Frequently Asked Past Papers

“Class Power and Alienated Labor.” Monthly Review 26, no. 10 (1975): 9-25. [with Herbert Gintis]

Schooling in Capitalist America RevisitedSociology of Education 75(1) (2002): 1-18. [with Herbert Gintis]

‘Social Capital’ and Community GovernanceEconomic Journal 112 (2002): 419-436. [with Herbert Gintis]

The Inheritance of InequalityJournal of Economic Perspectives 16 (3) (2002): 3-30. [with Herbert Gintis]

Costly Signaling and CooperationJournal of Theoretical Biology 213 (2001): 103-119. [with Herbert Gintis, Eric Alden Smith].

Cooperation, Reciprocity and Punishment in Fifteen Small-scale SocietiesAmerican Economic Review 91(2) (2001): 73-78. [with R. Boyd, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis, J Henrich, and R. McElreath]. (Santa Fe Institute Working Paper #01-01-007).

The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral ApproachJournal of Economic Literature 34 (2001). [with Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne]

Incentive-Enhancing Preferences; Personality, Behavior, and Earnings.American Economic Review91(2), 155-158 (2001). [with Herbert Gintis and Melisssa Osborne]

In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale SocietiesAmerican Economic Review91(2), 73-78 (2001). [with Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis and Richard McElreath]

Walrasian Economics in RetrospectQuarterly Journal of Economics (2000). [with Herbert Gintis]

Wealth Inequality, Wealth Constraints and Economic Performance.Handbook of income distribution1, 541-603 December 6, 1999. [with Pranab Bardhan and Herbert Gintis].

Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic InstitutionsJournal of Economic Literature 36 (1998): 75-111.

The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political EconomyJournal of Economic Perspectives 7(1) (1993): 83-102. [with Herbert Gintis]

A Polittical and Economic Case for the Democratic EnterpriseEconomics 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 GrantEuropean Journal of Political Economy 8 (1992): 557-578.

Power and Wealth in a Competitive Capitalist EconomyPhilosophy and Public Affairs21(4) (1992): 324-353. [with Herbert Gintis]

Business Ascendancy and Economic Impasse: A Structural Retrospective on Conservative Economics, 1979-1987Journal of Economic Perspectives 3(1) (1989): 107-134. [with David M. Gordon, Thomas E. Weisskopf]

Contested Exchange: Political Economy and Modern Economic TheoryAmerican Economic Review 78(2) (1988): 145-150. [with Herbert Gintis]

Labor Discipline and Aggregate Demand: A Macroeconomic ModelAmerican Economic Review 78(2) (1988): 395-400. [with Robert Boyer]

Employment Rents and the Incidence of StrikesThe Review of Economics and Statistics 69(4) (1987): 584-592. [with Juliet B. Schor]

The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: ReplyThe American Economic Review 76(5) (1986): 1203-1204.

The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Non-Hobbesian, and Marxian ModelsAmerican Economic Review 75(1) (1985): 16-36.

Hearts and Minds: A Social Model of U.S. Productivity GrowthBrookings 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 ApproachesThe American Economic Review 72(2) (1982): 341-345. [with Herbert Gintis]

NOTE: 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 StructureWorld Development 6 (1978): 783-796.

The Problem with Human Capital Theory: A Marxian CritiqueThe 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 GenerationJournal of Political Economy83(3) (1972): S219-S251.

Migration as Investment: Empirical Tests of the Human Investment Approach to Geographical MobilityReview 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 FunctionJournal of Political Economy 78(1) (1970): 68-81.

The Determinants of Scholatic Achievement: An Appraisal of Some Recent Evidence.Journal of Human Resource 3(1) (1968): 3-24.

The Efficient Allocation of Resources in EducationThe Quarterly Journal of Economics81(2) (1967): 189-219.