Selected papers and articles
"Where have you gone, Bill Bailey?"
The Boston Globe, January 14, 2008
“Individualism and Scarcity,” in S Cullenberg and P K Pattanaik, Globalization, Culture, and the Limits of the Market: Essays in Economics and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003) French translation: “Individualisme et Rareté,” in P Dockès, Ordre et Désordres dans l’Économie-Monde (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2002)
“Keynes Without Nominal Rigidities,” (Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper 1907, November, 2000)
“John Kenneth Galbraith and the Myths of Economics,” in H Sasson (ed.), Between Friends: Perspectives on John Kenneth Galbraith (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1999)
“How the Economy is Constructed: On Scarcity and Desire,” in A Solimano (ed.) Social Inequality: Values, Growth, & the State (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1998)
"Farmers, Seedsmen, and Scientists: Systems of Agriculture and Systems of Knowledge" in F. Apffel Marglin and S. Marglin (eds.) Decolonizing Knowledge (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996)
"Why is So Little Left of the Left?" Z Papers, October-December, 1992
"Understanding Capitalism: Control vs Efficiency," in Bo Gustafsson (ed.), Power and Economic Institutions (Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1991)
"Towards the Decolonization of the Mind," in F. Apffel Marglin and S. Marglin (eds.), Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990)
"Losing Touch: The Cultural Conditions of Worker Accommodation and Resistance," in F. Apffel Marglin and S. Marglin (eds.), Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990)
"Lessons of the Golden Age," in S. Marglin and J. Schor (eds.) The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990)
"Profit Squeeze and Keynesian Theory," (with Amit Bhaduri) in S. Marglin and J. Schor (eds.) The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990)
"Investment and Accumulation,” in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 2 (Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1987)
"Growth, Distribution, and Inflation: A Centennial Synthesis," Cambridge Journal of Economics, July 1984
"The Wealth of Nations" (a review of I.M.D. Little, Economic Development), New York Review, July 19, 1984
"Knowledge and Power," in F. Stephens (ed.), Firms, Organization and Labour (Macmillan, London, 1984)
"Catching Flies with Honey: An Inquiry into Management Initiatives to Humanize Work," Economic Analysis and Workers' Management, 1979. French translation in X. Greffe and J. L. Reiffers (eds.), L'Occident en Desarroi (Dunod, Paris, 1978)
"La Crise Mondiale du Capitalisme: Causes Americaines et Consequences Americaines," Le Nouvel Observateur, Numero 8, Hors Serie, Special "Economie," 1975
"What Do Bosses Do?" in two parts in Review of Radical Political Economics, Part I in Summer, 1974 issue; Part II Winter, 1975. Japanese translation in Masahiko Aoki (ed.) Radical Economics: Economies of Hierarchies (Chuokoron-Sha, Tokyo, 1973). French translation in Andre Gorz (ed.), Critique de la Division du Travail (Seuil, Paris, 1974). Also translated into Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
"Investment and Interest: A Reformulation and Extension of Keynesian Theory," Economic Journal, December 1970
"The Discount Rate in Public Investment Evaluation," in The Discount Rate in Public Investment Evaluation, Conference Proceedings, Western Agricultural Economics Research Council, Denver, December, 1968
"Information in Price and Command Systems of Planning," in J. Margolis and H. Guitton (eds.) Public Economics (Macmillan, London, 1969)
"Problems in Irrigation Planning and Research: India and West Pakistan," in W. Morehouse (ed.), Science and the Human Condition, in India and Pakistan (Rockefeller University Press, New York, 1968)
"The Rate of Interest and the Value of Capital with Unlimited Supplies of Labor," (Published in the Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on Industrial Project Evaluation, Prague, October, 1965)
Published also in K. Shell (ed.) Essays on the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1967)
"Mr. Jorgenson Against the Classics: Testing the Surplus Labor Hypothesis," in I. Adelman and E. Thorbecke (eds.), Theory and Practice of Economic Development (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1966)
"Towards a Revolution in Agriculture," in Economic Weekly, Fifteenth Annual Number, Bombay, February, 1964
"The Opportunity Costs of Public Investment," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1963
"The Social Rate of Discount and the Optimal Rate of Investment," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 1963
What do bosses do?