Phillip Nelson
Economics scholar (born 1929)
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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]
