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• Art museum attendance, public funding, and the business cycle 

  There are a number of important problems in contemporary museum finance, and this article identifies yet another possible difficulty. An aggregate...

  American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The, 04/01/09 by Sarah J. Skinner; Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; John D. Jackson · More from publication

• Marginal deterrence and multiple murders 

  This paper examines empirically the state-level impact of capital punishment on multiple murder rates for the period 1995-1999. In baseline...

  Southern Economic Journal, 01/01/06 by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. · More from publication

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 

  Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: William Morrow, 2005.242...

  Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 01/01/06 by Ekelund, Robert B Jr · More from publication

• The economics of the counter-reformation: incumbent-firm reaction to market entry 

  The Catholic Church reacted to the Protestant Reformation by taking on the defensive posture of an incumbent-firm monopoly fighting to survive in...

  Economic Inquiry, 10/01/04 by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr · More from publication

• Preliminary evidence on unbundled elements demand in local telephony 

  The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent local exchange carriers to offer elements of their networks to competitors to promote...

  Atlantic Economic Journal, 12/01/02 by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. · More from publication

• The personal economics of smoking cessation 

  SCHOLARSHIP ABSTRACT The social costs and benefits of smoking cessation have been treated extensively in the literature but surprisingly personal...

  Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 11/01/02 by Ault, Richard W; Ekelund, Robert B Jr · More from publication

• An Exploration of the Beckerian Theory of Time Costs: Symphony Concert Demand 

  ABSTRACT. The passage of time has long been known to have economic effects. The most important effect in the arts has heretofore been the so-called...

  American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The, 10/01/99 by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. · More from publication

• Critical thinking: some problems with the matrix method.(Brief Article) 

  In the previous article, Peterson and Bean (1998) argue that the matrix method, which uses a two-dimensional matrix as the organizing core of the...

  Journal of Economic Education, The, 06/22/98 by Ekelund, Robert B., Jr.; Hebert, Robert F. · More from publication

• Critical thinking: some problems with the matrix method. 

  The matrix method, which uses a two-dimensional organizational core, is a problematic means of instructing economics students. Although it does...

  Journal of Economic Education, The, 06/22/98 by Ekelund, Robert B., Jr.; Hebert, Robert F. · More from publication

• Capital and Wages: A Lakatosian History of the Wages Fund Doctrine 

  The central problem is the following. Lakatosian concepts, which Vint adopts, include a hard core of theory (in this case wages fund theory), a...

  Southern Economic Journal, 01/01/96 by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. · More from publication