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The Economics of Misbehavior, Love, and Marriage Contract Enforcement
(1989-02)
Individuals allocate time between production of goods shared by family members and goods consumed only by the individual. Individuals are inclined to misbehave by giving less time to production of shared goods than is ...
A Preliminary Time Series Analysis of Church Activity in Colonial Woodbury, Connecticut
(Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1989-12)
We examine a small part of the substantial detailed data on church activity for colonial Woodbury, Connecticut. Time series regression analysis suggests that religious activity in Woodbury, as reflected in new church ...
Religion, Afterlife, and Property Rights in the High Middle Ages
(University of South Carolina, 1989)
Religion serves a number of important functions, one of which is to provide an alternative to the state and to the local community in enforcing particular social behavior. As the nature of the state's power, of the influence ...
An OPEC in Fantasyland? The NAB Television Code as Cartel (revised)
(1986-10)
The U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that its Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. Had the case, which was settled by consent decree in ...
An Economics Perspective Ten Years After the NAB Case
(1989-01)
The U.S. Justice Department brought suit against the National Association of Broadcasters in 1979, charging that the NAB Television Code restricted the supply of advertising. This paper examines implications of a collusive ...
Again Greene: The Economics of the NAB Case
(1986-10-05)
Commonly in antitrust cases against trade associations, the courts have made decisions based on a rule of reason, evaluating the harm caused by the association rather than proscribing per se a given activity. Had Judge ...
Has the Wedding Between Economics and Anthropology Been Cancelled? Economic Theory and Polygamy
(1989-01)
This paper uses data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of the Human Relations Area Files to test implications of family economic theory related to multiple marriage. As the theory predicts, actions which interfere ...