Lee J. Alston

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• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (weight: 10%)
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• Indiana University / Department of Economics (weight: 90%)
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• Farm Foreclosure Moratorium Legislation: A Lesson from the Past (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:74:y:1984:i:3:p:445-57)
  by Alston, Lee J
• Farm Failures and Government Intervention: A Case Study of the 1930' s (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:77:y:1987:i:4:p:724-30)
  by Rucker, Randal R & Alston, Lee J
• Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State (RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:83:y:1993:i:4:p:852-76)
  by Alston, Lee J & Ferrie, Joseph P
• THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS: A CASE STUDY OF THE 1930's (RePEc:ags:ncbuar:259419)
  by Rucker, Randal R. & Alston, Lee J.
• Legal Reserve Requirements in Brazilian Forests: Path Dependent Evolution of De Facto Legislation (RePEc:anp:econom:v:8:y:2007:i:4:25_53)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• Coalitional Stability and the Gains From Trade Between the Executive and the Legislature in Brazil (RePEc:anp:en2001:057)
  by Bernardo Pinheiro Machado Mueller & Lee Alston
• Legal Reserve Requirements In Brazilian Forests: Path Dependent Evolution Of De Facto Legislation (RePEc:anp:en2007:147)
  by Bernardo Mueller & Lee J. Alston
• The Choices Governors Make: The Roles of Checks and Balances and Political Competition (RePEc:anp:en2008:200807181549410)
  by Bernardo Mueller & Lee Alston & Carlos Pereira & Marcus Melo
• De Facto And De Jure Property Rights:Land Settlement And Land Conflict On The Brazilian Frontier In The 19thcentury (RePEc:anp:en2010:060)
  by Bernardo Mueller & Lee Alston & Edwyna Harris
• Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs Anddissipative Inclusion In Brazil (RePEc:anp:en2012:076)
  by Bernardo Mueller & Lee Alston & Marcus Melo & Carlos Pereira
• Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence (RePEc:anr:reseco:v:5:y:2013:p:139-159)
  by Lee J. Alston & Krister Andersson & Steven M. Smith
• De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers (RePEc:auu:dpaper:607)
  by Lee J. Alston & Edwyna Harris & Bernardo Mueller
• Technological choice and the organization of work in capitalist firms (RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:45:y:1992:i:2:p:330-349)
  by Paul L. Robertson & Lee J. Alston
• Priests, Conflicts and Property Rights: the Impacts on Tenancy and Land Use in Brazil (RePEc:bpj:maneco:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:26:n:4)
  by Alston Lee J. & Mueller Bernardo
• Brazilian Development: This Time for Real? (RePEc:ces:ifofor:v:12:y:2011:i:01:p:37-46)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• 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 (RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:53:y:1979:i:04:p:544-546_03)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924–1933. ByDavid C. Wheelock · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv + 126 pp. Tables, charts, appendix, notes, bibliogr (RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:67:y:1993:i:02:p:323-324_07)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Empirical Studies in Institutional Change (RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521553131)
  by None
• Empirical Studies in Institutional Change (RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521557436)
  by None
• Institutional and Organizational Analysis (RePEc:cup:cbooks:9781107086371)
  by Alston,Eric & Alston,Lee J. & Mueller,Bernardo & Nonnenmacher,Tomas
• Institutional and Organizational Analysis (RePEc:cup:cbooks:9781107451254)
  by Alston,Eric & Alston,Lee J. & Mueller,Bernardo & Nonnenmacher,Tomas
• A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil (RePEc:cup:endeec:v:4:y:1999:i:02:p:135-160_00)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Libecap, Gary D. & Mueller, Bernardo
• Costs of Contracting and the Decline of Tenancy in the South, 1930–1960 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:39:y:1979:i:01:p:324-326_09)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:42:y:1982:i:02:p:327-353_02)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Higgs, Robert
• 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 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:43:y:1983:i:02:p:531-532_03)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:43:y:1983:i:04:p:885-903_03)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Inheritance Laws Across Colonies: Causes and Consequences (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:44:y:1984:i:02:p:277-287_03)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Schapiro, Morton Owen
• Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture: A Constraint on the Growth of the Welfare State (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:45:y:1985:i:01:p:95-117_03)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Ferrie, Joseph P.
• 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 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:45:y:1985:i:04:p:1003-1005_03)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont. By Charles E. OrserJr, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 322. $35. (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:50:y:1990:i:01:p:219-220_03)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925–1941 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:51:y:1991:i:01:p:83-99_03)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Hatton, T. J.
