Phillip J. Nelson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that consumers lack full information about the prices of goods, but their information is probably poorer about the quality variation of products simply because the latter information is more difficult to obtain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the major features of the behavior of advertising can be explained by advertising's information function, and it is shown that the most important information conveyed by advertising is simply that the brand advertises.

TL;DR: The authors show that product differentiation will have quite different consequences on market behavior given different ways in which consumers obtain their information, and their theoretical results are then supported by substantial empirical evidence, and they show that the consumer's acquisition of information about product quality is a determinant of market behavior.

TL;DR: The expressive theory of voting needs more specification of the motives for expression if it is not merely to be a theory of non-instrumental voting as discussed by the authors, and they provide such a specification.

TL;DR: Nelson and Greene as discussed by the authors look at a more general process: adopting political positions to enhance one's reputation for trustworthiness both to others and to oneself, which has itself been berated and defended.