The Use of Knowledge about Society (2007)
Dw Mackenzie George, Don Lavoie, Richard Wagner, Rebecca Menes
Convergence on efficient institutions through political processes requires knowledge of the discounted net benefits from alternative political strategies. The processes that convey this data suffer...
Charge Fluctuations on Membrane Surfaces in Water (2000)
Menes, Rebecca, Pincus, Philip, Stein, Bean
We generalize the predictions for attractions between over-all neutral surfaces induced by charge fluctuations/correlations to non-uniform systems that include dielectric discontinuities, as is the...
Interactions Between Charged Rods Near Salty Surfaces (1999)
Menes, Rebecca, Jensen, Niels Gronbech, Pincus, Phil A.
Using both theoretical modeling and computer simulations we study a model system for DNA interactions in the vicinity of charged membranes. We focus on the polarization of the mobile charges in the...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1997.
The Effect of Patronage Politics on City Government in American Cities, 1900-1910
In this paper I explore the effect of patronage or machine' politics on government performance in American cities during the Progressive era. I use game theoretic models and an empirical analysis of...
Corruption in Cities: Graft and Politics in American Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The essay is an exploration of corruption as practiced by city politicians in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Corruption is generally considered to be bad for the performance...