Louis G. Putterman

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Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments (2006) (621)
Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality (2008) (552)
States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start (2001) (539)
Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet? (1993) (466)
Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy (2008) (394)
Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry and Efficiency (2005) (387)
Do Non-Strategic Sanctions Obey the Law of Demand? The Demand for Punishment in the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism (2003) (332)
Preferences for Redistribution and Perception of Fairness: An Experimental Study (2009) (316)
Cooperation Under the Threat of Expulsion in a Public Goods Experiment (2005) (315)
Share and share alike? Gender-pairing, personality, and cognitive ability as determinants of giving (2004) (263)
Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game (2004) (238)
Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment? (2006) (233)
Who to punish? Individual decisions and majority rule in mitigating the free rider problem (2009) (221)
Agriculture, Diffusion and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution (2008) (191)
Economics, Values, and Organization (1998) (184)
Cooperation and Punishment (2010) (168)
The Ecology of Collective Action: A Public Goods and Sanctions Experiment with Controlled Group Formation (2007) (163)
Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Sanction Regimes (2014) (161)
Soft budget constraints, social burdens, and labor redundancy in China's state industry (2003) (155)
Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment (2009) (152)
Ownership and the Nature of the Firm (1993) (151)
Income distribution, government transfers, and the problem of unequal influence (1999) (148)
Early Starts, Reversals and Catch-Up in the Process of Economic Development (2007) (141)
Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment (2013) (137)
ON SOME RECENT EXPLANATIONS OF WHY CAPITAL HIRES LABOR (1984) (131)
The economic nature of the firm: A reader. 2nd. ed. (2009) (131)
The Role of Ownership and Property Rights in China's Economic Transition (1995) (124)
On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises (1997) (119)
Values and Institutions in Economic Analysis (1997) (118)
State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia (2014) (112)
Why capital suppliers (usually) hire workers: what we know and what we need to know (2000) (111)
Trusting and trustworthiness (2001) (111)
The cooperative game theory of the firm:, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. ix + 219 pp. $25.00 (1986) (100)
Does Egalitarianism Have a Future (1998) (100)
Economics of Cooperation and the Labour-Managed Economy (2002) (96)
Dualism and Reform in China (1992) (94)
Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development: Collective and Reform Eras in Perspective. (1994) (93)
Continuity and Change in China’s Rural Development (1993) (85)
The Economic Nature of the Firm (2009) (82)
Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal (2014) (76)
State or nature? Endogenous formal versus informal sanctions in the voluntary provision of public goods (2015) (76)
Some behavioral perspectives on the dominance of hierarchical over democratic forms of enterprise (1982) (74)
On some implications of evolutionary psychology for the study of preferences and institutions (2000) (70)
The Firm as Association Versus the Firm as Commodity (1988) (67)
Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes (2011) (65)
The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016) (65)
Reforming China's SOEs: An Overview (2008) (63)
Not just babble : Opening the black box of communication in avoluntary contribution experiment (2009) (62)
Economic Reform and Smallholder Agriculture in Tanzania: A Discussion of Recent Market Liberalization, Road Rehabilitation, and Technology Dissemination Efforts (1995) (60)
Lavish returns on cheap talk: Two-way communication in trust games (2011) (57)
Privatization and firm performance: A comparison between rural and urban enterprises in China (2006) (57)
Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries (2012) (53)
