Robert B Ekelund
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 527353 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert B Ekelund |
| PRENOMES | Robert B |
| SOBRENOME | Ekelund |
| ASSINATURA | EKELUND R B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Auburn University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Rent seeking as an evolving process
Memories of Bob Tollison
The Economics of Religious Schism and Switching
Schism and switching are important in religious markets when strict monopoly or force is not involved. The Protestant Reformation is an important case and may be seen as entry of a new firm into a previously monopolized market. This was essentially rent dissipation. Other cases may involve religious consumers switching to firms that better match their religious preferences. Firms in such a setting make strategic decisions about doctrine and costs…
Secularism, Religion, and Political Choice in the United States
The effect of religion on political behavior and attachment has been a topic of intense interest in the United States and elsewhere. Less attention has been paid to the issue of secularism. Some analysts have viewed secularism as anabsenceof religious attachment, and a number of studies have utilized indices of secularization to analyze such topics as economic development or modernization. In this article, we show that secularism, like religion, …
On "Translating" History
The impatience with "rational behavior" that Ramsay MacMullen expresses in his review essay, "The Translation of History," has apparently led him to misinterpret portions of our book, Origins of Roman Christianity. Moreover, in addition to locating so-called "factual errors" in our work, he recommends the Kahneman-Tversky attempt to inject psychology (and neuroscience) into market behavior as a kind of "new economics" that challenges the "rationa…
The Intellectual Legacy of Jules Dupuit
The achievements of Jules Dupuit (1804–1866), French engineer and economist, policymaker and molder of the canon of neoclassical microeconomic theory, are displayed in their entirety through Yves Breton and Gérard Klotz‘s compilation of his collected works, Oeuvres économiques complètes (Éditions Economica, 2009). This magisterial two-volume set makes available for the first time in a convenient format all of Dupuit‘s major and subsidiary writing…
Dupuit and the Railroads
Guy Numa is justified in calling attention to our erroneous translation of a passage from Jules Dupuit's Dictionnaire article of 1853. His conclusions, however, regarding Dupuit's "global" policy prescriptions on the operation of railroads, and their semi-convergence with the views of Walras, do not withstand scrutiny when examined against the totality of Dupuit's economic writings. In this article we reaffirm and defend our body of work that dep…
Desperation votes and private interests
Interest-group analysis in economic history and the history of economic thought
Interest groups, public choice and the economics of religion
Art Museum Attendance, Public Funding, and the Business Cycle
There are a number of important problems in contemporary museum finance, and this article identifies yet another possible difficulty. An aggregate statistical measure of museum attendance is calculated in this research and the attendance measure is shown to be countercyclical in nature. When set against federal and other allocations to museums, which are clearly pro-cyclical in nature, an attendance "disease" may be at least tentatively identifie…
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure
Research Article| November 01 2005 Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert F. Hébert; Robert F. Hébert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert D. Tollison Robert D. Tollison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 647–660. https://doi.org/10.12…
Ethics, Engineering, and Natural Monopoly
David M. Levy, How the Dismal Science Got its Name
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation
This paper seeks to explain the initial successes and failures of Protestantism on economic grounds. It argues that the medieval Roman Catholic Church, through doctrinal manipulation, the exclusion of rivals, and various forms of price discrimination, ultimately placed members seeking the Z good "spiritual services" on the margin of defection. These monopolistic practices encouraged entry by rival firms, some of which were aligned with civil gove…
Retrospectives
This feature addresses the history of economic words and ideas. The hope is to deepen the workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing questions. If you have suggestions for future topics or authors, please write to Joseph Persky, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics (M/C 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Room 2103, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121. Until rec…
Joint Supply and the Development of Economic Theory
Research Article| September 01 2001 Joint Supply and the Development of Economic Theory: A Historical Perspective Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google John Thompson John Thompson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (3): 577–608. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-33-3-577 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
TheEconomistDupuit on Theory, Institutions, and Policy
Research Article| March 01 2000 The Economist Dupuit on Theory, Institutions, and Policy: First of the Moderns? Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert B. Ekelund; The Economist Dupuit on Th…
Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice
Book Review| June 01 2000 Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice Edited by S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon. Leiden: Brill, 1998. 611 pp. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (2): 404–405. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-2-404 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Si…
Public policy, perverse incentives, and the homeless problem
