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Theoretical and empirical studies of producer cooperatives: will ever the twain meet?

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JP Bonin, DC Jones… - Journal of Economic Literature, 1993 - JSTOR
PRODUCER COOPERATIVES (hereafter, PCs) have existed in Western economies since
the advent of the factory system. The oldest surviving PCs in the UK and Italy are over one
hundred years old. Nineteenth century economists of the stature of John Stuart Mill and ...
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[BOOK] The economic nature of the firm: a reader

LG Putterman… - 1996 - books.google.com
... Page 2. Page 3. The economic nature of the firm Page 4. Page 5. The economic nature of the
firm A reader Edited by Louis Putterman BROWN UNIVERSITY and Randall S. Kroszner
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Page 6. ...
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Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments

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O Bochet, T Page… - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2006 - Elsevier
We compare three forms of communication and punishment as incentives to increase
contributions to public goods in laboratory experiments. We find, as in earlier experiments,
that face-to-face communication has very strong effects, but surprisingly that verbal ...
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[BOOK] Economics of cooperation and the labor-managed economy

J Bonin… - 1987 - books.google.com
Page 1. Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics Editors-in-chief: Jacques Lesourne and
Hugo Sonnenschein Economics of Cooperation and the Labor-Managed Economy John P. Bonin
and Louis Putterman harwood academic publishers Page 2. Page 3. ...
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Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism

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CM Anderson… - Games and Economic Behavior, 2006 - Elsevier
The prospect of receiving a monetary sanction for free riding has been shown to increase
contributions to public goods. We ask whether the impulse to punish is unresponsive to the
cost to the punisher, or whether, like other preferences, it interacts with prices to generate ...
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States and markets: The advantage of an early start

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V Bockstette, A Chanda… - Journal of Economic Growth, 2002 - Springer
In this paper, an index of the depth of experience with state-level institutions, or state
antiquity, is derived for a large set of countries. We show that state antiquity is significantly
correlated with measures of political stability and institutional quality, with income per ...
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Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry and Efficiency*

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T Page, L Putterman… - The Economic Journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We find that a process of voluntary association where individuals express a preference
about whom they want to be associated with can create strong incentives to increase
efficiency and contributions in provision of a public good. This process of endogenous ...
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[BOOK] Continuity and change in China's rural development: collective and reform eras in perspective

LG Putterman - 1993 - books.google.com
CONTINUITY & CHANGE IN CHINA'S RURAL Collective & Reform Eras in Perspective Louis
Putterman ... Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development Collective and Reform Eras
in Perspective Louis Putterman New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1993 ...
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[BOOK] Economics, values, and organization

A Ben-Ner… - 1999 - books.google.com
Economics, Values, and Organizatio ii EDI BY Avner Ben-Ner AND Louis Putterman Foreword
by Amartya Sen ... Economics, values, and organization Edited by AVNER BEN-NER University
of Minnesota LOUIS PUTTERMAN Brown University CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ...
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On some recent explanations of why capital hires labor

L Putterman - Economic inquiry, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional microeconomics contains no explanation of why capital hires labor (and not
the reverse). In view of some surprisingly positive results in the theoretical analysis of worker-
run enterprise systems, recent contributions to the theory of the firm have attempted to ...
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[BOOK] Ownership and the nature of the firm

L Putterman - 1996 - books.google.com
The production of goods and services commonly requires a large variety of inputs, including
financial resources, risk-bearing services, and decision making. Decision making is a
necessary input because production takes place in real time, and relevant events, such as ...
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Values and institutions in economic analysis

A Ben-Ner… - Economics, values, and organization, 1998 - books.google.com
The subject of values was once considered to lie beyond the purview of economic science.
Preferences, taken as given to the agent and society, were seen as being about goods,
dates of consumption, and states of the world, not about means (how to behave), or about ...
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Does egalitarianism have a future?