• Contracting for Property Rights. By Gary D. Libecap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 132. $39.50 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:51:y:1991:i:02:p:517-518_03)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• General and Miscellaneous - On the Search for Well-Being. By Henry J. Bruton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. x, 227. $37.50, cloth (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:58:y:1998:i:03:p:914-916_02)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• 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, 3 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:58:y:1998:i:04:p:1175-1176_02)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890–1938 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:65:y:2005:i:04:p:1058-1081_00)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Ferrie, Joseph P.
• Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:66:y:2006:i:03:p:674-706_00)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Jenkins, Jeffery A. & Nonnenmacher, Tomas
• Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915 (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:69:y:2009:i:01:p:104-137_00)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Mattiace, Shannan & Nonnenmacher, Tomas
• The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:72:y:2012:i:03:p:741-770_00)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Harris, Edwyna & Mueller, Bernardo
• Beyond Institutions: Beliefs and Leadership (RePEc:cup:jechis:v:77:y:2017:i:02:p:353-372_00)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• 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 (RePEc:cup:jhisec:v:18:y:1996:i:01:p:154-156_00)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• The economics of rural organization: Theory, practice and policy : Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993) (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:47:y:1995:i:2:p:502-504)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• 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 (RePEc:eee:deveco:v:70:y:2003:i:1:p:235-238)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Tenure choice in Southern agriculture, 1930-1960 (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:18:y:1981:i:3:p:211-232)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:31:y:1994:i:4:p:409-431)
  by Alston Lee J. & Grove Wayne A. & Wheelock David C.
• Competition and the Compensation of Sharecroppers by Race: A View from Plantations in the Early Twentieth Century (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:38:y:2001:i:1:p:181-194)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Kauffman, Kyle D.
• Social reformers and regulation: the prohibition of cigarettes in the United States and Canada (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:39:y:2002:i:4:p:425-445)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Dupre, Ruth & Nonnenmacher, Tomas
• Electoral fraud, the rise of Peron and demise of checks and balances in Argentina (RePEc:eee:exehis:v:47:y:2010:i:2:p:179-197)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Gallo, Andrés A.
• Changing social contracts: Beliefs and dissipative inclusion in Brazil (RePEc:eee:jcecon:v:41:y:2013:i:1:p:48-65)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Melo, Marcus Andre & Mueller, Bernardo & Pereira, Carlos
• Resource coordination and transaction costs : A framework for analyzing the firm/market boundary (RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:11:y:1989:i:2:p:191-212)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Gillespie, William
• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance : Douglass C. North, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1990) pp. viii+152, hardcover $32.50, paper $10.95 (RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:18:y:1992:i:1:p:142-144)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms markets, relational contracting : Oliver E. Williamson, (The Free Press, New York, 1985) pp. xiv + 450, $25.00 (RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:8:y:1987:i:2:p:316-318)
  by Alston, Lee J.
• Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict, and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (RePEc:eee:jeeman:v:39:y:2000:i:2:p:162-188)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Libecap, Gary D. & Mueller, Bernardo
• Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for REDD+ (RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:72:y:2018:i:c:p:510-522)
  by Andersson, Krister P. & Smith, Steven M. & Alston, Lee J. & Duchelle, Amy E. & Mwangi, Esther & Larson, Anne M. & de Sassi, Claudio & Sills, Erin O. & Sunderlin, William D. & Wong, Grace Y.
• Land, property rights and privatization in Brazil (RePEc:eee:quaeco:v:34:y:1994:i:supplement1:p:261-280)
  by Mueller, Bernardo & Alston, Lee & Libecap, Gary D. & Schneider, Robert
• Property Rights, Land Settlement and Land Conflict on Frontiers: Evidence from Australia, Brazil and the US (RePEc:elg:eechap:13202_1)
  by Lee J. Alston & Edwyna Harris & Bernardo Mueller
• The impact of paternalism on racial land rental differences in the USA (RePEc:elg:eechap:1921_14)
  by Lee J. Alston & Kyle D. Kauffman
• Institutions and property rights across time and space: lessons from Eastern Europe and Latin America (RePEc:elg:eechap:2154_13)
  by Lee J. Alston & Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
• "Wages and the Intensity of Labor Effort: Efficiency Wages Versus Compensating Payments" (RePEc:fth:caland:92-43)
  by Fairris, D. & Alston, L.J.
