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Harold Demsetz

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#141

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#185

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#100

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According to Wikipedia, Harold Demsetz was an American professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles . Career Demsetz grew up on the West Side of Chicago, the grandchild of Jewish immigrants from central and eastern Europe. He studied engineering, forestry, and philosophy at four universities before being awarded a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois, and an MBA and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. While a graduate student, he published an article each in Econometrica and the Journal of Political Economy.

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Harold Demsetz's Published Works

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Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization (1975) (10285)
The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences (1985) (6489)
Toward a Theory of Property Rights (1967) (4322)
The Structure of Ownership and the Theory of the Firm (1983) (2410)
Industry Structure, Market Rivalry, and Public Policy (1973) (2404)
Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance (2001) (2363)
The Cost of Transacting (1968) (1967)
The Theory of the Firm Revisited (1988) (1384)
Why Regulate Utilities (1968) (1291)
Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint. (1969) (1148)
The Property Right Paradigm (1973) (1136)
The Exchange and Enforcement of Property Rights (1964) (546)
Barriers to Entry (1981) (388)
Growth of Government (1979) (221)
Some Aspects of Property Rights (1966) (220)
The Private Production of Public Goods (1970) (213)
Corporate Control, Insider Trading, and Rates of Return (1986) (213)
The economics of the business firm : seven critical commentaries (1995) (212)
Toward a Theory of Property Rights II: The Competition between Private and Collective Ownership (2002) (187)
Ownership, control, and the firm (1988) (177)
When Does the Rule of Liability Matter? (1972) (175)
Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint (1969) (134)
Economic, legal, and political dimensions of competition (1982) (117)
The Firm in Economic Theory: A Quiet Revolution (1997) (116)
Why Regulate Utilities? (1968) (84)
The economics of the business firm (1995) (63)
Accounting for Advertising as a Barrier to Entry (1979) (62)
The Nature of Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition (1959) (50)
Economics as a Guide to Antitrust Regulation (1976) (45)
The Primacy of Economics: An Explanation of the Comparative Success of Economics in the Social Sciences (1997) (44)
The Problem of Social Cost: What Problem? A Critique of the Reasoning of A.C. Pigou and R.H. Coase (2011) (42)
The economic nature of the firm: Production, information costs, and economic organization (2009) (36)
The welfare and empirical implications of monopolistic competition (1964) (35)
Do Competition and Monopolistic Competition Differ? (1968) (35)
Limit orders and the alleged Nasdaq collusion (1997) (35)
The core disagreement between Pigou, the profession, and Coase in the analyses of the externality question (1996) (35)
Efficiency, competition, and policy (1989) (34)
From economic man to economic system : essays on human behavior and the institutions of capitalism (2008) (33)
Wealth Distribution and the Ownership of Rights (1972) (31)
The Effect of Consumer Experience on Brand Loyalty and the Structure of Market Demand (1962) (29)
On the Regulation of Industry: A Reply (1971) (29)
Rationality, Evolution, and Acquisitiveness (1996) (29)
Joint Supply and Price Discrimination (1973) (28)
George J. Stigler: Midcentury Neoclassicalist with a Passion to Quantify (1993) (23)
Dogs and tails in the economic development story (2000) (23)
The Emerging Theory of Firm (1992) (21)
Book Reviews (1998) (21)
Frischmann's View of "Toward a Theory of Property Rights" (2008) (19)
Where is the New Industrial State (1974) (19)
Block's erroneous interpretations (1997) (18)
THEORETICAL EFFICIENCY IN POLLUTION CONTROL: COMMENT ON COMMENTS (1971) (16)
The Inconsistencies in Monopolistic Competition: A Reply (1972) (15)
The market concentration doctrine;: An examination of evidence and a discussion of policy (1973) (14)
R. H. Coase and the Neoclassical Model of the Economic System (2011) (14)
How Many Cheers for Antitrust''s 100 Years?" 30 Economic Inquiry (1992) (13)
Creativity and the Economics of the Copyright Controversy (2009) (12)
From economic man to economic system (2008) (11)
On Extortion: A Reply (1978) (9)
Ownership and Control: A Review (1996) (9)
Perspectives on Positive Political Economy: Amenity potential, indivisibilities, and political competition (1990) (8)
Seemingly altruistic behavior: selfish genes or cooperative organisms? (2009) (6)
Professor Michelman's Unnecessary and Futile Search for the Philosopher's Touchstone (1981) (6)