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L Putterman, JE Roemer… - Journal of Economic Literature, 1998 - JSTOR
International political events of the past two decades have led many observers, both
amateur and professional, to conclude that the egalitarian experiments of the twentieth
century are finished and failed, and, moreover, that no similarly motivated experiments will ...
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Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment

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M Cinyabuguma, T Page… - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
In a public goods experiment with the opportunity to vote to expel members of a group, we
found that contributions rose to nearly 100% of endowments with significantly higher
efficiency compared with a no-expulsion baseline. Our findings support the intuition that ...
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The role of ownership and property rights in China's economic transition

L Putterman - CHINA QUARTERLY-LONDON-, 1995 - Cambridge Univ Press
The ever-greater roles played by markets and pecuniary incentives, and the increasing
decision-making authority of localities, enterprises and individuals, have been central
elements of China's economic reforms. Compared with these radical departures from the ...
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Dualism and reform in China

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L Putterman - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1992 - JSTOR
According to the dual economy tradition of economic development models, less developed
economies at an early stage of development are marked by a dichotomy between a modern
sector, in which workers are hired at an institutional wage in numbers that rise with the ...
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On the past and future of China's township and village-owned enterprises

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L Putterman - World Development, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an explanation of the historical success of industrial enterprises owned
by township and village governments in China. I argue that conditions peculiar to China's
prereform economy fostered the growth of a skilled workforce and high savings, created ...
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Income distribution, government transfers, and the problem of unequal influence

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WF Bassett, JP Burkett… - European Journal of Political …, 1999 - Elsevier
Several papers in the literature have posited that inequality hinders growth by leading to
high distorting taxes and transfers. We retest whether inequality and transfers are positively
linked, using several alternative definitions and data sets including new income data ...
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Some behavioral perspectives on the dominance of hierarchical over democratic forms of enterprise

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L Putterman - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper explores possible reasons why 'participatory'modes of organization,
whole potentially viable and preferable to 'hierarchical'modes for a large majority of workers,
may be dominated by the latter in capitalist market economies. After exploring the ...
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Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game

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A Ben-Ner, L Putterman, F Kong… - Journal of Economic Behavior …, 2004 - Elsevier
We conduct a dictator game experiment in which recipients in an initial game become
dictators in a second game. When the subjects paired remain the same, the amount sent
back is strongly correlated with the amount received despite the fact that the interaction is ...
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Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment?

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M Cinyabuguma, T Page… - Experimental Economics, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Recent experiments have shown that voluntary punishment of free riders can
increase contributions, mitigating the free-rider problem. But frequently punishers punish
high contributors, creating “perverse” incentives which can undermine the benefits of ...
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Productivity and organization in China's rural industries: A stochastic frontier analysis

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X Dong… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1997 - Elsevier
We use a stochastic production frontier approach to examine the technical efficiency of
Chinese township and village enterprises (TVEs) and variations in that efficiency. Our data
cover enterprises in 10 provinces in the years 1984 to 1989. We find that the average ...
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Soft budget constraints, social burdens, and labor redundancy in China's state industry

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XY Dong… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2003 - Elsevier
The soft budget constraint hypothesis of Kornai (1980) offers an attractive explanation of
over-manning in public enterprises. Sometimes overlooked in the literature is the fact that
governments, especially in transition economies, often use state-owned enterprises ( ...
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Why capital suppliers (usually) hire workers: What we know and what we need to know

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GK Dow… - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2000 - Elsevier
A fundamental question for economics is why large firms in market economies usually
assign control rights to capital suppliers rather than labor suppliers. A diverse collection of
answers can be found in the literature. But unfortunately little theoretical consensus has ...
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The ecology of collective action: A public goods and sanctions experiment with controlled group formation

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U Ones… - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2007 - Elsevier
Accumulating evidence suggests that the outcomes of laboratory public goods games reflect
individually differing preferences and beliefs. We designed a public goods experiment with
targeted punishment opportunities to (a) confirm subject heterogeneity,(b) test the stability ...
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Share and share alike? Gender-pairing, personality, and cognitive ability as determinants of giving

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A Ben-Ner, F Kong… - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004 - Elsevier
We conduct dictator game experiments in which women and men are allowed to split $10
with a completely unknown person or a person of known gender. Subjects also complete
personality and cognitive tests. We find that (a) gender information significantly affects ...
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Institutions and behavior: Experimental evidence on the effects of democracy

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P Dal Bó, A Foster… - 2008 - nber.org
A novel experiment is used to show that the effect of a policy on the level of cooperation is
greater when it is chosen democratically by the subjects than when it is exogenously
imposed. In contrast to the previous literature, our experimental design allows us to control ...
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Extrinsic versus intrinsic problems of agricultural cooperation: Anti‐incentivism in Tanzania and China

