Phillip Nelson

For people named Philip Nelson with only one L, see Philip Nelson (disambiguation).

Phillip Jacob Nelson (born 1929) ^[1] is an emeritus professor at Binghamton University, where he was Bartle Professor of Economics. ^[2] He is noted for having been the first to observe the distinction between an experience good and a search good. ^[3]

Nelson obtained his doctorate in 1957 from Columbia University, with a dissertation titled "A Study in the Geographic Mobility of Labor". ^[4]

Selected publications

Research articles

• Nelson, P. (1970), "Information and Consumer Behavior", Journal of Political Economy, 78 (2): 311–329, doi:10.1086/259630, JSTOR   1830691, S2CID   155053131
• Nelson, P. (1974), "Advertising as Information", Journal of Political Economy, 82 (2): 729–754, CiteSeerX   10.1.1.124.8019 , doi:10.1086/260231, JSTOR   1837143, S2CID   154829661

Books

• Nelson, Phillip J.; Greene, Kenneth V. (2003), Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice, University of Michigan Press, ISBN   9780472113477 . ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. Birthdate from Hathitrust catalog entry for Signaling Goodness
2. Faculty 1999–2000, SUNY Binghamton, retrieved 2015-03-10.
3. Cabral, Luis M. B. (2000), Introduction to Industrial Organization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, p. 223, ISBN   978-0-262-03286-5 .
4. Acknowledgements footnote from Nelson, P. (1959), "Migration, Real Income and Information", Journal of Regional Science, 1 (2): 43–74, Bibcode:1959JRegS...1...43N, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1959.tb01460.x .
5. Munger, Michael C. (December 2004), "Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice, By Phillip J. Nelson and Kenneth V. Greene", Book Reviews: American Politics, Perspectives on Politics, 2 (4): 853–854, doi:10.1017/S1537592704460587, S2CID   154498505
6. Laband, David N. (July 2005), "Signaling goodness: Social rules and public choice", Book Reviews, Public Choice, 125 (1–2): 243–245, doi:10.1007/s11127-005-3421-8, S2CID   153914435 .
7. Gick, Evelyn; Gick, Wolfgang (November 2005), "Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice, P. J. Nelson, K. V. Greene", Book Reviews, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 58 (3): 452–457, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2004.11.003 .
8. Whitman, Douglas Glen (April 2007), "Phillip J. Nelson & Kenneth V. Greene, 2003, Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice", Book Reviews, Journal of Bioeconomics, 9 (1): 79–84, doi:10.1007/s10818-007-9011-8, S2CID   144110072 .

External links

• "Phillip J. Nelson". JSTOR.