Publications of Steven G. Medema

Books

  1. Caldari, K; Dardi, M; Medema, SG, Introduction (January, 2021), pp. v
  2. Samuels, WJ; Medema, SG, Gardiner C. Means: Institutionalist and post Keynesian (January, 2019), pp. 1-197, ISBN 9780873326155
  3. Irwin, DA; Medema, SG, Jacob Viner: Lectures in economics 301 (January, 2017), pp. 1-159, ISBN 9781412851664
  4. Medema, SG, The "subtle processes of economic reasoning": Marshall, becker, and Theorizing about economic Man and other-regarding behavior, vol. 33 (January, 2015), pp. 43-73
  5. Medema, SG, Paul Samuelson on the history of economic analysis: Selected essays (January, 2014), pp. 1-466, ISBN 9781107029934
  6. Medema, SG; Samuels, WJ, The history of economic thought: A reader, second edition (January, 2013), pp. 1-767, ISBN 9780415568678
  7. Medema, SG, The hesitant hand: Taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas (July, 2009), pp. 1-230, ISBN 9780691150000
  8. Medema, SG, The hesitant hand: Taming self-interest in the history of economic ideas (July, 2009), ISBN 9780691122960
  9. Medema, SG, Alfred Marshall Meets Law and Economics: Rationality, Norms, and Theories as Tendency Statements, vol. 9 (October, 2006), pp. 235-252, ISBN 9780762313785
  10. Medema, SG, J. DANIEL HAMMOND, NORMA JEANE MORTENSON, AND AMERICAN INSTITUTIONALISM: A VIEW FROM THE TOP ROW, vol. 22 (January, 2003), pp. 203-210, ISBN 9780762310890

