John Brätland
Latest work
Volume 12, Number 4 (2009) In his 1997 book, Guns, Germs and Steel , Jared Diamond attributes the ascendancy and triumphs of certain societies to geographical and environmental advantages. But given...
Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring 2000) The Hotelling Principle defines socially-optimal conservation of an exhaustible resource i a mathematically-defined, equilibrium environment in which no human action can...
Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring 2011) The winner’s curse was “discovered” in low rates of return on certain types of capital goods acquired in auctions or negotiated acquisitions. The inference was that...