Phillip Nelson

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 entitled "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[]

^ Birthdate from Hathitrust catalog entry for Signaling Goodness
^ Faculty 1999–2000, SUNY Binghamton, retrieved 2015-03-10.
^ Cabral, Luis M. B. (2000), Introduction to Industrial Organization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, p. 223, ISBN 978-0-262-03286-5.
^ Acknowledgements footnote from Nelson, P. (1959), "Migration, Real Income and Information", Journal of Regional Science, 1 (2): 43–74, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1959.tb01460.x.
^ 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
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

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[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, 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.

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