Extrinsic versus intrinsic problems of agricultural cooperation: Anti‐incentivism in Tanzania and China (1985) (50)
State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? (1992) (50)
Productivity and Organization in China's Rural Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis (1997) (49)
On Perverse and Second-Order Punishment in Public Goods Experiments with Decentralized Sanctioning (2004) (49)
The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms, markets, relational contracting : , New York: The Free Press, 1985. xiv + 450 pp., index, $27.95 (1987) (47)
The role of exit costs in the theory of cooperative teams (1992) (46)
Prereform Industry and State Monopsony in China (2000) (45)
Why Have the Rabble not Redistributed the Wealth? On the Stability of Democracy and Unequal Property (1997) (43)
State Effectiveness, Economic Growth, and the Age of States (2005) (42)
China's State-Owned Enterprises in the First Reform Decade: An Analysis of a Declining Monopsony (1997) (41)
Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment (2010) (41)
Monitoring in Teams: Using Laboratory Experiments to Study a Theory of the Firm (2011) (40)
China’s State-Owned Enterprises (2000) (39)
Not Just Babble: Opening the Black Box of Communication in a Voluntary Contribution Experiment (2008) (38)
Lavish Returns on Cheap Talk: Non-Binding Communication in a Trust Experiment (2007) (38)
Trust and its determinants (2018) (37)
Preindustrial and Postwar Economic Development: Is There a Link? (1999) (35)
Sub-Saharan Growth Surprises: Being Heterogeneous, Inland and Close to the Equator Does not Slow Growth Within Africa† (2011) (35)
Can Endogenously Chosen Institutions Mitigate the Free-Rider Problem and Reduce Perverse Punishment? (2005) (33)
Why Capital (Usually) Hires Labor: An Assessment of Proposed Explanations (1996) (32)
Markets, hierarchies, and information: On a paradox in the economics of organization (1995) (32)
Employment and wages in township, village, and other rural enterprises. (1998) (31)
Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Formal, Informal, and No Sanction Regimes (2011) (30)
Elasticities and factor weights for agricultural growth accounting: A look at the data for China (1994) (30)
Choice and Efficiency in a Model of Democratic Semi-collective Agriculture (1985) (30)
Can an evolutionary approach to development predict post‐war economic growth? (2000) (29)
Collectivization and China′s Agricultural Crisis (1993) (28)
Voluntary collectivization: A model of producers' institutional choice (1980) (28)
Pre- and post-reform income distribution in a Chinese Commune: The case of dahe township in Hebei Province (1989) (28)
Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in the Process of Economic Development (2006) (27)
Division of Labor and Welfare: An Introduction to Economic Systems (1990) (27)
Who was colonized and when? A cross-country analysis of determinants (2016) (27)
The incentive effects of monitoring under alternative compensation schemes (1988) (26)
The incentive problem and the demise of team farming in China (1987) (26)
State or Nature? Formal vs. Informal Sanctioning in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods (2011) (25)
Trust Among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, With and Without Textual and Visual Cues (2010) (25)
Learned generosity? An artefactual field experiment with parents and their children (2017) (25)
A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity: Reconsidering the private, unimodal solution (1983) (25)
Incentives and the Kibbutz: Toward an economics of communal work motivation (1983) (24)
Judicial Error and Cooperation (2014) (24)
CHINA'S RURAL INDUSTRY AND MONOPSONY: AN EXPLORATION (1996) (24)
Share and Share Alike ? Intelligence , Socialization , Personality , and Gender-Pairing as Determinants of Giving (2002) (24)
Institutions, social capability, and economic growth (2013) (23)
Social Capital and Development Capacity: The Example of Rural Tanzania (1995) (22)
The organization of work: Comment (1981) (22)
Enterprise Restructuring and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in Jiangsu Province (2004) (22)
On the Emergence of Labour Redundancy in China's State Industry: Findings from a 1980-1994 Data Panel (2001) (21)