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L Putterman - The Journal of Development Studies, 1985 - Taylor & Francis
Peasant willingness to engage in collective farming, and the efficiency of collective farms
once established, may be preconditioned on local self‐determination, participatory control,
discriminating work incentives, and external manoeuvrability. In the absence of such ...
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On some implications of evolutionary psychology for the study of preferences and institutions

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A Ben-Ner… - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2000 - Elsevier
In many economic interactions, for instance in firms, the standard approximation of strict self-
interest is inadequate to modeling human behavior. A scientific theory of preferences,
grounded in evolutionary psychological and biological theory, can avoid resort to ad hoc ...
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[CITATION] Division of labor and welfare: An introduction to economic systems

LG Putterman - 1990 - getcited.org
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Economic reform and smallholder agriculture in Tanzania: A discussion of recent market liberalization, road rehabilitation, and technology dissemination efforts

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L Putterman - World Development, 1995 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the reforms affecting Tanzania's small-farm sector during 1984–1993.
It focuses on changes in marketing and input supply, including the revival of regional
cooperative societies, the ending of the state monopoly in food crop procurement, and ...
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[CITATION] Why have the rabble not redistributed the wealth? On the stability of democracy and unequal property

L Putterman - IEA CONFERENCE VOLUME …, 1996 - THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD
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Pre-and post-reform income distribution in a Chinese commune: the case of Dahe Township in Hebei Province

B Hsiung… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1989 - Elsevier
Abstract Inequality of earnings within a people's commune is examined using data for Dahe
Commune in Hebei Province, China, in the 1970s, along with data and reported results of
other surveys. These findings are then compared with inequality levels at Dahe in the ...
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The firm as association versus the firm as commodity

L Putterman - Economics and Philosophy, 1988 - Cambridge Univ Press
Recent years have seen the flowering of a new literature on the economic nature of firms
marked by a concern with their internal organization and contractual characteristics. Related
literatures on the principal-agent problem and the theory of financial markets have also ...
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Who to punish? Individual decisions and majority rule in mitigating the free rider problem

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A Ertan, T Page… - European Economic Review, 2009 - Elsevier
We study a voluntary contributions mechanism in which punishment may be allowed,
depending on subjects' voted rules. We found that out of 160 group votes, even when
groups had no prior experience with unrestricted punishment, no group ever voted to ...
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[HTML] Employment and wages in township, village, and other rural enterprises

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MM Pitt… - Enterprise reform in China: Ownership, …, 1999 - books.google.com
Rural nonagricultural production has been the fastest-growing sector of Chinas economy
since 1978. By 1989 rural industry accounted for 26 percent of China s industrial output and
employed 56 million people, about 25 percent more than the state sector. 1 Exports by ...
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Why capital (usually) hires labor: an assessment of proposed explanations

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G Dow… - Employees and corporate governance, 1999 - books.google.com
In the mid-nineteenth century, John Stuart Mill argued that once the working classes had
achieved a sufficient level of education and political emancipation, the capitalist employment
relationship would be superseded by a system of voluntarily formed producer ...
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Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment

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A Ben-Ner… - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009 - Elsevier
In the one-shot trust or investment game without opportunities for reputation formation or
contracting, economic theory predicts no trusting because there is no incentive for
trustworthiness. Under these conditions, theory predicts (a) no effect of pre-play ...
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[BOOK] State and Market in Development: Synergy Or Rivalry?

LG Putterman, D Rueschemeyer - 1992 - rienner.com
... Louis Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, editors. In the wake of the triumph of neoclassicism
in the development economics of the 1980s and the collapse of state socialist economies at the
end of that decade, reassessment of the role of the state in development is the order ...
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[PDF] On perverse and second-order punishment in public goods experiments with decentralized sanctioning

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M Cinyabuguma, T Page… - Brown University, Department …, 2004 - brown.edu
Abstract The fact that many people take it upon themselves to impose costly punishment on
free riders helps to explain why collective action sometimes succeeds despite the prediction
of received theory. But while individually imposed sanctions lead to higher contributions in ...
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Agriculture, diffusion and development: ripple effects of the Neolithic Revolution

