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The Exchange Order: Property And Liability As An Economic System, Richard Adelstein Aug 2017

The Exchange Order: Property And Liability As An Economic System, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

The Introduction ("Governing Exchange") to The Exchange Order: Property and Liability as an Economic System, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017.


Short Vitae 5.16.Pdf, Richard Adelstein May 2016

Short Vitae 5.16.Pdf, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

No abstract provided.


The Last Autonomist, Richard Adelstein Dec 2015

The Last Autonomist, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

Louis Brandeis was the greatest opponent of industrial "bigness," but not the first. After a brief introduction to his life and intellectual commitment to small scale and decentralization of authority in both production and government, this essay considers Brandeis's ideas about policy toward large firms in the context of the controversy in the United States Supreme Court over the interpretation of the Sherman Act between 1890 and 1911. Opponents of bigness ("autonomists") on the Court believed that allowing the market to determine the size of firms made firms too large and supported direct controls on growth, and opposed the common …


Firms As Persons, Richard Adelstein Dec 2013

Firms As Persons, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An argument that firms, understood as contracts in performance, should not be granted constitutional or human rights, but should be subject to legal responsibility.


States Without Romance, Richard Adelstein Dec 2011

States Without Romance, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A short appreciation of Buchanan and Tullock's The Calculus of Consent (1962).


Firms As Social Actors, Richard Adelstein Dec 2009

Firms As Social Actors, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A close look at what firms are and how they act.


Organizations And Economics, Richard Adelstein Dec 2009

Organizations And Economics, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A contribution to a symposium on a paper by Richard Posner.


Progressive Era, Richard Adelstein Dec 2007

Progressive Era, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A short interpretive summary of the period 1890 - 1914.


Economics Of Plea Bargaining, Richard Adelstein Dec 2006

Economics Of Plea Bargaining, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A short summary of earlier work for a sociological audience.


An Economic Model Of Fair Use (With Thomas Miceli), Richard Adelstein Dec 2005

An Economic Model Of Fair Use (With Thomas Miceli), Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A formal model of the law of fair use.


Knowledge And Power In The Mechanical Firm: Planning For Profit In Austrian Perspective, Richard Adelstein Dec 2004

Knowledge And Power In The Mechanical Firm: Planning For Profit In Austrian Perspective, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A theory of central planning employing Austrian themes and applied to private firms and Taylorism.


Equity And Efficiency In Markets For Ideas, Richard Adelstein Dec 2001

Equity And Efficiency In Markets For Ideas, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

Intellectual property and patent protection in light of the AIDS crisis in Africa.


Toward A Comparative Economics Of Plea Bargaining (With Thomas Miceli), Richard Adelstein Dec 2000

Toward A Comparative Economics Of Plea Bargaining (With Thomas Miceli), Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A comparison of adversarial and inquisitorial approaches to criminal adjudication and its implications for plea bargaining.


Victims As Cost Bearers, Richard Adelstein Dec 1998

Victims As Cost Bearers, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A brief recasting of the price exaction model.


The Origins Of Property And The Powers Of Government, Richard Adelstein Dec 1998

The Origins Of Property And The Powers Of Government, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

The alternating influence of Locke and Bentham in American constitutional law.


Four Entries, Richard Adelstein Dec 1997

Four Entries, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

Four entries: "American Institutional Economics and the Legal System" (I: 61-66); "John Rogers Commons" (I: 324-327); Richard Theodore Ely" (II: 28-29); and "Plea Bargaining: A Comparative Approach"


Language Orders, Richard Adelstein Dec 1995

Language Orders, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An examination of the alternatives of spontaneous order and central planning in the context of human language.


Charles E. Lindblom, Richard Adelstein Dec 1991

Charles E. Lindblom, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An intellectual biography and review of the work of Charles E. Lindblom.


Continuity And Change Redux: Market And State In American History, Richard Adelstein Dec 1991

Continuity And Change Redux: Market And State In American History, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A review of Jonathan Hughes, The Government Habit Redux (1991).


"The Nation As An Economic Unit:" Keynes, Roosevelt, And The Managerial Ideal, Richard Adelstein Dec 1990

"The Nation As An Economic Unit:" Keynes, Roosevelt, And The Managerial Ideal, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

The First New Deal as central economic planning, and the lost opportunity to reconstruct the federal government toward peaceful Keynesianism.


Deciding For Bigness, Richard Adelstein Dec 1990

Deciding For Bigness, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

Antitrust as a constitutional constraint on the growth of firms.


Islands Of Conscious Power: Louis D. Brandeis And The Modern Corporation, Richard Adelstein Dec 1988

Islands Of Conscious Power: Louis D. Brandeis And The Modern Corporation, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An intellectual portrait of Louis Brandeis and the contradictions in his philosophy and public life.


Mind And Hand: Economics And Engineering At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Richard Adelstein Dec 1987

Mind And Hand: Economics And Engineering At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

The role of political economy in the curriculum of MIT, with special attention to the thought of Francis Amasa Walker.


The Competition Of Technologies In Markets For Ideas: Copyright And Fair Use In Evolutionary Perspective (With Steven Peretz), Richard Adelstein Dec 1984

The Competition Of Technologies In Markets For Ideas: Copyright And Fair Use In Evolutionary Perspective (With Steven Peretz), Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A theory of intellectual goods as distinct from public or private goods, and the rationale for copyright that flows from it.


The Plea Bargain In England And America: A Comparative Institutional Approach, Richard Adelstein Dec 1980

The Plea Bargain In England And America: A Comparative Institutional Approach, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A comparative view of adjudication by guilty plea in the US and the UK.


Institutional Function And Evolution In The Criminal Process, Richard Adelstein Dec 1980

Institutional Function And Evolution In The Criminal Process, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An extended development of the foundations of the price exaction model of the criminal process.


The Moral Costs Of Crime: Prices, Information And Organization, Richard Adelstein Dec 1978

The Moral Costs Of Crime: Prices, Information And Organization, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

More on price exaction, and punishments as conveyors of cost information in the criminal process.


Informational Paradox And The Pricing Of Crime: Capital Sentencing Standards In Economic Perspective, Richard Adelstein Dec 1978

Informational Paradox And The Pricing Of Crime: Capital Sentencing Standards In Economic Perspective, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

A further development of the price exaction model and an application to the problem of sentencing standards.


The Negotiated Guilty Plea: A Framework For Analysis, Richard Adelstein Dec 1977

The Negotiated Guilty Plea: A Framework For Analysis, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An early exposition of the price exaction framework and the place of plea bargaining in it.


The Plea Bargain In Theory Dec 1977

The Plea Bargain In Theory

Richard Adelstein

A formal dynamic model of plea bargains.