Historians of economic thought have debated the relative import ance of theoretical advances, changes in the economy, ideological factors, and confrontations of theory with evidence in explaining the rise and decline of eco nomic paradigms. In the case of the decline of Ricardian economics in...

This paper develops a formal model of worker-employer relations within capitalist firms. The results illuminate the effects of property rela tions on the organization of work, the monitoring of workers, the extent of wage hierarchies and incentives and inefficiencies in such firms. A comparison...

I assess here the evidence for Gordon's thesis in Fat and Mean that a bureaucratic burden of managers and supervisors has grown in response to the breakdown of the postwar labor-capital accord. My results suggest that increases in managerial ratios are explained only partly by the switch to a...