China's collectivisation puzzle: A new resolution (1997) (21)
In Broad Daylight: Fuller Information and Higher-Order Punishment Opportunities Can Promote Cooperation (2013) (21)
Factors behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and Some International Illustrations (2013) (20)
Peasants, collectives, and choice: economic theory and Tanzania's villages. (1986) (20)
Effort, productivity, and incentives in a 1970s Chinese People's commune (1990) (19)
Agricultural Producer Co‐Operatives (1991) (19)
Play it Again: Partner Choice, Reputation Building and Learning from Finitely Repeated Dilemma Games (2017) (18)
China's political economy: The quest for development since 1949 : Carl Riskin, (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987) [UK pound]35.00 (cloth), [UK pound]12.50 (paper) (1989) (18)
The Quest for Development (2004) (17)
Trust in the New Economy (2003) (17)
Wealth and poverty:, New York: Basic Books, 1981. xii + 306 pp. $16.95 (1982) (17)
Labour-Managed Firms (2008) (17)
Not Just Babble: A Voluntary Contribution Experiment with Iterative Numerical Messages (2004) (17)
On optimality in collective institutional choice (1981) (16)
Asset Specificity, Governance, and the Employment Relation (1988) (16)
Labor-managed Firms (2006) (15)
Overconfidence and gender gaps in redistributive preferences: Cross-Country experimental evidence (2020) (15)
Productivity consequences of alternative land division methods in China's decollectivization An econometric analysis (1993) (15)
Group Farming and Work Incentives in Collective-Era China (1988) (14)
The Rational Choice Controversy (2017) (14)
Ration Subsidies and Incentives in the Pre-reform Chinese Commune (1988) (13)
Transition to Agriculture and First State Presence: A Global Analysis (2018) (12)
Securing property rights: A dilemma experiment in Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States (2016) (12)
INVESTIGATING THE RISE OF LABOR REDUNDANCY IN CHINA'S STATE INDUSTRY (2000) (11)
Punishment can support cooperation even when punishable (2017) (11)
The New China: Comparative economic development in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Alvin Rabushka (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1987) (1990) (11)
Peasant economics: Farm households and agrarian development : , Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988, xiv + 257 pp., index. $59.50 (1990) (11)
The Quest for Development What role does history play (2004) (10)
Determinants and Economic Consequences of Colonization: A Global Analysis (2012) (10)
Trust and Communication in a Property Rights Dilemma (2016) (10)
Monitoring In Teams: A Model and Experiment on the Central Monitor Hypothesis (2007) (10)
EXIT, VOICE, AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE: AGENCY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP* (1993) (10)
Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production (2006) (10)
Beyond Homo Economicus: New Developments in Theories of Social Norms (2007) (9)
Does Poor Supervisability Undermine Teamwork? Evidence from an Unexpected (1991) (9)
Trusting, Trustworthiness, and CSR: Some Experiments and Implications (2011) (9)
Social Capability, History and the Economies of Communist and Postcommunist States (2007) (9)
Institutional Boundaries, Structural Change, and Economic Reform in China (1992) (8)
State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia (2017) (8)
Getting Punishment Right: Do Costly Monitoring or Redistributive Punishment Help? (2008) (7)
Reputation Transmission Without Benefit to the Reporter: A Behavioral Underpinning of Markets in Experimental Focus (2015) (7)
Incentives and Monitoring in Cooperatives with Labor-Proportionate Sharing Schemes (1993) (6)
Self-governance in noisy social dilemmas : Experimental evidence on punishment with costly monitoring (2017) (6)
Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending (2019) (6)
Sub-Saharan Growth Surprises: Geography, Institutions and History in an All African Data Panel (2006) (6)
Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China (2019) (6)
Title Why China's economic reforms differ: the M-form hierarchy and entry/expansion of the non-state sector (1993) (6)