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L Putterman - Economica, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Are the effects of the Neolithic revolution still impacting on incomes across the world today? I
find strong support for this proposition using new, country-specific estimates of the timing of
the agricultural transition and provide evidence that the differences are due to how ...
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[CITATION] Peasants, collectives, and choice: economic theory and Tanzania's villages

LG Putterman - 1986 - getcited.org
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Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness: An experimental study

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R Durante… - Brown University Department of …, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Why is there political support for progressive taxation and government transfers in
western democracies? We study the importance of fairness preferences, risk aversion, and
self-interest in determining support for redistribution by conducting a laboratory ...
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Early Starts, Reversals and Catch‐up in the Process of Economic Development*

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A Chanda… - The Scandinavian Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Early states like China and India have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent
decades. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic
history, and that the “reversal of fortune” associated with the European overseas ...
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Elasticities and factor weights for agricultural growth accounting: a look at the data for China

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L Putterman… - China Economic Review, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract We review factor weight assumptions used in four studies of trends in total factor
productivity (TFP) in Chinese agriculture, and factor elasticities estimated in 12 Chinese
agricultural production function studies. We find that econometric estimates of the output ...
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A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity: Reconsidering the private, unimodal solution

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L Putterman - World Development, 1983 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper identifies limitations of an agricultural structure of small, private farms as
a basis for rural growth with distributive equity, and points out potential advantages of
democratically-managed collectives characterized by flexibility with respect to production ...
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China's state-owned enterprises: their role, job creation, and efficiency in long-term perspective

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L Putterman… - Modern China, 2000 - JSTOR
Since the early 1990s, China's state-owned industrial sector has experienced severe and
increasing stress. When the reform process emerged in 1992 from its post-Tiananmen
doldrums, China's policy and rhetoric on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) began shifting ...
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Markets, hierarchies, and information: On a paradox in the economics of organization

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L Putterman - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1995 - Elsevier
The literature on the economics of organization presents the following paradox. On the one
hand, firms are said to be repositories of superior information about input characteristics. On
the other hand, markets are said to be superior to hierarchies in coordinating resource ...
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The incentive problem and the demise of team farming in China

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L Putterman - Journal of Development Economics, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper begins with a discussion of what can be inferred about the efficiency of
collective farming from the demise of team production in rural China. After reviewing the
formal literature on incentives in collective farms, it examines two problems that may have ...
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Voluntary collectivization: A model of producers' institutional choice

L Putterman - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1980 - Elsevier
Abstract The concept of democratic transition to rural collective socialism is analyzed by
modeling a village with both a collective farm and individual household plots. Labor is freely
allocated by each household, and both the division of land between sectors and the ...
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China's state-owned enterprises in the first reform decade: An analysis of a declining monopsony

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XY Dong… - Economics of planning, 2002 - Springer
We study the evolution of employment and wage outcomes in Chinese SOEs during the first
decade of economic reforms, using a panel of data for almost 1000 enterprises covering the
years 1980–90. Unlike the 1990s, which were marked by growing labor redundancy in the ...
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Post-1500 population flows and the long-run determinants of economic growth and inequality

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L Putterman… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every
country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using
the matrix to adjust indicators of early development so that they reflect the history of a ...
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Employee ownership: an empirical exploration

A Ben-Ner, WA Burns, G Dow… - The New Relationship: …, 2000 - books.google.com
In this chapter we study the empitical determinants of employee participation in
decisionmaking, financial returns, and ownership, using a unique data set that includes
information about the extent of employee involvement in firm decisionmaking, the ...
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[PDF] Trust in the New Economy1

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A Ben-Ner… - 2002 - legacy-irc.csom.umn.edu
What do trust and the economy have to do with each other? In a world of perfect and
symmetric information, where all related economic actions are simultaneous and occur in
one place, the economy runs in the familiar fashion of the perfectly competitive market. In ...
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Prereform industry and state monopsony in China

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XY Dong… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper concerns employment and wage determination in the state industrial sector in
China during the period preceding market-oriented economic reforms. We argue that in that
period, the sector as a whole faced an effective cost of labor that was increasing in ...
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The incentive effects of monitoring under alternative compensation schemes

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L Putterman… - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper examines the marginal incentive effect of monitoring under share and
wage payment schemes, using various assumptions concerning the risk preferences of
workers and the informational content of monitoring signals. The direction of this effect is ...
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Effort, productivity, and incentives in a 1970s Chinese people's commune

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L Putterman - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract A 1970s panel data set is used to test hypotheses regarding the impacts of
production team income distribution practices upon team labor supply and production levels
in the collective farming era. It is hypothesized that team members worked harder the ...
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Preindustrial and postwar economic development: Is there a link?

