Harvey Leibenstein

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Harvey Leibenstein

Economics

#814

World Rank

#969

Historical Rank

#432

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Harvey Leibenstein's Degrees

PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Harvey Leibenstein was a Ukrainian-born American economist. One of his most important contributions to economics was the concept of X-inefficiency and the critical minimum effort thesis in development economics.

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Harvey Leibenstein's Published Works

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Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers' Demand (1950) (2229)
European marriage patterns in perspective. (1976) (1241)
Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth. (1958) (832)
Beyond Economic Man. (1977) (379)
A Branch of Economics is Missing Micro-Micro Theory (1979) (264)
General X-Efficiency Theory and Economic Development (1978) (243)
An Interpretation of the Economic Theory of Fertility: Promising Path or Blind Alley? (1974) (226)
Individual Behavior and Economic Outcome. (Book Reviews: Beyond Economic Man. A New Foundation for Microeconomics) (1976) (214)
Economic backwardness and economic growth : studies in the theory of economic development (1957) (209)
Inside the Firm: The Inefficiencies of Hierarchy (1987) (198)
The Theory of Underemployment in Backward Economies (1957) (188)
Empirical Estimation and Partitioning of X-Inefficiency: A Data-Envelopment Approach (1992) (175)
Organizational or Frictional Equilibria, X-Efficiency, and the Rate of Innovation (1969) (175)
The Economic Theory of Fertility Decline (1975) (170)
Investment Criteria, Productivity, and Economic Development (1955) (165)
On the Basic Proposition of X-Efficiency Theory (1978) (147)
Aspects of the X-Efficiency Theory of the Firm (1975) (128)
Allocative Efficiency, X-Efficiency and the Measurement of Welfare Losses (1969) (117)
Intrafirm Productivity: Reply [The Prisoners' Dilemma in the Invisible Hand: An Analysis of Intrafirm Productivity] (1982) (95)
A Theory of Economic-Demographic Development (1954) (74)
Inside the Firm. (1989) (72)
Competition and X-Efficiency: Reply (1973) (63)
X-Efficiency: From Concept to Theory (1979) (62)
World Population and Production: Trends and Outlook (1954) (56)
Economic theory and organizational analysis (1965) (52)
X-Efficiency, Technical Efficiency, and Incomplete Information Use: A Comment (1977) (46)
Property Rights and X-Efficiency: Comment (1983) (45)
Economic decision theory and human fertility behavior: a speculative essay (1981) (45)
Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial training, and x-efficiency theory (1987) (44)
Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market: The Theory of Underemployment in Densely Populated Backward Areas (1986) (38)
On relaxing the maximization postulate (1985) (32)
Incremental Capital-Output Ratios and Growth Rates in the Short Run (1966) (31)
Organizational economics and institutions as missing elements in economic development analysis (1989) (29)
The organizational foundations of X-inefficiency: A game-theoretic interpretation of Argyris' model of organizational learning (1994) (27)
Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth. Studies in the Theory of Economic Development. (1959) (25)
Pitfalls in benefit-cost analysis of birth prevention. (1969) (22)
Underemployment in Backward Economies: Some Additional Notes (1958) (22)
Notes on Welfare Economics and the Theory of Democracy (1962) (21)
Socio-economic fertility theories and their relevance to population policy. (1974) (15)
Review Symposium@@@World Development Report 1984 (1985) (14)
On Some Economic Aspects of a Fragile Input: Trust (1987) (13)
Beyond Economic Man: Economics, Politics, and the Population Problem (1977) (12)
Comment on the Nature of X-Efficiency (1972) (12)
The problem of characterizing aspirations. (1976) (10)
Worker Motivation and X-Efficiency Theory: A Comment (1982) (10)
On the Economic Theory of Fertility: A Reply to Keeley (1975) (10)
Entrepreneurship and economic development (1988) (9)
Rates of return to education in Greece : a discussion of results and policy implications (1967) (7)
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM A THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT (1966) (7)
On bull's-eye-painting economics (1982) (7)
Inflation, income distribution, and x-efficiency theory : a study prepared for the International Labour Office within the framework of the World Employment Programme (1980) (6)
