Economics Faculty



Richard Adelstein



Office: PAC 419

Telephone: x2366
     (From off-campus: 860-685-2366)

Office Hours: W 11:00- noon 2:10-4:00 pm

E-Mail: radelstein@wesleyan.edu




Current Research Interests: Economics of Law, American Economic History, History of Economic Thought, Spontaneous Social Order


 

Recent Publications: 
  "Toward a Comparative Economics of Plea Bargaining," 11 European Journal of Law and Economics (January 2001), pp. 47-67 (with Thomas Miceli).     

"Victims as Cost Bearers," 3 Buffalo Criminal Law Review (1999), pp. 131-173.   Translated by K. Klein and reprinted as "Opfer als Kostenträger," in B.Schünemann and M. D. Dubber, eds., Die Stellung des Opfers im Strafrechtssystem: Neue Entwicklungen in Deutschland und den USA, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Köln, (2000), pp. 139-173.

"The Origins of Property and the Powers of Government," in W. J. Samuels and N. Mercuro, eds., The Fundamental Interrelationships Between Govern-ment and Property, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT (1999), pp. 25-35.

Four entries in P. Newman, ed., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Macmillan, London (1998):

    "American Institutional Economics and the Legal System," I: pp. 61-66;
          "John Rogers Commons," I: pp. 324-327;
          "Richard Theodore Ely," II: pp. 28-29;
          "Plea Bargaining: A Comparative Approach," III: pp. 46-50.

"Language Orders," 7 Constitutional Political Economy (Fall 1996), pp. 221-238.

Work in Progress :
  "Scientific Management and the Planner's Problem."  This is a manuscript in the history of economic thought dealing with Frederick Winslow Taylor's effort to create an objective science of work.



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