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JP Burkett, C Humblet… - Economic Development and Cultural …, 1999 - JSTOR
Everybody knows now that the “hardware” dimension of development-the physical
infrastructure, for example-is a lot easier to put in place than the “software” to keep it
operable, which depends on local skills and institutions.(United Nations Development ...
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The role of exit costs in the theory of cooperative teams

L Putterman… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract We study the scope for internal enforcement of efficient production in cooperative
firms when individual effort levels are unobservable and workers are able to exit the
production relationship. Our analysis, based on Abreu's (Econometrica 56, 2: 383–396, ...
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[CITATION] Agricultural producer co-operatives

L Putterman - 1991 - agris.fao.org
Go to AGRIS search. Agricultural producer co-operatives. Putterman,
L. Publisher, Oxford University Press, Oxford (United Kingdom). Date
of publication, 1991. AGRIS Categories, Cooperatives. ...
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Social capital and development capacity: the example of rural Tanzania

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L Putterman - Development Policy Review, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
1. This paper results from a research project on 'Institutional Renewal in Rural
Tanzania'funded by the Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) programme at the
University of Maryland, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.
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[CITATION] The restoration of the peasant household as farm production unit in China: some incentive theoretic analysis

LG Putterman… - 1984 - Brown University, Department of …
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[PDF] Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment

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A Ertan, T Page… - Brown University Department of …, 2005 - socionet.org
Abstract Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to
punish leads to higher contributions and reduces the free rider problem; however, a
substantial amount of punishment is targeted on high contributors. In the experiment ...
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China's rural industry and monopsony: An exploration

XY Dong… - Pacific Economic Review, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract. Despite spectacular output growth and significant employment creation, recent
findings suggest that China's TVEs are “under-employing”'labour relative to the competitive
benchmark. The paper reconfirms these findings on a new data set, discusses the ...
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Privatization and firm performance: A comparison between rural and urban enterprises in China

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X Dong, L Putterman… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
Using panel data on 165 rural and urban firms from Nanjing municipality and its environs,
we investigate the pattern and consequences of property rights reform and privatization in
the late 1990s. We find that privatization policies appear to have targeted the weakest ...
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Choice and efficiency in a model of democratic semi-collective agriculture

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L Putterman… - Oxford Economic Papers, 1985 - JSTOR
Would peasant farmers ever voluntarily decide to pool land and labor for collective
production, assuming self-interested behavior? This is the thesis espoused, at least on
occasion, by socialist theoreticians including Engels, Lenin, Mao, and Nyerere, ...
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Not just babble: Opening the black box of communication in a voluntary contribution experiment

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O Bochet… - European Economic Review, 2009 - Elsevier
We let subjects in a voluntary contribution experiment make non-binding numerical
announcements about their “possible” contributions and, in some treatments, send written
promises to contribute specific amounts. We find that announcements were responded to ...
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Productivity consequences of alternative land division methods in China's decollectivization An econometric analysis

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M Gaynor… - Journal of Development Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract In this paper we examine the productivity effect of the manner of distributing
collective land to households under the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s. During that
period, land was distributed by a formula putting weight on both household size and ...
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On the emergence of labour redundancy in China's state industry: findings from a 1980-1994 data panel

X Dong… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The need to lay off redundant employees emerged as an important policy issue in
urban China in the 1990s. The degree of over-manning can be estimated by comparing
estimates of the marginal product of labor with estimates of the full wage, including ...
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Can an evolutionary approach to development predict post‐war economic growth?

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L Putterman - The Journal of Development Studies, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Might differences in levels of development prior to the era of industrialisation explain some
of the dramatic differences in rates of economic growth across developing countries in
recent decades? This article explores the logic behind such a conjecture, and presents ...
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On optimality in collective institutional choice

L Putterman - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1981 - Elsevier
Abstract Conditions are investigated under which democratic choice of the division of land
between collective and “private” use and of the distribution of collective income between
“needs” and “work” payments will produce a Pareto-optimal land allocation and optimal ...
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[CITATION] Synergy or rivalry?

