Professors and their politics: The policy views of social scientists
- D. Klein, Charlotta Stern
- Sociology
- 1 June 2005
Abstract Academic social scientists overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and the Democratic hegemony has increased significantly since 1970. Moreover, the policy preferences of a large sample of the…
Reputation : studies in the voluntary elicitation of good conduct
- D. Klein
- History
- 1997
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest," wrote Benjamin Franklin. This volume explores ways in which the honest establish trust and enjoy good fortune,…
Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation
- D. Klein
- Economics
- 27 January 2012
Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek saw the liberty principle as focal and accorded it strong presumption, but their wisdom invokes how little we can know. In Knowledge and Coordination, Daniel Klein…
Groupthink in Academia: Majoritarian Departmental Politics and the Professional Pyramid
- D. Klein, Charlotta Stern
- Psychology
- 22 March 2009
Although academia differs from the settings explored by groupthink theorists, it exhibits many of the same tendencies and failings. One result is the relative absence of classical-liberal and conse…
Faculty partisan affiliations in all disciplines: A voter‐registration study
- C. Cardiff, D. Klein
- Education
- 1 June 2005
Abstract The party registration of tenure‐track faculty at 11 California universities, ranging from small, private, religiously affiliated institutions to large, public, elite schools, shows that the…
A Game-Theoretic Rendering of Promises and Threats
- D. Klein, B. O'Flaherty
- Computer Science
- 1 August 1993
Convention, Social Order, and the Two Coordinations
- D. Klein
- Economics
- 1 December 1997
The word “coordination” has two meanings, and thesemeanings are often conflated. One meaning, associated with ThomasSchelling, is seen in situations like choosing whether to driveon the left or the…
Discovery and the Deepself
- D. Klein
- Economics
- 3 February 2004
Mainstream economists-Neoclassicals, in the narrow sense-have from time to time remarked on Israel Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurship. They have maintained that Kirzner says things that do not fit…
Political diversity in six disciplines
- D. Klein, C. Stern, Andrew Western
- Education
- 1 March 2005
The Voluntary Provision of Public Goods? The Turnpike Companies of Early America
- D. Klein
- History, Economics
- 1 March 1990
The heroic role of the agent called "government" in the simple public-goods model is clear enough, but the relevance of the model is still in dispute. A long history of doubters have challenged the…
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