Michael Riordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5806744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Riordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Riordan |
| SIGNATURE | RIORDAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8061-818X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The King's Library of Manuscripts”
The State Papers were the principal executive instruments of the early modern English state. By 1610 they were kept in the State Paper Office, remaining there until 1854, when they were subsumed into the Public Record Office. This article examines whether the State Paper Office, over two centuries, had more characteristics of a modern archive or a library. To do so, it looks at the key archival processes of appraisal, and arrangement and descript…
Makers of the Microchip
Reviewed by: Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor Michael Riordan (bio) Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor. By Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. xii+312. $24.95. During the past few decades, scholars have been steadily building an edifice of works on the history of the semiconductor technology—the material culture of what is wide…
Rise of the Standard Model
Price and Variety in the Spokes Model
The spokes model of nonlocalized spatial competition provides a new analytical tool for differentiated oligopoly and a representation of spatial monopolistic competition. At the unique symmetric equilibrium of the spokes model, an increase in the number of firms leads to lower prices when consumers have relatively high product valuations, but, surprisingly, to higher prices for lower consumer valuations. New entry alters consumer and social welfa…
Stephen Gardiner and the Making of a Protestant Villain
Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester 1531-55, is familiar as Wily Winchester, the villain of Foxe's Actes and Monuments. Foxe, however, was building on a long evangelical tradition which cast Gardiner as Antichrist's chief agent in England. This reputation was grounded less on Gardiner's own conduct than on the reformers' need for a scapegoat to explain the failure of their early hopes and to exonerate Henry VIII. Beginning in the late 1530s, t…
Cultivating the Civic Scientist
As part of the symposium “Cultivating the Civic Scientist” at the 2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a panel of two science journalists and a scientist explored key issues surrounding the civic scientist concept. This panel discussion is based on part of that conversation
The Rise of the Standard Model
Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the…
Cooperation and punishment under repeated majority voting
Advertising as a Signal
A great deal of advertising appears to convey no direct credible information about product qualities. Nevertheless, such advertising may indirectly signal quality if there exist market mechanisms that produce a positive relationship between product quality and advertising expenditures. Two models of this phenomenon are presented. In each, advertising signals quality in the short run. The models differ in their treatment of the effect of advertisi…
Price and Variety in the Spokes Model
The spokes model of nonlocalized spatial competition provides a new analytical tool for differentiated oligopoly and a representation of spatial monopolistic competition. At the unique symmetric equilibrium of the spokes model, an increase in the number of firms leads to lower prices when consumers have relatively high product valuations, but, surprisingly, to higher prices for lower consumer valuations. New entry alters consumer and social welfa…
Advertising as a Signal
A great deal of advertising appears to convey no direct credible information about product qualities. Nevertheless, such advertising may indirectly signal quality if there exist market mechanisms that produce a positive relationship between product quality and advertising expenditures. Two models of this phenomenon are presented. In each, advertising signals quality in the short run. The models differ in their treatment of the effect of advertisi…
Cooperation and punishment under repeated majority voting
Cultivating the Civic Scientist
As part of the symposium “Cultivating the Civic Scientist” at the 2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a panel of two science journalists and a scientist explored key issues surrounding the civic scientist concept. This panel discussion is based on part of that conversation
Advertising as a Signal
A great deal of advertising appears to convey no direct credible information about product qualities. Nevertheless, such advertising may indirectly signal quality if there exist market mechanisms that produce a positive relationship between product quality and advertising expenditures. Two models of this phenomenon are presented. In each, advertising signals quality in the short run. The models differ in their treatment of the effect of advertisi…
Cooperation and punishment under repeated majority voting
The Rise of the Standard Model
Editors Laurie Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson and Michael Riordan have brought together a distinguished group of elementary particle physicists and historians of science to explore the recent history of particle physics. Based on a conference held at Stanford University, this is the third volume of a series recounting the history of particle physics and offers the most up-to-date account of the rise of the Standard Model, which explains the…
Cultivating the Civic Scientist
As part of the symposium “Cultivating the Civic Scientist” at the 2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a panel of two science journalists and a scientist explored key issues surrounding the civic scientist concept. This panel discussion is based on part of that conversation
Stephen Gardiner and the Making of a Protestant Villain
Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester 1531-55, is familiar as Wily Winchester, the villain of Foxe's Actes and Monuments. Foxe, however, was building on a long evangelical tradition which cast Gardiner as Antichrist's chief agent in England. This reputation was grounded less on Gardiner's own conduct than on the reformers' need for a scapegoat to explain the failure of their early hopes and to exonerate Henry VIII. Beginning in the late 1530s, t…
Price and Variety in the Spokes Model
The spokes model of nonlocalized spatial competition provides a new analytical tool for differentiated oligopoly and a representation of spatial monopolistic competition. At the unique symmetric equilibrium of the spokes model, an increase in the number of firms leads to lower prices when consumers have relatively high product valuations, but, surprisingly, to higher prices for lower consumer valuations. New entry alters consumer and social welfa…
Rise of the Standard Model
Makers of the Microchip
Reviewed by: Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor Michael Riordan (bio) Makers of the Microchip: A Documentary History of Fairchild Semiconductor. By Christophe Lécuyer and David C. Brock. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. xii+312. $24.95. During the past few decades, scholars have been steadily building an edifice of works on the history of the semiconductor technology—the material culture of what is wide…
“The King's Library of Manuscripts”
The State Papers were the principal executive instruments of the early modern English state. By 1610 they were kept in the State Paper Office, remaining there until 1854, when they were subsumed into the Public Record Office. This article examines whether the State Paper Office, over two centuries, had more characteristics of a modern archive or a library. To do so, it looks at the key archival processes of appraisal, and arrangement and descript…
Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Merger and Competition Analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)