Douglas K. Adie
Scholarly Accomp lishments
A. Books
An Evaluation of Postal Service Wage Rates, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1977, pp. i-xiv, pp. 1-182.
Monopoly Mail: Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, Cato Institute, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989, pp. i-vii, pp. 1-197.
The Mail Monopoly: Analyzing Canadian Postal Service, The Fraser Institute, Vancouver, B.C., 1990, pp. i-xvi, 1-284.
< P>B. Articles
"The Quantitative Importance of English Bank Deposits Before 1984," The Economic History Review, No. 2, 1970.
The Responsiveness of Consumers to Finance Rate Changes,"Proceedings of the Midwest Finance Association, Summer 1970. (co-author).
"Teenage Unemployment Effects of Federal Minimum Wages,"Proceedings of the IRRA, February 1971. (co-author).
"A Two-Stage Cross-Country Test of the Forced Saving Theory," < /EM>Proceedings of the Business and Economic Section, American Statistical Association, Fall 1971.
Economics of Charity by Ireland and Johnson. Book review in Review of Social Economy, Fall, 1971.
"The Responsiveness of Borrowers to Finance and Credit Life Rate Changes of Four Lending Institutions," Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business, Spring 1972. (co-author).
"The English Money Stock, 1834-1844," Explorations in Economic History, Winter, 1971-72.
"The La g in Effect of Minimum Wages of Teenage Unemployment," Proceedings of the IRRA, March 1972.
"A Measurement of the Degree of the Lag of Expectations Effects on the Phillips Relation," Proceedings of the Business and Economics Section, American Statistical Association, 1972.
"Teenage Unemployment and Federal Minimum Wages," Journal of Political Economy, March/April 1973.
"A Comparison of the Quantity and Income-Expenditure Theories," Journal of the American Statisti cal Association, March 1973.
"Competition in Consumer Credit Markets," Chapter 5 in Consumer Credit Life and Disability Insurance, ed. Charles L. Hubbard, College of Business Administration, Ohio University, July, 1973.
"The Minimum Wage and Teenage Unemployment: A Comment," (with Lowell Gallaway), Western Economic Journal, Vol. II, No. 4, December 1973. (co-author).
Profit for the Lord, by William J. Danker. Book review in Christian Scholar's Review, Vol. III, No. 3, 1974 .
"English Bank Deposits Before 1844," Chapter 7 in Essays in Quantitative Economic History, ed. Roderick C. Floud, Clarendon Press, 1974.
"The Minimum Wage and Unemployment," Economic Issues, A Book of Readings, ed. Campbell R. McConnell, Fifth Edition, 1975, pp. 213-215.
"The Problem of Unemployment," The Journal of Christian Reconstruction, Vol. II, No. 1, Summer 1976, pp. 45-61.
"A Measurement of the Degree and Lag of Expectations Effects on the Phillips Rel ationship," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 15, No. 3, Autumn 1975, pp. 49-66.
"The Strike-Threat System," The Economic Consequences of Collective Bargaining, by William A. Hutt. Book review in the Review of Social Economy, Vol. 34, No. 1, April 1976, pp. 102-103.
The Twelve Year Sentence, ed. William R. Rickenbacker and How To Start Your Own School, Robert Love. Book review in Modern Age, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1976, pp. 343-345.
"Do Corporations Over whelm Consumers and Voters Through Advertising?" The Attack on Corporate America, Corporate Issues Sourcebook, ed. M. Bruce Johnson, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978, pp. 240-245.
"Are Corporations Indifferent to Worker-Job Alienation?" The Attack on Corporate America, Corporate Issues Sourcebook, ed. M. Bruce Johnson, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978, pp. 44-48.
"Liberty and Virtue," a Review of Does Freedom Work? Liberty and Justice in America, by Donald Devine in Modern Age, Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter 1979, pp. 91-92.
"Inflation," a Review of The Inflation Crisis, by Henry Hazlitt in Modern Age, Fall 1979.
"Compulsory Unionism in the Public Sector: Some Economic Issues," Compulsory Unionism in the Public Sector, Symposium Proceedings, April 6, 1979, Chicago, Illinois, National Right to Work Committee, pp. 33-46.
