This collection represents a sample of faculty work from the Department of Economics. Economics focuses on decision making and problem solving. It concerns itself with making intelligent individual and social choices in a world of scarcity. The Economics faculty is known for its scholarship and for its commitment to undergraduate teaching.

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Submissions from 2014

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The Effect Of Decentralized Governance On Timber Extraction In European Russia, Kelly J. Wendland, David J. Lewis, and Jennifer Alix-Garcia

Submissions from 2013

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The Loss Of Forest Birds Habitats Under Different Land Use Policies As Projected By A Coupled Ecological-econometric Model, Frederic Beaudry, Volker C. Radeloff, Anna M. Pidgeon, Andrew J. Plantinga, David J. Lewis, David Helmers, and Van Butsic

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Reserve Selection With Land Market Feedbacks, Van Butsic, David J. Lewis, and Volker C. Radeloff

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Introduction: Methodology, Systemic Risk, And The Economics Profession, John Davis and Douglas Wade Hands

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Current And Future Land Use Around A Nationwide Protected Area Network, Christopher M. Hamilton, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Andrew J. Plantinga, Volker C. Radeloff, David J. Lewis, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Patricia J. Heglund, and Anna M. Pidgeon

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Introduction To Symposium On The Explanation Paradox, Douglas Wade Hands

Review of: Economists and Societies: National Context and Modern Economics, D. Wade Hands

What a Difference a Sum (?) Makes: Success and Failure in the Rationalization of Demand, D. Wade Hands

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Key Areas For Conserving United States' Biodiversity Likely Threatened By Future Land Use Change, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Volker C. Radeloff, J. V. Higgins, D. P. Helmers, Andrew J. Plantinga, and David J. Lewis

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Public Goods Provision By Asymmetric Agents: Experimental Evidence, Matthew McGinty and Garrett Milam

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Modeling Grassland Conversion: Challenges Of Using Satellite Imagery Data, Benjamin S. Rashford, Shannon E. Albeke, and David J. Lewis

Submissions from 2012

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What A Difference A Sum (sigma) Makes: Success And Failure In The Rationalization Of Demand, Douglas Wade Hands

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Realism, Commonsensibles, and Economics: The Case of Contemporary Revealed Preference Theory, D. Wade Hands

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The Positive-Normative Dichotomy and Economics, D. Wade Hands

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The Rise and Fall of Walrasian Economics: The Keynesian Effect, D. Wade Hands

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Economic-Based Projections of Future Land-Use Under Alternative Economic Policy Scenarios in the Conterminous U.S., David J. Lewis, V. C. Radeloff, E. Nelson, A. J. Plantinga, D. Helmers, J. J. Lawler, J. C. Withey, F. Beaudry, S. Martinuzzi, V. Butsic, E. Lonsdorf, D. White, and S. Polasky

Thomas Holdych: A Pioneer and Visionary, Bruce Mann

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Coalition Stability In Public Goods Provision: Testing An Optimal Allocation Rule, Matthew McGinty, Garrett Milam, and Alejandro Gelves

Smuggling in international markets, Andrew J. Monaco

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Economic-based Projections Of Future Land Use In The Conterminous United States Under Alternative Policy Scenarios, Volker C. Radeloff, E. Nelson, Andrew J. Plantinga, David J. Lewis, D. Helmers, J. J. Lawler, J. C. Withey, F. Beaudry, Sebastian Martinuzzi, V. Butsic, E. Lonsdorf, D. White, and Stephen Polasky

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Economic Inequities In Child Support: The Role Of Gender, Kate J. Stirling and Thomas Aldrich

Submissions from 2011

Introduction, John B. Davis and Douglas Wade Hands

Introduction: The Changing Character Of Economic Methodology, John B. Davis and Douglas Wade Hands

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Back to the Ordinalist Revolution: Behavioral Economic Concerns in Early Modern Consumer Choice Theory, D. Wade Hands

