●Ray Fisman, “Virtue for Sale；Will customers pay more to do good？”（Slate, October 19, 2007） And so it's worth asking, does it pay for corporations to be nice?This is the question animating a recent study (yet to be published) by Harvar…

●Jerome Blanc（1998）, “Free Money for Social Progress: Theory and Practice of Gesell's Accelerated Money”（American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol.57(4), pp. 469-483） Hoarding then becomes the cause of economic crisis, and the n…

●Stephen F. LeRoy and Larry D. Singell, Jr.（1987）, “Knight on Risk and Uncertainty”（Journal of Political Economy, vol.95(2), pp.394-406）●Richard N. Langlois and Metin M. Cosgel（1993）, “Frank Knight on Risk, Uncertainty, and the Firm:…

Hicksianさんが紹介した例でも、行動経済学からの説明が試みられているものの、田中先生が提起された論点（「自尊心」という単なる利益では計れないインセンティブ！）などを検証するには、実際に生活保護を受けている人を調査するしかないだろう。 インセン…

●Scott Beaulier and Bryan Caplan, “Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State（doc）” Abstract: Critics often argue that government poverty programs perversely make the poor worse off by encouraging unemployment, out-of…

●Dan Ariely and Michael Norton, “Belichik, a bad apple?”（Predictably Irrational, September 3, 2008） It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desir…

●Jeffrey A. Frankel, “Supply-Side Economics Contradictions Live on in Washington”（Jeff Frankels Weblog, September 9, 2008） Politicians have always faced the temptation to give their constituents tax cuts. But in recent decades “conservat…

●Peter Klein, “Tullock on Corporations”（Organizations and Markets, August 27, 2008） バーリ＝ミーンズが主張するように経営者が企業を好き勝手に操ることができるだけの力を持っているとしたら株主の不平不満なんかどこ吹く風で彼は経営者の地位に長…

●Michael Munger, “Rent-Seek and You Will Find”（Library of Economics and Liberty, July 3, 2006） In a well-functioning market system, competition rewards low price and high quality. Such optimal functioning requires either large numbers of…

●David Beckworth, “Is Monetary Policy Really Too Loose?”（Macro and Other Market Musings, September 5, 2008） 金融政策のスタンス（＝緩和し過ぎか/引き締め過ぎかどうか）は（実質で見た）政策金利の水準のみから判断すべきではなく、あくまで均衡実…

●Tyler Cowen（2002）, “Does the Welfare State Help the Poor?（doc）”（Social Philosophy and Policy, vol.19(1), pp.36-54） I look first at how much the welfare state transfers to the poor, which turns out to be a surprisingly small sum, rel…

●Michael Huemer, “Why People Are Irrational about Politics” Abstract； I look for explanations for the phenomenon of widespread, strong, and persistent disagreements about political issues. The best explanation is provided by the hypothesi…

●Barry Naughton, “The Inflation Battle: Juggling Three Swords”（China Leadership Monitor, No. 25, Summer, 2008） Inflation has once again become a serious problem in China. The government has three potential weapons to fight inflation: tig…

●Barry Eichengreen, “Back to the ‘Thirties with a Twist”（VOX, August 30, 2008） One of the chief ways financial market participants make sense of events is by drawing parallels with the past. The subprime crisis, when it first erupted, wa…