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Lee J. Alston

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Lee J. Alston's Degrees

PhD Economics University of Washington
Masters Economics University of Washington
Bachelors Economics University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Lee J. Alston is the Ostrom Chair, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. On August 6, 2014, Alston was appointed director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, from which he received his B.A. in 1973. His research has focused on institutions and contracts and their role in influencing rural land use in the US and Brazil. In 2012 Alston was awarded a Clio Can award by the Cliometric Society for Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics.

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The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier (1996) (466)
Empirical studies in institutional change (1996) (408)
Land reform policies, the sources of violent conflict, and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. (2000) (355)
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy (2013) (226)
Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier (2010) (210)
Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s (1994) (145)
Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests (1982) (141)
A note on the economics of institutions (1996) (133)
Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period (1983) (115)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 (1999) (110)
Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies (2008) (110)
Farm Foreclosure Moratorium Legislation: A Lesson from the Past (1984) (109)
Resource coordination and transaction costs: A framework for analyzing the firm/market boundary (1989) (107)
A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil (1999) (102)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Empirical work in institutional economics: an overview (1996) (99)
Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State (1993) (99)
Property Rights and the Preconditions for Markets: The Case of the Amazon Frontier (1995) (98)
Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with Transactions Costs (1984) (84)
The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics (2012) (77)
Legally induced technical regress in the Washington salmon fishery (1996) (72)
Economic History of the United States (70)
Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture: A Constraint on the Growth of the Welfare State (1985) (69)
Property Rights and the State (2005) (62)
Who Decides the Budget?: A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America (2009) (59)
Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil (2006) (56)
Tenure choice in Southern agriculture, 1930–1960 (1981) (55)
Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence (2013) (54)
Institutional and Organizational Analysis (2018) (53)
Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina (2009) (52)
Farm Failures and Government Intervention: A Case Study of the 1930' s (1987) (50)
The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925–1941 (1991) (42)
Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for REDD+ (2018) (42)
Inheritance Laws Across Colonies: Causes and Consequences (1984) (41)
Legal Reserve Requirements in Brazilian Forests: Path Dependent Evolution of De Facto Legislation (2007) (40)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State (1999) (39)
Land, property rights and privatization in Brazil (1994) (39)
Brazil in Transition (2018) (36)
Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890–1938 (2005) (33)
De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers (2009) (33)
Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil (2010) (31)
Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil (2010) (30)
Agricultural Chutes and Ladders: New Estimates of Sharecroppers and “True Tenants” in the South, 1900–1920 (1997) (30)
Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil (2012) (29)
Titles, Conflict, And Land Use (1999) (28)
New Institutional Economics: The “Case” for Case Studies in New Institutional Economics (2008) (26)
Wages and the Intensity of Labor Effort: Efficiency Wages Versus Compensating Payments (1994) (26)
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by forest protection: The transaction costs of implementing REDD (2011) (26)
The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms markets, relational contracting: Oliver E. Williamson, (The Free Press, New York, 1985) pp. xiv + 450, $25.00 (1987) (24)
Social reformers and regulation: the prohibition of cigarettes in the United States and Canada (2002) (23)
UP, DOWN, AND OFF THE AGRICULTURAL LADDER : NEW EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS OF AGRICULTURAL MOBILITY FOR BLACKS IN THE POSTBELLUM SOUTH (1998) (22)
Technological choice and the organization of work in capitalist firms (1992) (22)
Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915 (2009) (21)
Who Decides on Public Expenditures?: A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process: The Case of Brazil (2005) (19)
Competition and the Compensation of Sharecroppers by Race: A View from Plantations in the Early Twentieth Century☆ (2001) (18)
