1. The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests;McCloskey;American Economics Association Papers and Proceedings,1985
2. That the southern economy was unable in the antebellum period to generate a comparable growth spurt may have been due to its failure to evolve a comparable capital market, a failure due, perhaps, to the anomaly of increasing risk aversion in the South over time, even into the 1870s. So suggest Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman, and Thomas Weiss in their “Risk, the Rate of Return, and the Pattern of Investment in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing,” Bureau of Economics and Business Research of the University of Illinois, Reprint No. 464 (Champaign-Urbana, n.d.).
3. The ‘Egalitarian Ideal’ and the Distribution of Wealth in the Northern Agricultural Community: A Backward Look;Atack;Review of Economics and Statistics,1981