Publications of James T. Hamilton

Books

  1. J.T. Hamilton, Conserving Data in the Conservation Reserve Program: How a Regulatory Program Runs on Imperfect Information (2010), Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press .
  2. Scott de Marchi and J.T. Hamilton, You Are What You Choose: The Habits of Mind that Really Determine How We Make Decisions (2009), New York: Portfolio (Penguin Group) .
  3. J.T. Hamilton, Regulation Through Revelation: The Origin and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (2005), New York: Cambridge University Press .
  4. J.T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (2004), Princeton: Princeton University Press .
  5. J.T. Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (2000), Princeton University Press, paperback edition .
  6. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Calculating Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy (1999), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press .
  7. J.T. Hamilton, Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming (1998), Princeton: Princeton University Press (Paperback edition 2000.) .
  8. Television Violence and Public Policy, edited by J. T. Hamilton (1998), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (Paperback edition 2000.) .
  9. J.T. Hamilton with Charles Brown and James Medoff, Employers Large and Small (1990), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press .
  10. J.T. Hamilton with Joseph P. Kalt, The FACS/Ford Study of Economic and Business Journalism (1987), Los Angeles: Foundation for American Communications and the Ford Foundation .

Chapters in Books

  1. J.T. Hamilton, "Measuring Spillovers in Markets for Local Public Affairs Coverage", in The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson (Forthcoming 2012), Oxford University Press .
  2. J.T. Hamilton, "What's the Incentive to Save Journalism?", in Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can be Done to Fix It, edited by Robert W. McChesney and Victor Pickard (2011), pp. 277-288, New Press .
  3. J.T. Hamilton, The Market and the Media, in Institutions of American Democracy: The Press, edited by Overholser and Jamieson (2005), Oxford University Press .
  4. J.T. Hamilton, Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries: Evidence and Policies, in International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2005/2006, edited by Tietenberg and Folmer (2005), Edward Elgar .
  5. J.T. Hamilton, Going by the *(Informal) Book: The EPA's Use of Informal Rules in Enforcing Hazardous Waste Laws, in Reinventing Government and The Problem of Bureaucracy, edited by Gary Libecap (1996), pp. 109-155, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press .