D Rueschemeyer… - State and Market in Development: Synergy or …, 1992
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Collectivization and China′ s Agricultural Crisis

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L Putterman… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Justin Lin′ s (1990) novel and striking hypothesis concerning the cause of the
1959-1961 famine and ensuing agricultural stagnation in China has prompted a broad
rethinking of the strategic and historical issues involved, with a consequent deepening of ...
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Incentives and the kibbutz: Toward an economics of communal work motivation

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L Putterman - Journal of Economics, 1983 - Springer
A major new literature on the economics of producers' cooperatives has appeared in the
past 15 years. This literature, initially stimulated by the Yugoslav model, has branched into
applications to Soviet and Chinese collective agricultures, manufacturing cooperatives set ...
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[CITATION] Fanmin Kong, and Dan Magan. 2004.“Reciprocity in a Two-Part Dictator Game.”

A Ben-Ner… - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
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[CITATION] Voluntary association in Public Goods experiments: Reciprocity, mimicry

T Page, L Putterman… - 2003 - and efficiency. Working paper.[rJH]
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[PDF] Share and share alike? Intelligence, socialization, personality, and gender-pairing as determinants of giving

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A Ben-Ner, F Kong… - J. Econ. Psychol, 2004 - legacy-irc.csom.umn.edu
Abstract We conduct dictator game experiments in which women and men are allowed to
split $10 with a completely unknown person or a person of known gender. Subjects also
complete personal background surveys, personality tests, and a cognitive test. We find ...
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The economic nature of the firm: a new introduction

L Putterman… - The economic nature of the firm: A …, 1996 - books.google.com
A decade ago, noticing the increasing attention being paid to questions of economic
organization and the nature of firms, we put together the initial version of this reader. At that
time, we noted the growing frequency of references to writings such as Ronald Coase's ...
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Enterprise restructuring and firm performance: A comparison of rural and urban enterprises in Jiangsu Province

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X Dong, L Putterman… - 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We examine the contrast in the experience of ownership reforms between urban
SOEs and rural TVEs using a panel of industrial enterprises in Nanjing municipality for the
period from 1994 to 2001. Our objectives are twofold. First, we study how the reform ...
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Does Poor Supervisibility Undermine Teamwork? Evidence from an Unexpected Source

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L Putterman - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
A central problem with the organization of team production is that, if individual effort
contributions are difficult to observe, feasible schemes for distributing the net product among
participants may suffer from poor work incentives. Thus, Armen Alchian and Harold ...
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Group farming and work incentives in collective-era China

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L Putterman - Modern China, 1988 - mcx.sagepub.com
This article will address the question of work incentives under the systems of group farming
that operated in China between 1955 and the early 1980s. Emphasis will be given to
material incentives at both individual and group levels, although other types of incentive ...
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[CITATION] The organization of work: Comment

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L Putterman - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1981 - ideas.repec.org
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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Ration subsidies and incentives in the pre-reform Chinese commune

L Putterman - Economica, 1988 - JSTOR
A major aspect of theegalitarianism'said to have undermined work incentives in Chinese
agricultural production teams during the 1960s and 1970s was the distribution of grain
rations independently of work contribution. Although a degree of suchneeds' orwork- ...
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[CITATION] Incentive problems favoring noncentralized investment fund ownership

L Putterman - 1993 - New York: Oxford University Press
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Lavish returns on cheap talk: non-binding communication in a trust experiment

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A Ben-Ner, L Putterman… - Working Papers, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We let subjects interact with anonymous partners in trust (investment) games with
and without one of two kinds of pre-play communication: numerical (tabular) only, and verbal
and numerical. We find that either kind of pre-play communication increases trusting, ...
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Incentives and monitoring in cooperatives with labor-proportionate sharing schemes

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P Bonin John… - Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract We study the effect of monitoring on work effort in cooperatives in which net
revenue is shared, at least partially, in proportion to measured effort. Results for two differing
depictions of the technology of monitoring are presented. We find that the hypothesis that ...
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[PDF] The Quest for Development