Technical Progress, The Production Function, and Development (1963) (5)
Micro-Micro Theory, Agent-Agent Trade and X-Efficiency (1976) (5)
More on pitfalls. (1970) (5)
The Inflation Process: A Micro-Behavioral Analysis (1981) (4)
The Proportionality Controversy and the Theory of Production (1955) (4)
Population Growth and the Take-off Hypothesis (1963) (4)
Population, development and welfare (1989) (3)
Comments on and responses to contributors (1986) (3)
Underemployment in Backward Economies: Reply (1958) (3)
X-Efficiency and micro-micro theory (1989) (3)
Efficiency Wages, X -Efficiency, and Urban Unemployment (1974) (3)
Comment on Inert Areas and the Definition of X-Efficiency (1974) (3)
Population: A Symposium: Introductory Notes (1975) (2)
Leibenstein on the benefits and costs of birth control programmes. (1970) (2)
Inside the Firm: The Inefficiences of Hierarchy. (1989) (1)
Beyond Economic Man: A New Framework for Microeconomics. (1977) (1)
Welfare Economics and the Theory of Democracy (1967) (1)
Proposal for the development of a theory of economic growth for a Soviet-type economy (1954) (1)
Masahiko Aoki, The Cooperative Game Theory of the Firm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 228, £ 19. 5 (1986) (1)
Effort—Wage Relations, Choice of Technique, and the Urban Employment-Absorption Problem (1975) (1)
Economic Theory of Fertility: Reply to Cullison (1977) (1)
Notes on the X- Efficiency Approach to Inflation, Productivity and Unemployment (1983) (1)
Notes on X-Efficiency and Bureaucracy (1982) (1)
Reply to Mr. Moes and Mr. Villard (1957) (1)
CHAPTER 14. Japanese and Western Management Systems: The Contrasts (1987) (0)
Book reviews. (1976) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Decision Occurrences (1987) (0)
Population growth and development of underdeveloped countries. (1967) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Productivity: The Hidden Prisoner’s Dilemma Analysis (1987) (0)
Balances and Imbalances of Payments: The George H. Leatherbee Lectures, 1957@@@International and Interregional Economics@@@The World Dollar Problem: A Study in International Economics@@@Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth: Studies in the Theory of Economic Development@@@Economic Development: T (1958) (0)
Book Review:Population Growth and Levels of Consumption Horace Belshaw (1958) (0)
X-Efficiency, Managerial Discretion, and the Nature of Employment-Relations: A Game-Theoretical Approach (1988) (0)
Other Reviews@@@Inside the Firm: The Inefficiencies of Hierarchy. (1989) (0)
CHAPTER 7. Conventions as a Solution to the Intrafirm Prisoner's Dilemma Problem (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 11. The Power of Hierarchy (1987) (0)
Comment on Bronfenbrenner's Review of Beyond Economic Man (1978) (0)
CHAPTER 15. Putting It All Together (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Conventions, Coordination, and Decisions (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 13. On Japanese Ethos, Culture, and Management (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 1. Organization and the Procedural Perspective (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 3. On the Anatomy of Decisions (1987) (0)
Discovery and the capitalist process : Israel M. Kirzner, (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985) pp. xiii + 183, $22.50 (1988) (0)
Economic Analysis and Policy in Underdeveloped Countries.@@@Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth. (1958) (0)
APPENDIX. Language, Choice, and Nonoptimization (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 12. Specialization, Hierarchy, and Internal Inefficiency (1987) (0)
Economic Analysis and Policy in Underdeveloped Countries@@@Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth: Studies in the Theory of Economic Development (1958) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Economics of Inertia (1987) (0)
CHAPTER 9. Equilibrium, Entrepreneur ship, and Inertia (1987) (0)
Population Growth and Economic Development (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 10. An Implications Sampler (1987) (0)
Approaches to Problems of High Fertility in Agrarian Societies: Papers Presented to the 1951 Annual Conference of the Milbank Memorial Fund. (1953) (0)
Investment Criteria and Empirical Evidence — A Reply to Mr. Ranis (1963) (0)
A final remark on pitfalls. (1971) (0)
CHAPTER 8. Intrafirm Effort Decisions: Monitoring and Sanctions (1987) (0)

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