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Phillip Jacob Nelson (born 1929) is an emeritus professor at Binghamton University, where he was Bartle Professor of Economics. He is noted for having been the first to observe the distinction between an experience good and a search good.
Nelson obtained his doctorate in 1957 from Columbia University, with a dissertation titled "A Study in the Geographic Mobility of Labor".
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.
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, Bibcode:1959JRegS...1...43N, 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.
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