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A Chanda… - World Economics, World Economics, …, 2004 - econ.brown.edu
An idea that has recently found its way back into writings on economic growth is that the
capability for modern growth may vary among societies for historical and cultural reasons
that may ultimately be linked to their long-run economic experience. That there may exist ...
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China's collectivisation puzzle: A new resolution

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JKS Kung… - The Journal of Development Studies, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
According to total factor productivity trends in Chinese agriculture, China achieved
productivity gains both when collectivising (1954–58) and when decollectivising (1979–84)
its agriculture. If the productivity gains from decollectivisation were due mainly to ...
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Institutional Boundaries, Structural Change, and Economic Reform in China: An Introduction

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L Putterman - Modern China, 1992 - JSTOR
Is China on its way to becoming the first centrally planned economy to successfully navigate
the transition to a market-based system under Communist auspices? Or have reforms
permanently stalled at an inefficient juncture, halfway between the two worlds? Is general ...
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Entering the post-collective era in North China: Dahe township

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L Putterman - Modern China, 1989 - JSTOR
Dahe Township is located in the southwestern part of Hebei Province, 15 kilometers west-
northwest of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, and 10 kilometers northeast of the seat of
the county to which it belongs, Huailu.'In 1979-1980 and again in 1986, Dahe was the site ...
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Reforming China's SOEs: An Overview

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W Li… - Comparative Economic Studies, 2008 - palgrave-journals.com
Abstract After three decades of reform, state ownership still plays a significant if diminishing
role in China's industrial sector. We survey studies that focus on the impact of reform on
China's SOEs both during the early reform years from 1979 to 1992 and during the years ...
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[PDF] Investigating the rise of labor redundancy in China's state industry

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X Dong… - Working Papers, 2000 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract: We investigate the causes of rising labor redundancy in China's state industry,
using a panel of data for about 700 enterprises covering the years 1990-1994. We find that
over-manning emerged as a widespread phenomenon in industrial SOEs in the early ...
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[CITATION] On some recent explanations of why capital hires labor

L Putterman - L. Putterman, The Economic Nature of the Firm: A …, 1986
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FACTORS BEHIND THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR LESS ALIENATING WORK, AND SOME INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS•

M Rosner… - … the individual: continuity and change in …, 1992 - books.google.com
Jobs that engender a high degree of intrinsic work satisfaction through the development and
utilization of skills, the exercise of individual initiative, and participation in shaping the work
process, provide those employed in them with something desired, by at least some ...
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[BOOK] State effectiveness, economic growth, and the age of states

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A Chanda… - 2005 - books.google.com
In the late twentieth century, makers of maps and atlases faced the challenge of keeping up
with numerous changes in countries' names and borders. One thing remained a constant,
however: find a piece of inhabited territory, and it was certain to belong to some country or ...
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Corporate governance, risk-bearing and economic power: A comment on recent work by Oliver Williamson

L Putterman - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics ( …, 1987 - JSTOR
This paper presents a critical comment on Oliver Williamson's recent [1984, 1985] writings
on corporate governance, in which he argues that providers of equity obtain ultimate control
over firms as a safeguard against misuse and expropriation of exposed assets. ...
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[PDF] Trust, communication and contracts: Experimental evidence

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A Ben-Ner… - Working Papers, 2006 - systemsci.org
Abstract We introduce opportunities for pre-play communication and to enter binding or non-
binding contracts in trust games, and find (a) communication increases trusting and
trustworthiness,(b) contracts are unnecessary for trusting and trustworthy behaviors and ...
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[CITATION] Theoretical and Empirical Research on the Labour Managed Firm: Will the Twain Ever Meet?

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J Bonin, D Jones… - Journal of Economic Literature, 1993
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People's Republic of China: systemic and structural change in a north China township

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L Putterman - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Decentralization of decision making, bolstering of incentives to individual producers,
proliferation of varied organizational forms of rural production, and the sanctioning of market
activity alongside traditional state procurement and distribution have proceeded rapidly ...
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The economic nature of the firm

RS Kroszner… - Cambridge Books, 2009 - econpapers.repec.org
This book brings together classic writings on the economic nature and organization of firms,
including works by Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson, and Michael Jensen and William
Meckling, as well as more recent contributions by Paul Milgrom, Bengt Holmstrom, John ...
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