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The Private and Social Value of Information and the Reward to Inventive Activity
- J. Hirshleifer
- Economics
- 1971
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the private and social value of information along with the reward of inventive activity. The individual is always fully acquainted with the supply–demand… Expand
Conflict and rent-seeking success functions: Ratio vs. difference models of relative success
- J. Hirshleifer
- Economics
- 1 November 1989
The rent-seeking competitions studied by economists fall within a much broader category of conflict interactions that also includes military combats, election campaigns, industrial disputes,… Expand
From weakest-link to best-shot: The voluntary provision of public goods
- J. Hirshleifer
- Economics
- 1983
It has traditionally been assumed that the socially available amount X of a public good is the simple sum of the separate amounts xi produced by the i = 1, ..., I members of the community. But there… Expand
On the Economics of Transfer Pricing
- J. Hirshleifer
- Economics
- 1956
TN ORDER to achieve the benefits of decentralization in decision-making, many corporations have developed divisional organizations in which some or all of the separate divisions are virtually… Expand
The analytics of uncertainty and information
- J. Hirshleifer, J. Riley
- Economics
- 1992
There has been explosive progress in the economic theory of uncertainty and information in the past few decades. This subject is now taught not only in departments of economics but also in… Expand
The analytics of continuing conflict
- J. Hirshleifer
- Sociology
- Synthese
- 1 August 1988
Individuals, groups, or nations — if rational and self-interested — will be balancing on the margin between two alternative ways of generating income: (1) “peaceful” production and exchange, versus… Expand
The Macrotechnology of Conflict
- J. Hirshleifer
- Economics
- 1 December 2000
Decision makers must balance between two classes of economic activities: production and conflict. Analogous to the familiar technology of production and exchange is the technology of conflict and… Expand
On the Theory of Optimal Investment Decision
- J. Hirshleifer
- Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 August 1958
This article is an attempt to solve (in the theoretical sense), through the use of isoquant analysis, the problem of optimal investment decisions (in business parlance, the problem of capital… Expand