nature and purpose of religious authority. I first summarize the rational choice theory of authority and offer a rational choice definition of religious authority. A primary insight is that (religious) authority exists to coordinate social action. I then argue that social coordination is a fundamental aspect of religious life, perhaps equally important as the social dile…
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples
Unlike larger stone tools and debitage, the analysis of microdebitage (measuring less than 6 mm) allows for identifying likely areas where stone tools were manufactured at prehistoric archaeological sites. The tedious, time-consuming, and costly nature of microdebitage, however, has overshadowed its data potential, making most archaeologists wary of implementing this method. To alleviate these issues, this study introduces an experimental protoco…
Redefining lithic microdebitage with experimental archaeology
The Soviet Central Committee
This paper is a study of the backgrounds of the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The purpose of its first part is to present and interpret certain quantitative material concerning the background characteristics of the members of the Central Committee. The conclusion elaborates premises regarding the function of co-optation in the higher Party organs and suggests possible relationships of this function t…
Environmental Policy in the USSR. Charles E. Ziegler
Aunt Jemima Isn't Keeping Up with the Energizer Bunny
Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Although the 1990s have witnessed unprecedented immigration and refugee flows, many receiving countries in the West, including the US, have begun to apply more restrictionist policies as a result of perceived threats to their economies and cultural homogeneity. US immigrant policy has generally responded to economic concerns and domestic pressures, while US refugee policy has reflected foreign policy concerns, especially the desire to embarrass c…
Relative-income effects on subjective well-being in the cross-section
Comment on Mark, ASR, June 2002
Club Mormon
The Mormon Church is best understood as a club, in the economics sense of the term. It succeeds, in part, because it identifies and selectively rewards high contributors, thereby limiting free-riding and producing large religious benefits for its members. First, it offers a menu of club goods of varying excludability, with the most valued goods excluded from less-committed members. Second, to enforce this menu, it actively monitors its members us…
Position-specific information in social networks
Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation
Does religious pluralism decrease religious participation or increase it? Secularization theorists claim the former, while religious economies proponents claim the latter, and each side has used estimated pluralism‐participation correlations to support its argument. Using a formal game theoretic model, this article shows how religious market forces and regulations generate plausible pluralism‐participation correlations, whether or not the direct …
Religious Market Competition in a Richer World
Economic growth has not led to a decline in religion despite past predictions that it would. Using a formal model of religious competition, I show how economic growth produces counteracting effects on religious activity in an open religious market, and that it has little effect in a religious market that is already secularized due to regulations that prohibit religious competition or in a highly religious market with regulations that inhibit secu…
Peace and War With Endogenous State Capacity
We explore how peace or war can occur in the presence of commitment problems. These problems can be reduced by institutions of good governance or, alternatively, state capacity which (a) can be considered a collective good and (b) can be improved through investments. We show how the likelihood of a peace agreement depends on the level of state capacity and on investments in state capacity made by adversaries. In accordance with existing evidence …
Marketplace of the Gods
The efficacy of tables versus graphs in disrupting dark networks
A rational choice theory of religious authority
The rational choice literature on religion has been noticeably silent on the nature and purpose of religious authority. I first summarize the rational choice theory of authority and offer a rational choice definition of religious authority. A primary insight is that (religious) authority exists to coordinate social action. I then argue that social coordination is a fundamental aspect of religious life, perhaps equally important as the social dile…
Money Talks
Faithonomics
One hallmark of the economic approach to religion is the treating of religion as a type of service that consumers pursue in a marketplace. Some critics have argued that this approach and its conclusions might apply in the Protestant Christian West but nowhere else. Torkel Brekke confronts this criticism in Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market. Not only is the economic approach fresh and useful, he argues, but it is also vital for understand…
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples
Unlike larger stone tools and debitage, the analysis of microdebitage (measuring less than 6 mm) allows for identifying likely areas where stone tools were manufactured at prehistoric archaeological sites. The tedious, time-consuming, and costly nature of microdebitage, however, has overshadowed its data potential, making most archaeologists wary of implementing this method. To alleviate these issues, this study introduces an experimental protoco…
Redefining lithic microdebitage with experimental archaeology
Macrodebitage Writ Small? Studying Stoneknapping with Experimental Archaeology, Dynamic Image Analysis, and Statistics
Theory-of-mind ability and cooperation
Early hominins and the reversal of dominance hierarchy
The Daoist Immortal Ma Danyang and the Secrets of the Twelve Heavenly Star Points
Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works)