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Craig Freedman - Publications

Books

Freedman, C. and Szostak, R. (eds.) (2003) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing.

Freedman, C. (ed.) (2001) Economic Reform in Japan: Can the Japanese Change?, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Freedman, C. (ed.) (2000) Japanese Economic Policy Reconsidered, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Freedman, C. (ed.) (1999) Why did Japan Stumble?- Causes and Cures, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

2007 "Japan", in Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam (eds.) Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies. Celtenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 17-41.

2007 "If Corporate Governance is the Answer, What is the Question? The Illusory Relation between Structural Solutions and Japanese Deflation", Economics and Labour Relations Review 17(2): 25-35.

2004 with Geoffrey Harcourt and Peter Kriesler, "Has the Long Run Phillips Curve Turned Horizontal?" in George Argyrous, Gary Mongiovi and Mat Forstater (eds.) Growth, Distribution, and Effective Demand: Essays in Honour of Edward Nell. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp.144-162.

2004 with Alexander Blair, "Are Japanese Multinationals Different? Technology Transfer in the Asian Region", in René Haak and Dennis Tachiki (eds.) Regional Strategies in a Global Economy: Multinational Corporations in East Asia. Frankfurt: Luducium, pp.141-166.

2003 "George Stigler as a Dissertation Supervisor". The Journal of Economic Education, 34(3): 282-291.

2003 "The Narcissistic Science" in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp.3-14.

2003 "Economic Nostrums and Economic Practices - Accountability in Economic Journals" in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp.131-158.

2003 "Economic Textbooks - Missing and Misplaced Incentives" in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp.159-172.

2003 "Why Economists Can't Read" (Reprinted) in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak (eds.) Tales of Narcissus - The Looking Glass of Economic Science. Armonk, New York: Nova Science Publishing, pp. 105-122.

2002 The Xistence of Definitional Economics: Stigler's and Leibenstein's War of the Words, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(2):161-179.

2002 "The Collapse of the Low Risk, Middle Class Society". The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 13(2): 288-325.

2001 "When Change is not Reform - Transforming the Japanese Economy". in Craig Freedman (ed.), Can the Japanese Change? - Economic Reform in Japan. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-19.

2001 "When Truth is Not Beauty, Nor Beauty Truth",A Review Article of Rick Szostak, "Econ Art - Divorcing Art from Science in Modern Economics", History of Economics Review 33(Winter): 96-101.

2000 "Do Economic Journals Obey Economic Prescriptions?", The Review of Industrial Organization 17(4): 371-384.

Macquarie Economics Research Papers

May 2004 "Power without Glory – George Stigler's Market Leviathan"

Sep 2001 "Do Great Economists Make Great Teachers? – George Stigler as a Dissertation Supervisor"

Oct 1998 "Choosing the Right Textbook – An Agency Problem"

Oct 1998 "The Xistence of Definitional Economics: Stigler's and Leibenstein's War of the Words"

Jul 1997 "The Invisible Mr.Keynes - Empirical versus Theoretical Arguments"

Nov 1996 "Do Economic Journals Obey Economic Prescriptions?  The Case of Academic Referees"

Aug 1996 "Countervailing Egos - Stigler versus Galbraith"

Dec 1995 "No end to Means - George Stigler's profit motive"

Centre for Japanese Economic Studies Research Papers

April 2006 (with Luke Nottage), "You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: The Chicago School of Law and Economics Comes to Japan"

February 2006, "Post-war Japan"

January 2006, "Free Trade or Free Trade Agreements?"

September 2003 (with Alex Blair), "Flawed Assumptions - Japanese Corporate Governance and its Relation to Macroeconomic Policy"

August 2000, "The Collapse of the Riskless, Middle-class Economy"

November 1998, "The Influence of Culture on Corporate Structure"

October 1998, "Arigato-An Economic History of the Japanese Import Invasion into the US"