Journal Articles

  1. Medema, SG, "i GET by with A LITTLE HELP from MY FRIENDS ... ": AN EDITOR'S RETROSPECTIVE, Journal of the History of Economic Thought (January, 2024)
  2. Medema, SG, IDENTIFYING A "cHICAGO SCHOOL" of ECONOMICS: On the ORIGINS, DIFFUSION, and EVOLVING MEANINGS of A FAMOUS NAME BRAND, Journal of the History of Economic Thought (January, 2023)
  3. Medema, SG, Theorising public expenditures: welfare theorems, market failures, and the turn from “public finance” to “public economics”, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 30 no. 5 (January, 2023), pp. 713-738
  4. Medema, SG, The coase theorem at sixty, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 58 no. 4 (December, 2020), pp. 1045-1128
  5. Medema, SG, Embracing at arm's length: Ronald Coase's uneasy relationship with the Chicago school, Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 72 no. 4 (October, 2020), pp. 1072-1090
  6. Medema, SG, “Exceptional and Unimportant”? Externalities, Competitive Equilibrium, and the Myth of a Pigovian Tradition, History of Political Economy, vol. 52 no. 1 (February, 2020), pp. 135-170
  7. Medema, SG, The economist and the economist's audience, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 41 no. 3 (September, 2019), pp. 335-341
  8. Maas, H; Medema, SG; Guidi, M, Introduction to economics as a public science. Part II: Institutional settings, OEconomia, vol. 9 no. 3 (September, 2019), pp. 427-432
  9. Maas, H; Medema, SG; Guidi, M, Introduction to economics as a public science, OEconomia, vol. 9 no. 2 (June, 2019), pp. 201-207
  10. Medema, SG, 'A magnificent business prospect' the Coase theorem, the extortion problem, and the creation of Coase theorem worlds, Journal of Institutional Economics, vol. 11 no. 2 (June, 2015), pp. 353-378
  11. Medema, SG, Economic rebel in retrospect, Journal of Economic Methodology (January, 2015)
  12. Medema, SG, Crossing the atlantic with calabresi and coase: Efficiency, distribution, and justice at the origins of economic analysis of law in Britain, History of Economic Ideas, vol. 23 no. 3 (January, 2015), pp. 61-87
  13. Marciano, A; Medema, SG, Market Failure in Context: Introduction, History of Political Economy, vol. 47 (January, 2015)
  14. DeAngelo, G; Medema, SG, Those crazy transaction costs: On the irrelevance of the equivalence between monetary damages and specific performance, European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 37 no. 2 (April, 2014), pp. 269-275
  15. Medema, SG, Juris prudence: Calabresi's uneasy relationship with the coase theorem, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 77 no. 2 (January, 2014), pp. 65-95
  16. Medema, SG, 1966 and all that: Codification, consolidation, creep, and controversy in the early history of the coase theorem, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 36 no. 3 (January, 2014), pp. 271-303
  17. Medema, SG, Neither misunderstood nor ignored: The early reception of coase's wider challenge to the analysis of externalities, History of Economic Ideas, vol. 22 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 111-132
  18. Medema, SG, Economics and institutions lessons from the coase theorem, Revue Economique, vol. 65 no. 2 (January, 2014), pp. 243-261
  19. Medema, SG, The curious treatment of the coase theorem in the environmental economics literature, 1960-1979, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, vol. 8 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 39-57
  20. Medema, SG, The importance of being misunderstood: The Coase theorem and the legacy of 'The Problem of Social Cost', Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, vol. 5 no. 4 (October, 2013), pp. 249-253
  21. Medema, SG, On why there is no Milton Friedman today: Sui Generis, Sui Temporis, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 10 no. 2 (May, 2013), pp. 197-204
  22. Medema, SG, Warren Samuels: A personal reminiscence, History of Political Economy, vol. 44 no. 3 (September, 2012), pp. 389-411
  23. Backhouse, RE; Medema, SG, Economists and the analysis of government failure: Fallacies in the Chicago and Virginia interpretations of Cambridge welfare economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 36 no. 4 (July, 2012), pp. 981-994
  24. Medema, SG, Public choice and the notion of creative communities, History of Political Economy, vol. 43 no. 1 (March, 2011), pp. 225-246
  25. Medema, SG, A case of mistaken identity: George Stigler, "The Problem of Social Cost," and the Coase theorem, European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 31 no. 1 (February, 2011), pp. 11-38
  26. Backhouse, RE; Medema, SG, Robbins's essay and the axiomatization of economics, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 31 no. 4 (December, 2009), pp. 485-499
  27. Medema, SG, History by the numbers: A comment on Carlson and diamond, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 31 no. 4 (December, 2009), pp. 543-547
  28. Medema, SG, "the history of economics is what historians of economics do:" A reconsideration of research priorities in the history of economic thought, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 31 no. 3 (September, 2009), pp. 384-391
  29. Backhouse, RE; Medema, SG, On the definition of economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 23 no. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 221-233
  30. Backhouse, RE; Medema, SG, Defining economics: The Long Road to Acceptance of the Robbins Definition, Economica, vol. 76 no. SUPPL.1 (January, 2009), pp. 805-820
  31. Medema, SG, "Losing my religion": Sidgwick, theism, and the struggle for utilitarian ethics in economic analysis, History of Political Economy, vol. 40 no. 5 (December, 2008), pp. 189-211
  32. Medema, SG, The hesitant hand: Mill, Sidgwick, and the evolution of the theory of market failure, History of Political Economy, vol. 39 no. 3 (September, 2007), pp. 331-358
  33. Medema, SG, Sidgwick's utilitarian analysis of law: A bridge from Bentham to Becker?, American Law and Economics Review, vol. 9 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 30-47
  34. Medema, SG, On "big five and little five" [4], Society, vol. 43 no. 6 (September, 2006), pp. 6
  35. Samuels, WJ; Medema, SG, Freeing Smith from the "Free market": On the misperception of Adam Smith on the economic role of government, History of Political Economy, vol. 37 no. 2 (June, 2005), pp. 219-226
  36. Medema, SG, "Marginalizing" government: From la scienza delle finanze to Wicksell, History of Political Economy, vol. 37 no. 1 (March, 2005), pp. 1-25
  37. Medema, SG, Setting the table, History of Political Economy, vol. 37 no. SUPPL. (January, 2005), pp. 1-9
  38. Medema, SG, Public Choice and Deviance: A Comment, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 63 no. 1 (January, 2004), pp. 51-54
  39. Medema, SG; Samuels, WJ, John R. Commons's "The definition of price", Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, vol. 18 no. SUPPL: PART B (January, 2000), pp. 301-308
  40. Medema, SG; Zerbe, RO, Educating Alice: Lessons from the Coase theorem, Research in Law and Economics, vol. 19 (January, 2000), pp. 69-112
  41. Medema, SG, 23. Pearson's origins of law and economics: The economists' new science of law, 1830-1930 and Fried's the progressive assault on laissez faire: Robert Hale and the first law and economics movement, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, vol. 18 no. SUPPL: PART A (January, 2000), pp. 353-364
  42. Medema, SG, "Related disciplines": The professionalization of public choice analysis, History of Political Economy, vol. 32 no. SUPPL. (January, 2000), pp. 322-323
  43. Medema, SG; Samuels, WJ, The economic role of government as, in part, a matter of selective perception, sentiment and valuation: The cases of Pigovian and Paretian welfare economics, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 59 no. 1 (January, 2000), pp. 87-108
  44. Balisciano, ML; Medema, SG, Positive science, normative man: Lionel Robbins and the political economy of art, History of Political Economy, vol. 31 no. SUPPL. 1 (January, 1999), pp. 282-284
  45. Medema, SG, Symposium on the Coase Theorem: Legal Fiction: The Place of the Coase Theorem in Law and Economics, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 15 no. 2 (January, 1999), pp. 209-233
  46. Medema, SG, The trial of Homo economicus: What law and economics tells us about the development of economic imperialism, History of Political Economy, vol. 29 no. SUPPL. (December, 1998), pp. 140-142
  47. Aslanbeigui, N; Medema, SG, Beyond the Dark Clouds: Pigou and Coase on Social Cost, History of Political Economy, vol. 30 no. 4 (January, 1998), pp. 600-625
  48. Medema, SG, Wandering the road from pluralism to posner: The transformation of law and economics in the twentieth century, History of Political Economy, vol. 30 no. SUPPL. 1 (January, 1998), pp. 223-224
  49. Medema, SG, Coase, costs, and coordination, Journal of Economic Issues, vol. 30 no. 2 (January, 1996), pp. 571-578
  50. Formby, JP; Medema, SG; Smith, WJ, Tax neutrality and social welfare in a comptutational general equilibrium framework, Public Finance Review, vol. 23 no. 4 (January, 1995), pp. 419-447
  51. MEDEMA, SG, Hanly on Coase: A Comment, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 11 no. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 107-111
  52. Medema, SG, Is there life beyond efficiency? Elements of a social law and economics, Review of Social Economy, vol. 51 no. 2 (January, 1993), pp. 138-153
  53. Ballard, CL; Medema, SG, The marginal efficiency effects of taxes and subsidies in the presence of externalities. A computational general equilibrium approach, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 52 no. 2 (January, 1993), pp. 199-216
  54. Medema, SG, Transactions, transaction costs, and vertical integration: A re-examination, Review of Political Economy, vol. 4 no. 3 (January, 1992), pp. 291-316
  55. Samuels, WJ; Medema, SG, Gardiner C. Means's institutional and post-Keynesian economics, Review of Political Economy, vol. 1 no. 2 (July, 1989), pp. 163-191