"How Have Postal Workers Fared Since the 1970 Act?" Perspectives on postal Service Issues, ed. Roger Sherman, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1980.
The Effect of Compensation on Voluntary Separation of Navy Enlisted Personnel, (with I. A. Ghazalah) 2 vols. Prepared under the Navy Manpower R & D Program of the Office of Naval Research, May 1980.
"A Christian View of Wealth, Including Money," Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter Elwell, Baker Book House, 1984.
"Abolishing the Postal Monopoly: A Comment," The Cato Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1985, pp. 657-661.
"Freedom First, Last, and Always!" Modern Age, Vol. 30, No. 1, Winter 1986, pp. 50-59.
"Towards a Plan for Divesting and Privatizing the United States Postal System," Ch. 13 in Privatization and Public Policy, Proceedings of the Political Economy Research Center's 1986 Policy Seminar, 1986. Bozeman, Montana, 1987, pp. 143-158.
"Privatizing, Divesting and Deregulating the Postal Service," Ch. 8 in Entrepreneurship and the Privatizing of Government, editor Calvin A. Kent, Qu orum Books, New York, 1987, pp. 123-34.
"Deregulating, Divesting and Privatizing the United States Postal System," Federal Privatization Project, Reason Foundation, 2716 Ocean Park Boulevard, Suite 1062, Santa Monica, California, 90405, July 16, 1987, pp. 1-37.
"Postal Privatization: Benefits of Competition," Ch. 9 in Federal Privatization: Toward Resolving the Deficit Crisis, editor Robert W. Poole, Reason Foundation, Santa Monica, California, 1988, pp. 89-94.
"Getting t he Postal Service to Deliver: Privatization Would Work," The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, March 31, 1988, p. 22.
"Avoiding Half Measures in the Plan to Privatize Canada Post,"Financial Times of Canada, November 27, 1989, p. 40.
"Why Marginal Reform of the U.S. Postal Service Won't Succeed," in Free the Mail: Ending the Postal Monopoly, ed. Peter J. Ferrara, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 73-92.
Book Review: Privatization: An Economic Analysis, by John Vickers and George Yarrow, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1988 in The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 507, January 1990, pp. 175-176.
Privatization of the United States Postal Service, "National Forum, The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, Spring 1990, Vol. LXX, No. 2, pp. 17-20.
Annotation of "The Mail Monopoly: Analyzing Canadian Postal Service," Journal of Economic Literature, September 1991
"Cost and Efficiency Gains from Privatizing Solid Waste D isposal Service in British Columbian Municipalities", (with James C. McDavid and Eric Clemens) in Privatizing State and Local Government Services, eds. Simon Hakin and Gary Bowman, Praeger, Westport, CT. Forthcoming Fall, 1995.
"Privatizing Will Improve Mail Service Posthaste", Insight, January 30, 1995. pp. 18-20.
"Privatizing the Postal Service Will Result in Improved Delivery", Ohio University Today, Spring 1995, p.6.
Grants
"Impact of Minimum Wages on Teenage Unemployment," (with Chapin) Kock Foundation grant, June 1969 to July 1971.
"International Transmission of Business Cycles," O.U. Research Committee, Summer 1970 and 1971.
"The Need for Regulation In the Market for Consumer Installment Credit and Credit Life Insurance," Chapter in the Study of Credit Life Insurance.
"The International Transmission of Business Fluctuations Through the Monetary Link," Earhart Foundation, Summer 1971.
"Private and Public Funding of Elementary and Secondary Education," Institute of Human Studies, Summer 1972.
"The International Transmission of Business Fluctuations Between N.A.T.O. and Non-N.A.T.O. Countries," N.A.T.O., Summer 1973.
"An Evaluation of Postal Service Wage Rates," American Enterprise Institute, 1973-75.
"The Distortion Effect of Regulation Q on Two Measures of the Money Stock," Ohio University Research Fund, Summer 1975.
"Intensive Workshop on Privatization in the Slovak Republic," (with Azmi Mikhail) March 23-27, 1992. U.S.I.A. Grant #IA-PSPS-G1190353.