• How Interest Groups with Limited Resources can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil (RePEc:icr:wpicer:15-2005)
  by Lee J. Alston & Gary D. Libecap & Bernardo Mueller
• The Political Economy of Productivity in Brazil (RePEc:idb:brikps:1123)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Mueller, Bernardo & Melo, Marcus André & Pereira, Carlos
• Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil (RePEc:idb:brikps:3365)
  by Alston, Lee J. & Melo, Marcus André & Mueller, Bernardo & Pereira, Carlos
• Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies (RePEc:idb:idbbks:329)
  by Spiller, Pablo T. & Stein, Ernesto H. & Tommasi, Mariano & Scartascini, Carlos & Alston, Lee J. & Melo, Marcus André & Mueller, Bernardo & Pereira, Carlos & Aninat, Cristóbal & Londregan, John & Navia
• El juego político en América Latina: ¿Cómo se deciden las políticas públicas? (RePEc:idb:idbbks:332)
  by Scartascini, Carlos & Spiller, Pablo T. & Stein, Ernesto H. & Tommasi, Mariano & Alston, Lee J. & Melo, Marcus André & Mueller, Bernardo & Pereira, Carlos & Aninat, Cristóbal & Londregan, John & Navia
• Who Decides the Budget? A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America (RePEc:idb:idbbks:6725)
  by Scartascini, Carlos & Stein, Ernesto H. & Abuelafia, Emmanuel & Berensztein, Sergio & Braun, Miguel & Di Gresia, Luciano & Alston, Lee J. & Melo, Marcus André & Mueller, Bernardo & Pereira, Carlos & C
• Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil (RePEc:idb:wpaper:3199)
  by Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira & Marcus André Melo & Lee J. Alston
• Why Countries Transition? The Case of Brazil, 1964–2016 (RePEc:kap:atlecj:v:44:y:2016:i:2:d:10.1007_s11293-016-9498-2)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marcus André Melo & Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira
• Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada (RePEc:nbr:nberhi:0131)
  by Lee J. Alston & Ruth Dupre & Tomas Nonnenmacher
• Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938 (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:11231)
  by Lee J. Alston & Joseph P. Ferrie
• Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:11273)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873 (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:11908)
  by Lee J. Alston & Jeffery A. Jenkins & Tomas Nonnenmacher
• Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915 (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:13852)
  by Lee Alston & Shannan Mattiace & Tomas Nonnenmacher
• Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15209)
  by Lee J. Alston & Andrés A. Gallo
• De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15264)
  by Lee J. Alston & Edwyna Harris & Bernardo Mueller
• Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15771)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:15865)
  by Lee J. Alston & Gary D. Libecap & Bernardo Mueller
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:16756)
  by Lee J. Alston & Krister Andersson
• Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:18588)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marcus Melo & Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira
• Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:18740)
  by Lee J. Alston & Krister Andersson & Steven M. Smith
• Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014 (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:21988)
  by Lee Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Critical Transitions (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:22144)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marcus André Melo & Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira
• Leadership and Organizations (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28927)
  by Eric Alston & Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• Property Rights in Historical Political Economy: When do Wedges Wither? (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29991)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30251)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marie Christine Duggan & Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana
• New Institutional Economics and Cliometrics (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30924)
  by Eric C. Alston & Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:5405)
  by Lee J. Alston & Gary D. Libecap & Robert Schneider
• Evolution and Revolution in the Argentine Banking System under Convertibility: The Roles of Crises and Path Dependence (RePEc:nbr:nberwo:8008)
  by Lee J. Alston & Andres Gallo
• The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations (RePEc:now:jnlhpe:115.00000039)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marie Christine Duggan & Julio A. Ramos Pastrana
• The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier (RePEc:oup:jleorg:v:12:y:1996:i:1:p:25-61)
  by Alston, Lee J & Libecap, Gary D & Schneider, Robert
• Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil (RePEc:oup:jleorg:v:22:y:2006:i:1:p:87-114)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• Introduction (RePEc:pup:chapts:10745-1)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marcus André Melo & Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira
• Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change (RePEc:pup:pbooks:10745)
  by Lee J. Alston & Marcus André Melo & Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira
• Property Rights and the State (RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-25092-2_23)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• The New Institutional Economics and Cliometrics (RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-35583-7_111)
  by Eric Alston & Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• Property Rights and the State (RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-69305-5_23)
  by Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller
• The Political Economy of Bank Reform in Argentina Under Convertibility (RePEc:taf:jpolrf:v:5:y:2002:i:1:p:1-16)
  by Lee Alston & Andrés Gallo
• Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with Transactions Costs (RePEc:ucp:jpolec:v:92:y:1984:i:6:p:1121-33)
  by Alston, Lee J & Datta, Samar K & Nugent, Jeffrey B
• Wages And The Intensity Of Labor Effort: Efficiency Wages Versus Compensating Payments (RePEc:wil:wileco:138)
  by Fairris, D. & Alston, L.J.