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Chapter 1: Introduction, D. Wade Hands and John B. Davis

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The Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology, D. Wade Hands and John Bryan Davis

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An Econometric Analysis of Land Development with Endogenous Zoning, David Lewis, Van Butsic, and Lindsay Ludwig

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Are There Spatial Spillovers in the Adoption of Clean Technology? The Case of Organic Dairy Farming, David J. Lewis, Bradford L. Barham, and Brian Robinson

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The Efficiency of Voluntary Incentive Policies for Preventing Biodiversity Loss, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, Erik Nelson, and Stephen Polasky

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Regional- and District-Level Drivers of Timber Harvesting in European Russia After the Collapse of the Soviet Union, David Lewis, Kelly J. Wendland, Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Mutlu Ozdogan, Matthias Baumann, and Volker C. Radeloff

Submissions from 2010

Book Reviews, Anthony Brewer, David Colander, Simon Cook, Douglas Wade Hands, Michael Perelman, Malcolm Rutherford, Neil T. Skaggs, Jan Toporowski, Keith Tribe, and Howard R. Vane

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Economics, Psychology And The History Of Consumer Choice Theory, Douglas Wade Hands

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The Invisible Hand In Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences, Douglas Wade Hands

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Economics, Psychology, and the History of Consumer Choice Theory, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Consequences, D. Wade Hands

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Stabilizing Consumer Choice: The Role of ‘True Dynamic Stability’ and Related Concepts in the History of Consumer Choice Theory, D. Wade Hands

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The Phase Diagram Technique for Analyzing the Stability of Multiple-Market Equilibrium, D. Wade Hands

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An Economic Framework for Forecasting Land Use and Ecosystem Change, David J. Lewis

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Lakeshore Zoning has Heterogeneous Ecological Effects: An Application of a Coupled Economic-Ecological Model, David J. Lewis, Van Butsic, and Volker C. Radeloff

Submissions from 2009

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Effective Tension In Robbins' Economic Methodology, Douglas Wade Hands

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Rejoinder To Ross: More On The Robbins–samuelson Argument Pattern, Douglas Wade Hands

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Symposium On Terence Hutchison And Economic Methodology: Introduction, Douglas Wade Hands

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Effective Tension in Robbins’s Economic Methodology, D. Wade Hands

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Rejoinder to Ross: More on the Robbins-Samuelson Argument Pattern, D. Wade Hands

The Road May Not Have Been Taken, But it Was Explored: Behavioral Economic Concerns in Early Twentieth Century Consumer Choice Theory, D. Wade Hands

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Open Space Issues At The Rural–urban Fringe: Discussion, David J. Lewis

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Targeting Incentives to Reduce Habitat Fragmentation, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Junjie Wu

Submissions from 2008

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Beyond The Lamppost: Optimal Prevention And Control Of The Brown Tree Snake In Hawaii, Kimberly Burnett, Sean D'evelyn, Brooks A. Kaiser, Porntawee Nantamanasikarn, and James A. Roumasset

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Introspection, Revealed Preference, And Neoclassical Economics: A Critical Response To Don Ross On The Robbins-samuelson Argument Pattern, Douglas Wade Hands

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Philosophy and Economics, D. Wade Hands

What A Difference a Sum (?) Makes: Agony and Ecstasy in the Rationalization of Demand, D. Wade Hands

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Environmental Resources And Economic Growth, James A. Roumasset, Kimberly Burnett, and Hua Wang

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Knowledge and Technology: The Basis of Wealth and Power, Ross Singleton

Submissions from 2007

Invasive Species Control Over Space And Time: Miconia Calvescens On Oahu, Hawaii, Kimberly Burnett, Brooks A. Kaiser, and James A. Roumasset

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2006 HES Presidential address a Tale of two Mainstreams: Economics and Philosophy of Natural Science in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Douglas Wade Hands

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William Stanley Jevons And The Making Of Modern Economics, Douglas Wade Hands