A.M. Endres, Neoclassical microeconomic theory
The Dupuit–Marshall Theory of Competitive Equilibrium
Working with the classical expressions of demand, supply and market adjustments, the French engineer Jules Dupuit developed a model of competitive market adjustments in different time dimensions that anticipated Marshall’s ‘period analysis’ on all important points. Dupuit’s attempt to handle the complexity of economic phenomena in a scientific fashion, by utilizing the ceteris paribus method, and the integration of this method with the ‘facts’ of…
An Exploration of the Beckerian Theory of Time Costs
The passage of time has long been known to have economic effects The most important effect in the arts has heretofore been the so-called "cost disease" whereby productivity in manufacturing and even service activities outstrips those in cultural pursuits notably the performance arts Naturally, a positive income effect on demand would tend to mitigate this supply effect. This paper posits yet another side to wage and income increases - the Beckeri…
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
The medieval church and rents from marriage market regulations
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation
This paper seeks to explain the initial successes and failures of Protestantism on economic grounds. It argues that the medieval Roman Catholic Church, through doctrinal manipulation, the exclusion of rivals, and various forms of price discrimination, ultimately placed members seeking the Z good "spiritual services" on the margin of defection. These monopolistic practices encouraged entry by rival firms, some of which were aligned with civil gove…
Secularism, Religion, and Political Choice in the United States
The effect of religion on political behavior and attachment has been a topic of intense interest in the United States and elsewhere. Less attention has been paid to the issue of secularism. Some analysts have viewed secularism as anabsenceof religious attachment, and a number of studies have utilized indices of secularization to analyze such topics as economic development or modernization. In this article, we show that secularism, like religion, …
Jules Dupuit and the Early Theory of Marginal Cost Pricing
French Engineers, Welfare Economics, and Public Finance in the Nineteenth Century
Division of labor, in research as well as in teaching, has produced, in economics as elsewhere, an indefinite number of specialities that are usually described as "applied fields." ... These fields may accumulate "private" stocks of facts and methods that are of little or no use outside their boundaries. Beyond this, however, they have repeatedly developed accumulations of facts and conceptual schemata that should be recorded as contributions to …
Retrospectives
This feature addresses the history of economic words and ideas. The hope is to deepen the workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing questions. If you have suggestions for future topics or authors, please write to Joseph Persky, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics (M/C 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Room 2103, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121. Until rec…
The medieval church and rents from marriage market regulations
Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion
Disequilibrium Theory and Thornton's Assault on the Laws of Supply and Demand
disequilibrium theory, William Thornton, law of supply, law of demand
Consumer Surplus
Research Article| September 01 1985 Consumer Surplus: The First Hundred Years Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert F. Hébert Robert F. Hébert 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 419–454. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-3-419 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…
Art Museum Attendance, Public Funding, and the Business Cycle
There are a number of important problems in contemporary museum finance, and this article identifies yet another possible difficulty. An aggregate statistical measure of museum attendance is calculated in this research and the attendance measure is shown to be countercyclical in nature. When set against federal and other allocations to museums, which are clearly pro-cyclical in nature, an attendance "disease" may be at least tentatively identifie…
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure
Research Article| November 01 2005 Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert F. Hébert; Robert F. Hébert Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert D. Tollison Robert D. Tollison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 647–660. https://doi.org/10.12…
Cournot's Demand Theory
Cournot, demand theory
Rent seeking as an evolving process
J. S. Mill on the Income Tax Exemption and Inheritance Taxes
J. S. Mill, income tax exemption, inheritance tax
Dupuit and Marginal Utility
Robert Ekelund is Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. Robert Hebert is Associate Professor of Economics at Auburn University
Economic empiricism in the writing of early railway engineers
Interest groups, public choice and the economics of religion
Public policy, perverse incentives, and the homeless problem
An Exploration of the Beckerian Theory of Time Costs
The passage of time has long been known to have economic effects The most important effect in the arts has heretofore been the so-called "cost disease" whereby productivity in manufacturing and even service activities outstrips those in cultural pursuits notably the performance arts Naturally, a positive income effect on demand would tend to mitigate this supply effect. This paper posits yet another side to wage and income increases - the Beckeri…
Geometric Analogies and Market Demand Estimation
Research Article| September 01 1991 Geometric Analogies and Market Demand Estimation: Dupuit and the French Contribution Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Thornton Mark Thornton 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 397–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-3-397 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Habits in economic analysis