Journal Articles

  1. Brian G. Southwell, J.T. Hamilton, and Jonathan S. Slater, "Why Addressing the Poor and Underserved is Vexing", Health Communication, vol. 26 no. 6 (2011), pp. 583-585 .
  2. Sarah Cohen, J. T. Hamilton, and Fred Turner, "Computational Journalism: How Computer Scientists Can Empower Journalists, Democracy's Watchdogs, in the Production of News in the Public Interest", Communications of the ACM, vol. 54 no. 10 (2011), pp. 66-71 .
  3. J.T. Hamilton, The (Many) Missing Markets for International News: How News From Abroad Sells at Home", Journalism Studies, vol. 11 no. 5 (2010), pp. 650-666 .
  4. J.T. Hamilton, News That Sells: Media Competition and News Content, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 8 no. 1 (2007), pp. 7-42 .
  5. Scott de Marchi and J.T. Hamilton, Assessing the Accuracy of Self-Reported Data: An Evaluation of the Toxics Release Inventory, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty no. 32 (2006), pp. 57-76 .
  6. J.T. Hamilton with Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi, The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 69 no. 2 (2002), pp. 266-289 .
  7. J.T. Hamilton with Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscusi, Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Site: Housing Market Evidence on Learning about Risk, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 82 no. 3 (August, 2000), pp. 439-451 .
  8. J.T. Hamilton with Kip Viscusi, How Costly is 'Clean'?: An Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Superfund Site Remediations, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 18 no. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 2-27 .
  9. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence From Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions, American Economic Review, vol. 89 no. 4 (September, 1999), pp. 1010-1027 .
  10. J.T. Hamilton, Exercising Property Rights to Pollute: Do Cancer Risks and Politics Affect Plant Emission Reductions?, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 18 no. 2 (August, 1999), pp. 105-124 .
  11. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi and P. Christen Dockins, Conservative versus Mean Risk Assessments: Implications for Superfund Policies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 34 (November, 1997), pp. 187-206 .
  12. J.T. Hamilton, Taxes, Torts, and the Toxics Release Inventory: Congressional Voting on Instruments to Control Pollution, Economic Inquiry, vol. 35 no. 4 (October, 1997), pp. 745-762 .
  13. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, The Benefits and Costs of Regulatory Reforms for Superfund, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, vol. 16 no. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 159-198 .
  14. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Cleaning Up Superfund, The Public Interest, vol. 124 (Summer, 1996), pp. 52-60 .
  15. J.T. Hamilton with Helen F. Ladd, Biased Ballots? The Impact of Ballot Structure on North Carolina Elections in 1992, Public Choice, vol. 87 (June, 1996), pp. 259-280 .
  16. J.T. Hamilton with John Brehm, Noncompliance in Environmental Reporting: Are Violators Ignorant, or Evasive, of the Law?, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 40 no. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 444-477 .
  17. J.T. Hamilton, Private Interests in 'Public Interest' Programming: An Economic Assessment of Broadcaster Incentives, Duke Law Journal, vol. 45 no. 6 (1996), pp. 1177-1192 .
  18. J.T. Hamilton, Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 14 no. 1 (Winter, 1995), pp. 107-132 .
  19. J.T. Hamilton, Pollution as News: Media and Stock Market Reactions to the Toxics Release Inventory Data, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 28 (January, 1995), pp. 98-113 .
  20. J.T. Hamilton with W. Kip Viscusi, Human Health Risk Assessments for Superfund, Ecology Law Quarterly, vol. 21 no. 3 (1994), pp. 573-641 (Revised version published as "The Magnitude and Policy Implications of Health Risks from Hazardous Waste Sites," in Richard L. Revesz and Richard B. Stewart (eds.), Analyzing Superfund: Economics, Science, and Law (Washington: Resources for the Future, 1995), 55-81; reprinted in part in Richard L. Revesz (ed.) Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 256-263.) .
  21. J.T. Hamilton with Christopher H. Schroeder, Strategic Regulators and the Choice of Rulemaking Procedures: The Selection of Formal and Informal Rules in Regulating Hazardous Waste, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 57 (Winter/Spring 1994), pp. 111-160 .
  22. J.T. Hamilton, Politics and Social Costs: Estimating the Impact of Collective Action on Hazardous Waste Facilities, Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 24 no. 1 (Spring, 1993), pp. 101-125 (Reprinted in Roger D. Congleton (ed.), The Political Economy of Environmental Protection: Analysis and Evidence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.) .
  23. J.T. Hamilton, Lower Pay for Analysis: Greater Rewards are Offered Those Writing Economics from Human Interest and Political Viewpoints, Nieman Reports, vol. XLV (Fall, 1991) .
  24. J.T. Hamilton, Missing and the Mark(et) in Siting Hazardous Waste Facilities, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, vol. I (1991) .

Other

  1. J.T. Hamilton, Co-editor and Co-organizer for conference volume entitlted "News in the Public Interest: A Free and Subsidized Press" (2004), Reilly Center, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University .
  2. J.T. Hamilton, Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility (2003) (Working paper for Shorenstein Center on Press and Public Policy.) .
  3. J.T. Hamilton, Special editor and organizer for conference volume entitled "Regulating Regulation: The Political Economy of Administrative Procedures and Regulatory Instruments, Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 57 (Winter/Spring 1994) .
  4. J.T. Hamilton with Victor Hasselblad, The Toxics Release Inventory: Information Provision and Pollution Reduction (1993) (Case Study.) .
  5. J.T. Hamilton with Frederick Mayer, Hazardous Waste in North Carolina (1992) (Case Study.) .
  6. J.T. Hamilton, Politics and Social Cost: Hazardous Waste Facilities in a Truly Coasian World, Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs Working Paper (June, 1991) .
  7. J.T. Hamilton with Henry Lee, Rapporteur's Report: Executive Session on Northeast Electric Power Policy, Discussion Paper Series (May, 1987), Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Kennedy School of Government .
  8. J.T. Hamilton with Joseph P. Kalt and Henry Lee, A Review of the Adequacy of Electric Power Generating Capacity in the United States, 1985-93-Beyond, Discussion Paper Series (June, 1986), Discussion Paper Series, Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Kennedy School of Government .

Book Chapter

  1. J.T. Hamilton, Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries: Evidence and Policies, in The Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy.., edited by Yse Serret and Nick Johnstone (2006), Edward Elgar and OECD .