Review of: Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 2006

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Frank Knight and Pragmatism, D. Wade Hands

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Individual Psychology, Rational Choice, and Demand: Some Remarks on Three Recent Studies, D. Wade Hands

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Integrability, Rationalizability, and Path-Dependency in the History of Demand Theory, D. Wade Hands

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Priority Fights in Economic Science: Paradox and Resolution, D. Wade Hands

Review of: The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, D. Wade Hands

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Agreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century, D. Wade Hands and Philip Mirowski

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Introduction, D. Wade Hands and Philip Mirowski

Submissions from 2005

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Review of: The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences edited by Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross, Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: The Cambridge History of Science Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences, D. Wade Hands

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The Individual in Economic Theory: Hide and Seek in the Ontology of Economics, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 2004

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Selected Essays By Frank H. Knight, Vol 1, What Is Truth In Economics?, Douglas Wade Hands

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Selected Essays By Frank H. Knight, Vol 2, Laissez-faire: Pro And Con, Douglas Wade Hands

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Constructivism: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge, D. Wade Hands

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Introductory Mathematical Economics, D. Wade Hands

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On Operationalisms and Economics, D. Wade Hands

Review of: Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, D. Wade Hands

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Transforming Methodology: Critical Realism and Recent Economic Methodology, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 2003

Book Review Symposium, John Dupré, Jochen Runde, Diana Strassmann, and Douglas Wade Hands

Is There Progress In Economics? Knowledge, Truth And The History Of Economic Thought, Douglas Wade Hands

Postmodernism, Economics, And Knowledge (book), Douglas Wade Hands

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Reconsidering the Received View of the ‘Received View’: Kant, Kuhn, and the Demise of Positivist Philosophy of Science, D. Wade Hands

Review of: Is There Progress in Economics? Knowledge, Truth and the History of Economic Thought, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, D. Wade Hands

Three Pedagogical Vignettes: Diagrammatic Representations of the Schumpeterian Dilemma, the Public Good Problem and the Asymmetric Information (Snake Oil) Problem, Ross Singleton

Submissions from 2002

The Sociology Of Scientific Knowledge: Some Thoughts On The Possibilities, Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: Karl Popper – The Formative Years 1902-1945, D. Wade Hands

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Social Realism in Contemporary Science Studies, D. Wade Hands

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Book Reviews, Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Michael Brun, James Peoples, and Douglas Wade Hands

The Social Performance And Distributional Consequences Of Contract Farming: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Arachide De Bouche Program In Senegal, Matthew Warning and Nigel Key

Submissions from 2001

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Economic Methodology Is Dead--long Live Economic Methodology: Thirteen Theses On The New Economic Methodology, Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: On The Methodology Of Economics And The Formalist Revolution by Terence Hutchison, Douglas Wade Hands

Review of: Incommensurability and Translation: Kuhnian Perspectives on Scientific Communication and Theory Change, D. Wade Hands

Submissions from 2000

Expert Knowledge, Ersatz Knowledge, And Economics [review Article], Douglas Wade Hands

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Review of: Canonizing Economic Theory: How Theories and Ideas are Selected in Economics, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: The Economics of Science: Methodology and Epistemology As If Economics Really Mattered, D. Wade Hands

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Review of: What Do Economists Know? New Economics of Knowledge, D. Wade Hands

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Creating Capacity and Competition in Broadband Telecommunications: The City of Tacoma's Initiative, Ross Singleton and William H. Baarsma

Child Support Awards: Are Nonresident Dads Dead-Beat or Beat-up?, Kate Stirling

Promoting Critical Thinking in Economics Education, Kate Stirling and Mary Beckman

Submissions from 1999

Empirical Realism As Meta-method: Tony Larson On Neoclassical Economics, Douglas Wade Hands

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The Matching Law: Papers In Psychology And Economics, Douglas Wade Hands

Review of: Matching, Melioration and Rational Choice, D. Wade Hands