Hey, I had to get your attention, didn’t I?
Actually, I like and admire Peter, and consider him a friend. I have no doubt this feeling is mutual. But, at present, I come not to praise, but to condemn and criticize. Why? Take a peek at this batch of his otherwise excellent publications:
“T. W. Schultz and the Human-Capital Approach to Entrepreneurship” (with Michael L. Cook), Review of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.
“The Entrepreneurial Organization of Heterogeneous Capital” (with Kirsten Foss, Nicolai J. Foss, and Sandra K. Klein), Journal of Management Studies, forthcoming.
“The Long-Term Competitiveness of the U.S. Electricity Industry” (with David R. Kamerschen and David V. Porter), Energy Economics 27, no. 5 (September 2005): 731-51.
“Organizational Issues in the Agrifood Sector: Toward a Comparative Approach” (with Claude Ménard), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86, no. 3 (August 2004): 750-55.
“Politics and Productivity” (with Hung Luu), Economic Inquiry 41, no. 3 (July 2003): 433-47.
“Structure, Conduct, and Performance: A Simultaneous-Equations Approach” (with Charles D. DeLorme, David R. Kamerschen, and Lisa Ford Voeks), Applied Economics 34, no. 17 (November 2002): 2135-41.
“Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization” (with Kirsten Foss, Nicolai J. Foss, and Sandra K. Klein), Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines 12, no. 1 (March 2002): 79-96.
“Were the Acquisitive Conglomerates Inefficient?” RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 745-61.
“Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures” (with Sandra K. Klein), Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 4, no 2 (Summer 2001): 3-25. Reprinted in Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein, eds., Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (Aldershott, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2002).
“The Competitive Effects of Advertising in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1970-94” (with Matthias Greuner and David R. Kamerschen), International Journal of the Economics of Business 7, no. 3 (2000): 245-61.
“Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 2, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 19-42. Spanish translation, “Función empresarial y control de la dirección de le empresa,” Libertas 16, no. 31 (October 1999): 3-49.
“The Effect of the Designated-Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen: Pitcher’s Moral Hazard or Team’s Cost-Benefit Calculation? A Comment” (with Gregory A. Trandel and Lawrence H. White), Economic Inquiry 36, no. 4 (October 1998): 679-84. Reprinted in Andrew A. Zimbalist, ed., The Economics of Sport (Edward Elgar, 2001), vol 2, pp. 583-88.
“Transaction Cost Economics in Practice: Applications and Evidence” (with Howard A. Shelanski), Journal of Market-Focused Management 1, no. 4 (1996): 277-96.
“Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization,” Review of Austrian Economics 9, no. 2 (1996): 51-77. Spanish translation, “La empresa y el cálculo económico,” Libertas 14, no. 27 (October 1997): 83-119.
“Empirical Research in Transaction Cost Economics: A Review and Assessment” (with Howard A. Shelanski), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 11, no. 2 (October 1995): 335-61. Reprinted in Glenn R. Carroll and David J. Teece, eds., Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies: The Transaction Cost Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 89-118.
Notice the problem I have with the format in which he cites he own articles? To see this horrid error of his, keep reading.
The difficulty I have is that it takes extra effort to cite him in the publications of other people. Consider, only, the last entry, where Peter co authors the essay “(with Howard A. Shelanski).” But who is the first listed author on this publication, Peter or Howard? Peter’s format does not say. Is the correct citation Klein, Peter, and Howard A. Shelanski? Or, is it Shelanski, Howard A. and Peter Klein? The person who might cite him has to take extra effort to find out. Why make it harder to get your own work cited. Why not use proper citation? In this case, the proper citation, at least the way I format it, is this:
Shelanski, Howard A. and Peter G. Klein. 1995. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 11, No. 2 (October), pp. 335-361
As the self-styled Jewish mother of the Austro-libertarian movement, I hereby ORDER everyone, including that rotten kid, Peter, to use a format like this, or any other version that makes it easier for us to cite each other. As the Jewish mother of the movement, I have potent threats to hold over you, my children, if you disobey me in this: As Jewish mother to the movement, I have weapons of mass annoyance to launch against you if you fail to obey my ORDERS on this matter: whining, nagging, pouring chicken soup on your head, borscht too, pinching your cheeks (upper ones, not lower ones), throwing gefilte fish at you, breaking matzoh over your head and getting the crumbs on you, etc. So, BEWARE of my powers. I don’t like to brag, but, when it comes to being a nudge, I am truly world class.
Why is it so important that we adopt my format, not Peter’s? So that it is easier to cite each other. Why, in turn, is this important? Because getting an academic job, attaining promotion, being awarded tenure, etc. depends not only on our own publications. Also important is whether, and to what extent, other scholars cite our work in their scholarly output. This is particularly important for our younger people: oldsters, when relevant, please cite them. We want to hand over the baton that Murray Rothbard handed over to us to the younger generation, do we not?! So, everyone, please use a format that makes this easier, and, of far more importance, try to cite each other’s work, especially that of our younger colleagues. This message is mainly aimed at younger Austro-libertarian scholars. Do NOT follow Peter’s format! Instead, make it easy for all of us, young and old, to cite you.
3:59 pm on May 2, 2015