Social Control and Labor Relations in the American South Before the Mechanization of the Cotton Harvest in the 1950s (1989) (17)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DECISIONS (1996) (17)
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD (2011) (16)
The Political Economy of Productivity in Brazil (2010) (16)
The Erosion of Checks and Balances in Argentina and the Rise of Populism in Argentina: An Explanation for Argentina's Economic Slide from the Top Ten (2005) (14)
Towards a More Evolutionary Theory of Property Rights (2015) (14)
Argentina's Abandonment of the Rule of Law and Its Aftermath (2008) (12)
Beliefs, Leadership and Critical Transitions: Brazil, 1964-2014 (2014) (11)
The Political Economy of Bank Reform in Argentina Under Convertibility (2002) (10)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Conclusion (1999) (10)
Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2001) (10)
Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865–1980 . By Gilbert C. Fite. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Pp. xiii, 273. $28.00. (1985) (10)
Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873 (2005) (10)
How Interest Groups with Limited Resources Can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil (2005) (9)
Beyond Institutions: Beliefs and Leadership (2017) (9)
The Choices Governors Make: The Roles of Checks and Balances and Political Competition (2008) (8)
Evolution and Revolution in the Argentine Banking System Under Convertibility: The Roles of Crises and Path Dependence (2000) (8)
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance: Douglass C. North, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1990) pp. viii+152, hardcover $32.50, paper $10.95 (1992) (8)
Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964-2014 (2016) (7)
Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. And Canada (2000) (7)
Institutions in Economics: The old and new institutionalism, by Malcolm Rutherford. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne, 1994. Pp. xi, 225. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-45189-2. (1996) (7)
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier (2005) (6)
Costs of Contracting and the Decline of Tenancy in the South, 1930–1960 (1979) (6)
Property Rights, Land Settlement and Land Conflict on Frontiers: Evidence from Australia, Brazil and the US (2011) (6)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: The economics and politics of institutional change (1996) (6)
The evolution of modern institutions of growth (1996) (6)
The political economy of conflict and appropriation: Violence and the assignment of property rights on two Brazilian frontiers (1996) (5)
Toward an understanding of property rights (1996) (5)
Brazilian Development: This Time for Real? (2011) (5)
Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1890, and: The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860-1880 (review) (2012) (5)
Coalitional Stability and the Gains From Trade Between the Executive and the Legislature in Brazil (2001) (4)
The Erosion of Rule of Law in Argentina, 1930-1947: An Explanation of Argentina's Economic Slide from the Top 10 (2003) (4)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Preface (1999) (4)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Regulation in a dynamic setting (1996) (2)
Shaping Welfare Policy: The Role of the South (2007) (2)
The impact of paternalism on racial land rental differences in the USA (2000) (2)
The Bracero Program and U.S. Farm Labor Legislation in World War II (1993) (2)
Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860–1890. By Ronald L. F. Davis. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 225. $25.00 (1983) (2)
Reviw of law and employment: lessons from latin America and the Caribean with an emphasis on brazilian labor institutions. (2004) (2)
Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915 (2008) (2)
Access to land, rural poverty and public action: Edited by Alain de Janvry, Gustavo Gordillo, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. pp. xiii, 451 (2003) (2)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Transaction costs and economic development (1996) (2)
Priests, Conflicts and Property Rights: the Impacts on Tenancy and Land Use in Brazil (2018) (2)
Who decides on Public Expenditures? The Political Economy of the Budget Process in Brazil (2008) (2)
Price controls, property rights, and institutional change (1996) (2)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: The Economics of Paternalism (1999) (1)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights (1996) (1)
The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont. By Charles E. Orser Jr, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 322. $35.00 (1990) (1)
The Predatory or Virtuous Choices Governors Make : The Roles of Checks and Balances and Political Competition (2008) (1)
Did U.S. Agricultural Policy Lock Farmers into Wheat? The Capitalization of Farm Policies into Land Prices in the U.S and Canada (2000) (1)
Technological Change, Transaction Costs, and the Industrial Organisation of Cotton Production in the Us South, 1950‚Äì1970 (1999) (1)
Economic Backwardness and Catching up (2016) (1)
A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions (2016) (1)
Leadership and Organizational Hierarchies (2020) (1)
Institutions and property rights across time and space: lessons from Eastern Europe and Latin America (2000) (1)