Voluntary contributions with redistribution: The effect of costly sanctions when one person's punishment is another's reward (2013) (5)
COMMODIFICATION OF LABOR FOLLOWS COMMODIFICATION OF THE FIRM ON A THEOREM OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS (1989) (5)
Governing Collective Action in the Face of Observational Error (2017) (5)
Is a democratic collective agriculture possible?: Theoretical considerations and evidence from Tanzania (1981) (5)
When is punishment harmful to cooperation? A note on antisocial and perverse punishment (2018) (5)
Learned Generosity? A Field Experiment with Parents and Their Children (2015) (5)
People's Republic of China: Systemic and Structural Change in a North China Township (1988) (5)
LOCAL STATE HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT: EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA⇤ (2013) (5)
Play it Again: Partner Choice, Reputation Building and Learning in Restarting, Finitely-Repeated Dilemma Games (2013) (4)
Chapter 22 Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production (2006) (4)
Trust, Communication and Contracts: Experimental Evidence (2006) (4)
Behavioural economics: A caring majority secures the future (2014) (4)
Trust, Beliefs and Cooperation: An Experiment (2019) (4)
The Supply of Labour by Individuals to a Chinese Collective Farm: The Case of Dahe Commune (1993) (4)
Marx and Disequilibrium (1988) (3)
Comment on T. Eggertsson, "Limits to Institutional Reforms." (1998) (3)
Civic Engagement as a Second-Order Public Good: The Cooperative Underpinnings of the Accountable State (2019) (3)
Gender and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence (2016) (3)
Social Capability, History and the Economies of Communist and Post-Communist States (2005) (3)
Village communities, cooperation, and inequality in Tanzania: Comments on Collier et al (1990) (3)
Democratic, Accountable States are Impossible Without 'Behavioral' Humans (2018) (3)
Markets and democracy: participation, accountability and efficiency: After the employment relation: problems on the road to enterprise democracy (1993) (3)
Trigger-happy or precisionist? On demand for monitoring in peer-based public goods provision (2021) (3)
Workers and Incentives : , Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982. 239 pp. $60.00 (1984) (3)
An Honest Day's Pay: Cooperation among Entrepreneurs vs. Students, and Linkages to Real‐World Business Success (2019) (3)
Population and Food Dynamics: A Caloric Measurement in Egypt (1980) (3)
Dollars and Change: Economics in Context (1993) (2)
Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry, and Efficiency (2002) (2)
Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State (2020) (2)
Ethnic bias, economic success and trust (2020) (2)
The economic nature of the firm: Reintroducing The Economic Nature of the Firm (2009) (2)
Economic Motivation and the Transition to Collective Socialism: Its Application to Tanzania (1982) (2)
When Punishment Supports Cooperation (2014) (2)
Agriculture, Diffusion, and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution (2006) (2)
Human Nature, Communication and Trust (2009) (2)
Heterogeneous Predispositions and the Effects of Sorting, Voting, and Communication in Collective Action Dilemmas (2009) (2)
Dollars and Change: Economics in Context (1993) (2)
Do China's People Favour Redistribution? Evidence from an Incentivized Experiment (2019) (1)
Corporate Governance, Risk-Bearing and Economic Power: A Comment on Recent Work by (1987) (1)
1 Communication and Punishment in Voluntary Contribution Experiments (2002) (1)
Trust, Beliefs and Cooperation: Excavating a Foundation of Strong Economies (2019) (1)
Some Experiments and Implications (2011) (1)
Culture, genes and cooperation: comment on Henrich (2004) (1)
Book Reviews (2013) (1)
EXPERIMENTS: RECIPROCITY, MIMICRY AND EFFICIENCY* (2016) (1)
Industrial Relations Center, University (1997) (1)
1 Equality , Equity and Incentives : An Experiment # (2010) (1)
Trigger-Happy or Precisionist? On Demand for Monitoring in a Noisy Social Dilemma Game (2019) (1)
Comments on A Future for Socialism (1994) (1)
In Broad Daylight: Full Information and Higher-order Punishment Opportunities Promote Cooperation (2012) (1)
