“Class Power and Alienated Labor.” Monthly Review 26, no. 10 (1975): 9-25. [with Herbert Gintis]
“Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited.” Sociology of Education 75(1) (2002): 1-18. [with Herbert Gintis]
“‘Social Capital’ and Community Governance.” Economic Journal 112 (2002): 419-436. [with Herbert Gintis]
“The Inheritance of Inequality.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 16 (3) (2002): 3-30. [with Herbert Gintis]
“Costly Signaling and Cooperation.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 213 (2001): 103-119. [with Herbert Gintis, Eric Alden Smith].
“The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach.” Journal of Economic Literature 34 (2001). [with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne]
“Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings.” American Economic Review, 91(2), 155-158 (2001). [with Herbert Gintis and Melisssa Osborne]
“In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies.” American Economic Review, 91(2), 73-78 (2001). [with Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis and Richard McElreath]
“Walrasian Economics in Retrospect.” Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000). [with Herbert Gintis]
“Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance.“ Handbook of income distribution, 1, 541-603 December 6, 1999. [with Pranab Bardhan and Herbert Gintis].
“Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions.” Journal of Economic Literature 36 (1998): 75-111.
“The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 7(1) (1993): 83-102. [with Herbert Gintis]
“A Political and Economic Case for the Democratic Enterprise.” Economics and Philosophy 9 (1993): 75-100. [with Herbert Gintis]
“Is Income Security Possible in a Capitalist Economy?: An Agency Theoretic Analysis of an Unconditional Income Grant.” European Journal of Political Economy 8 (1992): 557-578.
“Power and Wealth in a Competitive Capitalist Economy.” Philosophy and Public Affairs21(4) (1992): 324-353. [with Herbert Gintis]
“Business Ascendancy and Economic Impasse: A Structural Retrospective on Conservative Economics, 1979-1987.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 3(1) (1989): 107-134. [with David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf]
“Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic Theory.” American Economic Review 78(2) (1988): 145-150. [with Herbert Gintis]
“Labor Discipline and Aggregate Demand: A Macroeconomic Model.” American Economic Review 78(2) (1988): 395-400. [with Robert Boyer]
“Employment Rents and the Incidence of Strikes.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 69(4) (1987): 584-592. [with Juliet B. Schor]
“The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Reply.” The American Economic Review 76(5) (1986): 1203-1204.
“The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Non-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models.” American Economic Review 75(1) (1985): 16-36.
“Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of U.S. Productivity Growth.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1983(2) (1983): 381-441. [with Thomas E. Weisskopf, David M. Gordon]
“The Welfare State and Long-Term Economic Growth: Marxian, Neoclassical, and Keynesian Approaches.” The American Economic Review 72(2) (1982): 341-345. [with Herbert Gintis]
“Technical Change and the Profit Rate: A Simple Proof of the Okishio Theorem.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 5 (1981): 183-186.
“Capitalist Development and Educational Structure.” World Development 6 (1978): 783-796.
“The Problem with Human Capital Theory: A Marxian Critique.” The American Economic Review 65(2) (1975): 74-82.
“The ‘Inheritance of IQ’ and the Intergenerational Reproduction of Economic Inequality.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 56 (1974): 39-51.
“Schooling and Inequality from Generation to Generation.” Journal of Political Economy 83(3) (1972): S219-S251.
“Migration as Investment: Empirical Tests of the Human Investment Approach to Geographical Mobility.” Review of Economics and Statistics 52(4) (1970): 356-362.
“Aggregation of Labor Inputs in the Economics of Growth and Planning: Experiments with a Two-Level CES Function.” Journal of Political Economy 78(1) (1970): 68-81.
“The Determinants of Scholastic Achievement: An Appraisal of Some Recent Evidence.” Journal of Human Resource 3(1) (1968): 3-24.
“The Efficient Allocation of Resources in Education.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics81(2) (1967): 189-219.