Ego functioning and memory style. (1970) (1)
Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes: Research Proposal for a Case Study of Brazil (2003) (1)
Chapter 7. A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions (2016) (1)
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Impediments to institutional change in the former Soviet system (1996) (1)
De Facto And De Jure Property Rights:Land Settlement And Land Conflict On The Brazilian Frontier In The 19thcentury (2011) (1)
Solving the Puzzle of Missing Land Rentals in Latin America: Conflicts and Crops in Brazil (2003) (0)
Why Countries Transition? The Case of Brazil, 1964–2016 (2016) (0)
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS, 1925-1939 (1986) (0)
Chapter 4. Transition to Democracy and the Belief in Social Inclusion (1985–1993) (2016) (0)
Leadership and Organizations (2021) (0)
Contracting for Property Rights. By Gary D. Libecap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 132. $39.50 (1991) (0)
The U.S. Farm Problem. (1985) (0)
Deepening Beliefs and Institutional Change (2002–2014) (2018) (0)
Chapter 8. Conclusion (2016) (0)
Institutional Analysis:Concepts and Applications (2015) (0)
Departing From the Road towards a Belief in a System of Checks and Balances in Argentina: Electoral Fraud in the 1930s and the Rise of Peron (2006) (0)
Chapter 5. Cardoso Seizes a Window of Opportunity (1993–2002) (2016) (0)
The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924–1933. By David C. Wheelock · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv + 126 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. ISBN 0-521-39155-5. (1993) (0)
The Judicial System (2018) (0)
Bibliography (2019) (0)
Chapter 6. Deepening Beliefs and Institutional Change (2002– 2014) (2016) (0)
Chapter 3. From Disorder to Growth and Back: The Military Regime (1964–1984) (2016) (0)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Mechanization and the Disappearance of Paternalism (1999) (0)
Chapter 2. A Conceptual Dynamic For Understanding Development (2016) (0)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Southern Opposition to the Farm Security Administration (1999) (0)
William S aylor III is a scientist at the Illinois State Water Survey (2001) (0)
The economics of rural organization: Theory, practice and policy: Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993) (1995) (0)
The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations (2022) (0)
Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research. Vol. 3. Edited by Paul Uselding. Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1978. Pp. viii + 378. $28.50, institutions; $14.50, individuals (1979) (0)
Framework for Analyzing the Firm / Market Boundary (2001) (0)
Introduction [Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change] (2016) (0)
Book Reviews 301 Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Cen- (2010) (0)
Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications . Seventh World Congress. Volume 2. Edited by David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 356. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper. (1998) (0)
The politics of institutional change in a representative democracy (1996) (0)
The New Institutional Economics: Institutions, Behavior and Socio-Economic Outcomes (2010) (0)
An empirical test of governance: subnational governance in the Brazilian states and its effect on public policies (2008) (0)
Cardoso Seizes a Window of Opportunity (1993–2002) (2018) (0)
Why Countries Transition? The Case of Brazil, 1964–2016 (2016) (0)
Property Rights in Historical Political Economy: When Do Wedges Wither? (2022) (0)
The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization engaged in quantitative analysis of the American economy (2010) (0)
Economic History Association Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period (2007) (0)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: The Politics of Maintaining Paternalism (1999) (0)
Development in the Modern World : Power , Beliefs and Institutions with an Application to Brazil * (2011) (0)
Institutions and Markets in History (1994) (0)
A Conceptual Dynamic for Understanding Development (2018) (0)
Leadership Within Organizations (2021) (0)
Contributors to this Issue (1999) (0)
Transition to Democracy and the Belief in Social Inclusion (1985–1993) (2018) (0)
From Disorder to Growth and Back: The Military Regime (1964–1984) (2018) (0)
Review of the book BRAZIL IN TRANSITION : BELIEFS , LEADERSHIP , AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE (2010) (0)
United States and Canada (1999) (0)
Who Should Govern Congress? The Salary Grab of 1873 and the Coalition of Reform (WP-05-07) (2005) (0)
General and Miscellaneous (1998) (0)
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United States (1992) (0)
Appendix: A Primer on the Brazilian Political System (2016) (0)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: The Bracero Program and Wartime Farm Labor Legislation (1999) (0)
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Southern Opposition to the Social Security Act (1999) (0)
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS: A CASE STUDY OF THE 1930's (1986) (0)
Property Rights and Transaction Costs (2018) (0)
The New Institutional Economics and Cliometrics (2023) (0)

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