Duke University - Economics

Books

Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995), xv + 423 pp.

• Chinese translation (by Ding Zhen Huan and Ou Yang Wu): Pian Hao Wei Zhuang De She Hui Huo Guo (Changchun: Changchun Publishing House, 2005), 287 pp.
• Turkish translation (by Alp Tümertekin), with an additional preface: Yalanla Yaşamak: Tercih Çarpıtmasının Toplumsal Sonuçları (Istanbul : YKY, 2001), 498 pp.
• Swedish translation (by Margareta Eklöf): Privat Sanning, Offentlig Lögn (Stockholm: City University Press, 1999), 424pp.
• German translation (by Ekkehard Schöller), with an additional preface: Leben in Lüge: Präferenzverfälschungen und Ihre Gesellschaftlichen Folgen (Tübingen, Germany: J.C.B. Mohr, 1997), xviii + 462 pp.

Articles and Essays

(with William H. Sandholm) “Cultural Integration and Its Discontents.” Review of Economic Studies, 75 (2008): 201-228.

(with Edward McCaffery) “Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination.” Political Research Quarterly, 61 (2008): 228-238.

(with Edward McCaffery) "Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web." Social Science Quarterly, 85 (September 2004): 713-30.

"Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development: Often Overstated, Usually Transitory," in Culture and Public Action, ed. Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 115-37.

(With Cass R. Sunstein), "Controlling availability cascades," in Cass R. Sunstein (ed.), Behavioral Law and Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 374-97.

(With Cass R. Sunstein), "Availability cascades and risk regulation ," Stanford Law Review, 51 (April 1999): 683-768. Abstract

• Reprint in The International Library of Essays in Environmental Risk, vol. 1, ed. John S. Applegate (Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 411-96.
• Abridged version in Cass R. Sunstein, Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 78-98.

"Insincere deliberation and democratic failure ," Critical Review, 12 (Fall 1998): 529-44. Abstract

"Ethnic norms and their transformation through reputational cascades ," Journal of Legal Studies, 27 (Summer 1998, pt. 2): 623-59. Abstract

"The vulnerability of the Arab state: Reflections on the Ayubi thesis," Independent Review, 3 (Summer 1998): 111-23.

"Ethnic dissimilation and its international diffusion," in David A. Lake and Donald Rothchild (eds.), The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998): 35-60. Abstract

"The inevitability of future revolutionary surprises ," American Journal of Sociology, 100 (May 1995): 1528-51.

"The unthinkable and the unthought," Rationality and Society, 5 (October 1993): 473-505.

"Seeds of racial explosion," Society, 30 (September/October 1993): 55-67.

• Abridged reprint under the title "A backlash against affirmative action is growing among whites," in Paul A. Winters (ed.), Race Relations: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1996): 29-35.
• Reprint in Current, no. 358, December 1993: 4-15.

"Mitigating the tyranny of public opinion: Anonymous discourse and the ethic of sincerity," Constitutional Political Economy, 3 (Winter 1993): 41-74. Abstract

"Now out of never: The element of surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989," World Politics, 44 (October 1991): 7-48. Abstract

• Reprint in Nancy Bermeo (ed.), Liberalization and Democratization (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992): 7- 48. Abstract

"Cognitive limitations and preference evolution," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 146 (June 1991): 241-273. Abstract

"The East European Revolution of 1989: Is it surprising that we were surprised?" American Economic Review, 81 (May 1991): 121-125. Abstract

Reprint in The Economics of Defence, ed. Keith Hartley and Todd Sandler (Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edgar Elgar, 2000): forthcoming.

Reprint in David Kennett and Mark Lieberman (eds.), The Road to Capitalism: Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992): 332-338.

"Private and public preferences," Economics and Philosophy , 6 (April 1990): 1-26.

• French translation (by Joëlle Cicchini): "Préférences privées et préférences publiques," Revue Européenne des Sciences Sociales, vol. 37, no. 114 (1999): 293-319.

"The role of deception in political competition," in A. Breton, G. Galeotti, P. Salmon, and R. Wintrobe (eds.), The Competitive State (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1990): 71-95. Abstract

"Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution ," Public Choice, 61 (April 1989): 41-74. Abstract

• Reprint in Ulrich Witt (ed.), Evolutionary Economics (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993): 273-306.

"The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , 10 (September 1988): 143-171.

"Preference falsification, policy continuity and collective conservatism," Economic Journal, 97 (September 1987): 642-665. Abstract

"Chameleon voters and public choice," Public Choice, 53 (1987): 53-78. Abstract

Comments, replies, edited works

"Why revolutions are better understood than predicted: The role of preference falsification" [Comment on an article by Nikki Keddie], Contention, 3 (Spring 1992): 199-207.

• Reprint in Nikki R. Keddie (ed.), Debating Revolutions (New York: New York University Press, 1994): 27-35.

Encyclopedia Articles

"Public opinion," Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), in press.

"Public opinion, microsociological aspects," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Amsterdam: Pergamon, 2001): 12556-60.

Reviews

Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), in Contemporary Sociology, 21 (January 1992): 8-10.