EXPLAINING JAPAN’S RECESSION (2008)
After decades of “miracle ” economic growth since World War II, Japan’s economy abruptly faltered in 1990 and has stagnated since. I examine the Japanese government’s antirecession policies,...
www.mises.org DO PESSIMISTIC ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR JUSTIFY GOVERNMENT? (2008)
Benjamin Powell, Christopher Coyne
Is government a necessary institution? 1 To answer this question, many theorists begin with an account of a state of nature in which there are no “rules ” or institutions to regulate human...
Tang, Zhi, Powell, Benjamin, Marino, Louis, Tang, Jintong, Dickson, Pat
In seeking to exploit environmental resources and opportunities, CEOs can either set multiple goals or narrow their focus on a few targets for the organizations. What approach will help organizations...
Yusuf, Eddy, Powell, Benjamin, McKenzie, Ross H.
We give a quantitative analysis of the previously published nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments in the kappa-(ET)(2)X family of organic charge-transfer salts. The temperature dependence of...
Yusuf, Eddy, Powell, Benjamin, McKenzie, Ross H.
We give a quantitative analysis of the previously published nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments in the kappa-(ET)(2)X family of organic charge-transfer salts. The temperature dependence of...
In Reply To Sweatshop Sophistries (2006)
Human Rights Quarterly - Volume 28, Number 4, November 2006
An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles ∗ (2006)
Benjamin Powell, Bart J. Wilson, Benjamin Powell, Bart J. Wilson
are our own.
Edited Arie, Y. Lewin, Henk W. Volberda, Benjamin Powell, Johannes Pennings
1 If co-evolutionary theory is to combine both intentionality and environmental effects, then it must also acknowledge that managers are able to perceive and respond to changes in their organizations...
The history and development of the word sycophant [microform] / (1896)
Thesis (A. B.)--Cornell University, 1896.
Document ID: sc147
Document ID: sc147
Competition and Monopoly Power in Local Government: An Extension of Caplan (2001)
Caplan (2001) shows that because land is a source of immobile wealth, local governments can use the property tax to avoid competitive pressures of the Tiebout model, allowing them to deviate from...
State Development Planning: Did it Create an East Asian Miracle?
East Asian countries have recorded large increases in per capita GDP over the last fifty years. Some observers have referred to this growth as an “East Asian Miracle.” One popular explanation...
Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?
BENJAMIN POWELL, DAVID SKARBEK
Many studies have shown that multinational firms pay more than domestic firms in Third World countries. Economists who criticize sweatshops have responded that multinational firms' wage data do not...
Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth
Heckelman, Jac C., Powell, Benjamin
Several cross-country studies have found that corruption is detrimental to economic growth, but the findings are not universally robust. We utilize the economic freedom index to examine if corruption...
Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy: A Survey
Powell, Benjamin, Stringham, Edward P.
Public choice economists began studying the economics of anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of research on anarchy has burgeoned. This article surveys the important public choice...
An experimental investigation of Hobbesian jungles
Powell, Benjamin, Wilson, Bart J.
Hobbes's state of nature serves as the analytical starting point for much of what economists have written on anarchy and the formation of government. Unfortunately little historical evidence exists...
Scaffold-based discovery of indeglitazar, a PPAR pan-active anti-diabetic agent
Artis, Dean R., Lin, Jack J., Zhang, Chao, Wang, Weiru, Mehra, Upasana, Perreault, Mylene, ...
In a search for more effective anti-diabetic treatment, we used a process coupling low-affinity biochemical screening with high-throughput co-crystallography in the design of a series of compounds...
Public choice and the economic analysis of anarchy: a survey
Benjamin Powell, Edward Stringham
Anarchism, Lawlessness, Order, Internalization of externalities, Self-governance, D74, H11, K42,