Research Article| September 01 1988 Habits in economic analysis: Veblen and the neoclassicals Richard W. Ault; Richard W. Ault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (3): 431–445. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-20-3-431 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio S…
A. T. Hadley
Sir Edwin Chadwick on Competition and the Social Control of Industry
Research Article| June 01 1979 Sir Edwin Chadwick on Competition and the Social Control of Industry: Railroads Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Edward O. Price, III Edward O. Price, III Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (2): 213–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11-2-213 Cite Icon Cite S…
Desperation votes and private interests
David M. Levy, How the Dismal Science Got its Name
Jules Dupuit and the Early Theory of Marginal Cost Pricing
Tax Reform in Latin America
Power and Utility
Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser of the great Austrian triumvirate of economic theorists is well known as one of the founders, along with Carl Menger and Eugen von B?hm-Bawerk, of Austrian subjective value theory. Wieser's scientific contributions, epitomized in his Natural Value,1 were extensions, albeit original extensions, of Menger's seminal Principles of Economics. Most importantly, Wieser restated the theory of marginal utility {Grenznutzen wa…
Cournot's Demand Theory
Cournot, demand theory
Economic empiricism in the writing of early railway engineers
Professor Stigler on Dupuit and the Development of Utility Theory
Dupuit and Marginal Utility
Robert Ekelund is Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. Robert Hebert is Associate Professor of Economics at Auburn University
John A. Hobson and the Theory of Discriminating Monopoly
John A. Hobson, theory of discriminating monopoly
The Fragile Nature of Public Goods Equilibria
French Engineers, Welfare Economics, and Public Finance in the Nineteenth Century
Division of labor, in research as well as in teaching, has produced, in economics as elsewhere, an indefinite number of specialities that are usually described as "applied fields." ... These fields may accumulate "private" stocks of facts and methods that are of little or no use outside their boundaries. Beyond this, however, they have repeatedly developed accumulations of facts and conceptual schemata that should be recorded as contributions to …
The Passions and the Interests
Sir Edwin Chadwick on Competition and the Social Control of Industry
Research Article| June 01 1979 Sir Edwin Chadwick on Competition and the Social Control of Industry: Railroads Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Edward O. Price, III Edward O. Price, III Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1979) 11 (2): 213–239. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-11-2-213 Cite Icon Cite S…
A. T. Hadley on Monopoly Theory and Railway Regulation
A. T. Haldey, monopoly, railway regulation, America
A note on politics and franchise bidding
A. T. Hadley
The Politics and Philosophy of Economics
Consumer Surplus
Research Article| September 01 1985 Consumer Surplus: The First Hundred Years Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert F. Hébert Robert F. Hébert 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (3): 419–454. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-3-419 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary…
Wieser and the Austrian connection to social economics
Dupuit, Spatial Economics and Optimal Resource Allocation
This paper uncovers and develops nineteenth-century engineer Jules Dupuit's pivotal role in the independent French tradition in spatial economic analysis. Dupuit's invention of market area studies and (approximately first-degree) spatial price discrimination is illustrated with a simple mathematical model. Next, Dupuit's conception of optimal toll structures and their relation to efficient transport systems, regulation, and economic welfare is an…
Schumpeterian Analysis, Supply-Side Economics And Macroeconomic Policy In The 1920S
Economists who are passionately determined not to admit that policies answering to their social and moral vision, particularly fiscal policies of anticapitalist tendency, can possibly interfere with the working of the economic system, will no doubt hold that there was mere chance coincidence between that sociopolitical pattern and the economic results achieved in this country during the twenties, and between the different setup and the different …
Habits in economic analysis
Research Article| September 01 1988 Habits in economic analysis: Veblen and the neoclassicals Richard W. Ault; Richard W. Ault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (3): 431–445. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-20-3-431 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio S…
Nassau Senior as Economic Consultant
The role of N. W. Senior in nineteenth-century factory legislation has been given only incomplete treatment. This paper employs a broader reading of Senior's views and shows that Senior provided a clear understanding of the interest group pressures behind Factory Act legislation. Within a dynamic analysis of these forces, moreover, some support is developed for Senior's "last hour" theory as a correct interpretation of a regulation that reduced e…
Disequilibrium Theory and Thornton's Assault on the Laws of Supply and Demand
disequilibrium theory, William Thornton, law of supply, law of demand
Geometric Analogies and Market Demand Estimation
Research Article| September 01 1991 Geometric Analogies and Market Demand Estimation: Dupuit and the French Contribution Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mark Thornton Mark Thornton 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 397–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-23-3-397 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceboo…
Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion
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