Economic Gains From Storm Warnings: Two Florida Case Studies (1962) (5)
The Technostructure, Forty-Six Years Later (1968) (5)
Welfare Across The Generations (1996) (5)
More on Collusion and Advertising: A Reply (1976) (5)
Supreme Court Economic Review (1995) (5)
Monopolistic Competition: A Reply (1967) (5)
IN CELEBRATION OF ARMEN ALCHIAN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY: LIVING AND BREATHING ECONOMICS (1996) (5)
The economics of the business firm: Seventh commentary: The intensity and dimensionality of competition (1995) (5)
The Organization of Economic Activity. Vol. I: Ownership, Control and the Firm. (1989) (5)
Economics in the Industrial State: Science and Sedative: Discussion (1970) (4)
The economics of the business firm: Second commentary: Agency and nonagency explanations of the firm's organization (1995) (4)
The economics of the business firm: Fifth commentary: The use and abuse of accounting profit data (1995) (4)
Succeeding in Economics (2008) (4)
The Organization of Economic Activity, Volume I: Ownership, Control, and the Firm (1990) (4)
Comment on “The organization of economic activity” (1991) (4)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. OWNERSHIP AND THE EXTERNALITY PROBLEM (2003) (3)
Structural Unemployment: A Reconsideration of the Evidence and the Theory (1961) (3)
Reply to Professor Thompson (1973) (3)
The private production of public goods, once again (1993) (3)
Financial regulation and the competitiveness of the large U.S. corporation (1993) (2)
Professor Jack Hirshleifer (1925–2005): A Life Remembered (2005) (2)
The economics of the business firm: First commentary: The firm of theory: its definition and existence (1995) (2)
Theories of the firm : their contrasts and implications ; The theory of stock spreads revisited (1997) (2)
On Thinking Like an Economist (1975) (2)
Henry Manne: Scholar, Academic Entrepreneur, and Friend (1999) (2)
Commentary on Liability Rules and the Derivative Suit in Corporate Law (1986) (2)
The economics of the business firm: Sixth commentary: Management compensation and tournament theory (1995) (2)
The Securities Markets: Operations and Issues (1966) (1)
The 1982 nobel prize in economics. (1982) (1)
From Economic Man to Economic System: On Self-Interest (2008) (1)
Efficiency wage models of unemployment: one view (2002) (1)
The Private Production of Public Goods: Reply (1973) (1)
The economics of the business firm: Preface (1995) (1)
From Economic Man to Economic System: OWNERSHIP AND EXCHANGE (2008) (0)
The Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 5 (1997) (0)
Review of The Securities Markets, Operations and Issues by Sidney Robbins (1967) (0)
Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 6 (1998) (0)
Some Comments on "Brand Loyalty": Reply (1963) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: INTRODUCTION: ABOUT THESE ESSAYS (2008) (0)
Preface to Volume 3 (1993) (0)
THE LATE ARRIVAL OF CAPITALISM (2008) (0)
Third commentary: Enterprise control, wealth, and economic development (1995) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: ECONOMIC MAN'S ESCAPE FROM MALTHUS'S POPULATION TRAP (2008) (0)
Capitalism and Its Institutions (2008) (0)
THE INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC POLICY ON THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF FIRMS by (1999) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: PROTECTING YOU FROM YOURSELF (2008) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: THE CONTRAST BETWEEN FIRMS AND POLITICAL PARTIES (2008) (0)
FIRMS AND HOUSEHOLDS AS SUBSTITUTES (2008) (0)
Book Review:Economics of the Property Tax. Dick Netzer (1967) (0)
Eminent Economists II: Succeeding in Economics (2014) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: THE PUBLIC CORPORATION: ITS OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL (2008) (0)
Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of the Petitioners, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. Linkline Communications, Inc., No. 07-512 (Filed Sept. 4, 2008) (2008) (0)
Pricing, Regulating and Intrinsic Motivation (2022) (0)
The Antitrust Dilemma (1979) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: REINTERPRETING THE EXTERNALITY PROBLEM (2008) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: RESCUING ECONOMIC MAN FROM THE SELFISH GENE (2008) (0)
The economics of the business firm: Fourth commentary: Profit maximization and rational behavior (1995) (0)
CROSSING DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES (2008) (0)
APPENDIX: ON THE THEORY OF PRIVATE OWNERSHIP (2008) (0)
From Economic Man to Economic System: WHERE ECONOMIC MAN DWELLS (2008) (0)
BONDHOLDER REACTION TO INCREASES IN LEVERAGE (2009) (0)
A Note on Discounting in Systems Analysis. (1963) (0)
Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of Certiorari, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc., No. 07-512 (filed Nov. 16, 2007) (2007) (0)

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