Chapters in Books

  1. Medema, SG, In search of Santa Claus: Samuelson, Stigler, and Coase Theorem Worlds, in Methodology and History of Economics: Reflections With and Without Rules (August, 2022), pp. 71-89, ISBN 9781032209463
  2. Medema, SG, Between LSE and Cambridge: Accounting for Ronald Coase’s Fascination with Alfred Marshall, in Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought (January, 2021), pp. 231-268
  3. Marciano, A; Medema, SG, Disciplinary collisions: Blum, Kalven and the economic analysis of accident law at Chicago in the 1960s, in Law and Economics as Interdisciplinary Exchange: Philosophical, Methodological and Historical Perspectives (January, 2019), pp. 53-75, ISBN 9780367135058
  4. Medema, SG, His influence in the Anglo-Saxon world, in Antonio de Viti de Marco: A Story Worth Remembering (January, 2016), pp. 115-118, ISBN 9781137534927
  5. Medema, SG, Ronald Coase and the legal-economic nexus, in The Elgar Companion to Ronald H. Coase (January, 2016), pp. 291-304, ISBN 9781782547983
  6. Backhouse, RE; Medema, SG, Walras in the age of Marshall: An analysis of English-language journals, 1890-1939, in Economics and Other Branches - In the Shade of the Oak Tree: Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel (July, 2015), pp. 69-86, ISBN 9781848935334
  7. Medema, SG, From dismal to dominance? Law and economics and the values of imperial science, historically contemplated, in Law and Economics: Philosophical Issues and Fundamental Questions (January, 2015), pp. 69-88, ISBN 9780415404105
  8. Backhouse, RE; Medema, SG, Walras in the Age of Marshall: An Analysis of English-Language Journals, 1890–1939, in Economics and other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree: Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel (January, 2015), pp. 69-86, ISBN 9781848935334
  9. Medema, SG, Wandering the road from pluralism to posner: The transformation of law and economics in the twentieth century, in Law and Economics: A Reader (September, 2013), pp. 16-32, ISBN 9780415445603
  10. Medema, SG, Chicago price theory and chicago law and economics: A tale of two transitions, in Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program (January, 2011), pp. 151-179, ISBN 9781107013414
  11. Backhouse, RE; Bateman, BW; Medema, SG, The reception of Marshall in the United States, in The Impact of Alfred Marshall's Ideas: The Global Diffusion of his Work (December, 2010), pp. 59-80, ISBN 9781847205124
  12. Medema, S, History of economic thought, in The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds (December, 2010), pp. 139-160, ISBN 9781848447905
  13. Medema, SG, Adam Smith and the Chicago school, in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (January, 2010), pp. 40-51, ISBN 9781840648744
  14. Medema, SG, Richard A. Posner, in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (January, 2010), pp. 306-311, ISBN 9781840648744
  15. Medema, SG, Chicago law and economics, in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (January, 2010), pp. 160-174, ISBN 9781840648744
  16. Medema, SG, Ronald harry coase, in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics (January, 2010), pp. 259-264, ISBN 9781840648744
  17. Medema, SG, Pigou's “prima facie case”: Market failure in theory and practice, in No Wealth but Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain, 1880-1945 (January, 2010), pp. 42-61, ISBN 9780521197861
  18. Backhouse, RR; Bateman, BB; Medema, SS, The reception of Marshall in the United States, in The Impact of Alfred Marshall's Ideas: The Global Diffusion of his Work (December, 2008), pp. 59-80, ISBN 9781847205124
  19. Medema, SG, The Economic Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought, in A Companion to the History of Economic Thought (December, 2007), pp. 428-444, ISBN 9780631225737
  20. Mercuro, N; Medema, SG; Samuels, WJ, Robert Lee Hale (1884-1969)-legal economist, in The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics: Second Edition (January, 2005), pp. 531-544, ISBN 9781845420321
  21. Medema, SG, The government-property relation: Confessions of a classical liberal, in The Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property (July, 2003), pp. 145-151, ISBN 9780203484654