"The Quest for Land and Fortune, is a work of narrative nonfiction--the people are real while what they thought and said is fiction. The background traces the great themes of the American experience through five generations of actual interconnected families whose patriarchs and their intrepid wives could never be satisfied with the status quo. Whether led by their ideals or propelled by the yearning for more land or greater fortunes, the ..."
"In the spring on 2006, a workshop was held at Michigan State University to honour the career of A. Allan Schmid and his writings about how institutions evolve and how alternative institutions, including property rights, shape political relationships and impact economic performance. This edited book is the outcome of the workshop. It is a collection of original essays that explores several approaches to understanding the impact of altern ..."
"Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics,investigates "the rules of the game," how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications an ..."
The economics of population settlement Cost of alternative growth patterns : an essay and annotated bibliography by Joseph T. Purello, AlfredAllanSchmid 55 Pages, Published 1995 by North Central Regional Center For Rural Development, Iowa State University ISBN-13: 978-0-936913-10-0, ISBN: 0-936913-10-X
"Allan Schmid's book is well-illustrated by examples . . . has a superb bibliography . . . [and] is a carefully detailed and extremely convincing attack on the normative pretensions of what I am tempted to call vulgar neoclassical economics, and even on the more elegant hidden valuations of welfare economics and public choice economics. . . . It is an important contribution to the theory of normative economics and to grants economics. Ke ..."