An Uninterpreted Spatial Version of the Trust Game: Evidence of Reciprocity Without Suggestive Words, Evidence of Iterated Dominance Self-Taught (2012) (1)
A Preliminary Analysis of the ANES 2006 Pilot Study Responses to Questions on Progressivity of Taxes and Estate Tax (2007) (1)
Chapter 19. Attitudes toward the Progressivity of Taxes, Corporate Tax, and Estate Tax (2012) (1)
Tanzanian and african socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer (1984) (1)
A Note on Income Distribution and Government Transfers (1997) (1)
OF DEMOCRATIC SEMI-COLLECTIVE AGRICULTURE (2016) (0)
A note on the relationship of interdependent action to the optimality of certain voting decisions (1994) (0)
Cooperation and trust, supportable by our social natures, foster synergy of private, public, and civic sectors (2022) (0)
Perception of Fairness and Redistributive Choices: Evidence from Experiments with Large Groups (2007) (0)
Peasant motivation towards ujamaa production: a preliminary report. (1980) (0)
Assessing African Development (1984) (0)
Getting Punnishment Right: Do Costly Monitoring or Redustributive Punishment Help? (2008) (0)
China’s Rural Economy under Two Regimes (1993) (0)
Economics and Social Interaction: Economics and interpersonal relations: ruling the social back in (2005) (0)
ANCIAL EQUILIBRIUM AND INI (2009) (0)
State or nature? Endogenous formal versus informal sanctions in the voluntary provision of public goods (2014) (0)
Labor Supply by Individuals (1993) (0)
Correction to: The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019) (0)
When is punishment harmful to cooperation? A note on antisocial and perverse punishment (2018) (0)
The political economy of collective farms: An analysis of China's post-mao rural reforms:, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988. viii + 259 pp., index. $44.50 (1991) (0)
Overlapping Generations , Moral Hazard , and the Organization of Medical Partnerships (1998) (0)
The Impact of Household Responsibility Systems on Farm Productivity (1993) (0)
Erratum to “In broad daylight: Fuller information and higher-order punishment opportunities can promote cooperation” [J. Econ. Behav. Org. 120 (2015) 145–159] (2016) (0)
INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON RESEARCH ON SOCIAL DILEMMAS (2019) (0)
Factor Allocation and Productivity Growth: Some Views from Team Level (1993) (0)
Algorithmic Leviathan or Individual Choice: Choosing Sanctioning Regimes in the Face of Observational Error (2022) (0)
Economic Reform and State–Owned Enterprises in China, 1979–19 by Donald Hay, Derek Morris, Guy Liu and Shujie Yao. [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, xii + 494pp., £50.00. ISBN 0-19-828845-X.] (1996) (0)
Joseph Stiglitz,Wither Socialism.Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. xii + 338 pp., index, $29.95. (1996) (0)
One Step at a Time : Does Gradualism Foster Group Coordination ? (2013) (0)
The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19 (2022) (0)
Trust and Cooperation : An experimental study * (2016) (0)
1 STATES AND MARKETS : THE ADVANTAGE OF AN EARLY START ( forthcoming , Journal of Economic Growth [ accepted for publication July , 2002 ] ) (2002) (0)
SOEs and TVEs in Nanjing Municipality(1994-2001) (2018) (0)
Post-Collective Land Tenure: An Analysis of Assignment Rules and Farm Productivity* (1993) (0)
Data for: Who was colonized and when? A cross-country analysis of determinants (2016) (0)
Household Factor Allocation and Administrative Intervention in the Post-Collective Era: A Simulation Analysis* (1993) (0)
Internal labor markets : Paul Osterman, ed., (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) pp. xii + 296, $30.00 (1985) (0)
Economic systems and comparative economics (2001) (0)
Producers' organizational choice : theory and the case of the Tanzanian villages (1980) (0)
Incentives in the Collective Era1 (1993) (0)
Self-management: Economic theory and yugoslav practice:, Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. x + 264 pp., index. $49.50 (1985) (0)
Regional Variation in the Rural Economy (1993) (0)
Food insecurity and the social division of labour in Tanzania, 1919–85 : Deborah Faby Bryceson, (Macmillan, London, 1990) pp. xvii+285 (1992) (0)
The Role of the State and Markets in Development (2008) (0)

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