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Working Papers

2013

1. Billionaires
   Working Papers, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum
   Also in Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (2012) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article in Industrial and Corporate Change (2013)

2011

2. Quasimarket failure
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
   See also Journal Article in Public Choice (2011)

2009

3. The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University View citations (2)

2006

4. Comparing Apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the Remaining Post-Socialist World
   (Comparing Apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the Remaining Post-Socialist World)
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University View citations (3)
5. Contagious Capitalism
   (Contagious Capitalism)
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University View citations (1)
6. The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management
   (The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management)
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University View citations (4)
7. Weathering Corruption
   (Weathering Corruption)
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, West Virginia University
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Law and Economics (2008)

Journal Articles

2013

1. Billionaires
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013, 22, (1), 313-337
   See also Working Paper (2013)
2. The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions
   Kyklos, 2013, 66, (2), 208-228

2012

3. An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2012, 25, (3), 185-198
4. Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul
   American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2012, 71, (5), 1157-1168
5. Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy
   Economics Letters, 2012, 114, (1), 139-141
6. Hooligans
   Revue d'économie politique, 2012, 122, (2), 213-231
7. Ordeals
   Journal of Law and Economics, 2012, 55, (3), 691 - 714
8. Purpose – This paper seeks to examine how productive entrepreneurial activities, such as innovation, influence unproductive entrepreneurial activities, such as regulatory rent seeking. Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the argument the authors consider Bavaria's brewing industry in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries using an analytic narrative approach. Findings – The example of Bavaria's brewing industry suggests that productive entrepreneurial activities may increase unproductive entrepreneurial activities. Confronted with a situation in which innovation erodes their monopoly returns, legally protected producers and policymakers reregulate industry to recapture lost rents. Regulation policy under such reregulation tends to be more encompassing, and thus produces more unproductive entrepreneurial activity, than pre-innovation regulation policy. This reflects the greater number or variety of producers that new regulation policy must encompass for reregulation to recreate rents. Originality/value – The paper builds on Thomas’ work, which suggests that innovation can undermine existing regulatory institutions and result in deregulation. This paper identifies an alternative channel through which productive entrepreneurial innovation may influence unproductive entrepreneurial rent seeking. It argues that productive entrepreneurial innovation by legally unprotected producers in an industry can also increase, rather than decrease, the extent of unproductive entrepreneurship in that industry
   Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2012, 1, (4), 84-95
9. Sassywood
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, (4), 608-620
10. The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2012, 25, (4), 355-357
11. Think tanks
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, (1), 62-77
12. Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2012, 33, (5-6), 441-451

2011

13. Government, clubs, and constitutions
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 80, (2), 301-308 View citations (1)
14. Hate groups and hate crime
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2011, 31, (4), 256-262 View citations (1)
15. Quasimarket failure
    Public Choice, 2011, 149, (1), 209-224
    See also Working Paper (2011)
16. Was privateering plunder efficient?
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 79, (3), 303-317
17. What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis
    Cato Journal, 2011, 31, (1), 83-86

2010

18. Pirates
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2010, 23, (3), 315-319
19. Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 76, (3), 497-510 View citations (1)
20. Racial Fractionalization and School Performance
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2010, 69, (2), 736-758
21. Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 73, (3), 297-307 View citations (1)
22. The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance
    International Advances in Economic Research, 2010, 16, (1), 130-131

2009

23. Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best
    The Law and Development Review, 2009, 2, (1), 4 View citations (8)
24. Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement
    Kyklos, 2009, 62, (1), 1-14 View citations (1)
25. Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States
    Public Choice, 2009, 141, (3), 523-525
26. The Laws of Lawlessness
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2009, 38, (2), 471-503 View citations (12)
27. The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract
    Public Choice, 2009, 139, (3), 443-459 View citations (8)
28. Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2009, 29, (3), 252-259 View citations (11)
29. What Can Aid Do?
    Cato Journal, 2009, 29, (3), 391-397 View citations (1)

2008

30. C.C. Gibson, K. Andersson, E. Ostrom and S. Shivakumar, The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2005) ISBN 0-19-927884-9 264Â +Â xxi pp., index, $35.00
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008, 66, (2), 437-440
31. Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order
    Public Choice, 2008, 135, (1), 67-78 View citations (3)
32. Costly price discrimination
    Economics Letters, 2008, 99, (1), 206-208 View citations (4)
33. Government intervention and the structure of social capital
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2008, 21, (2), 209-218 View citations (2)
34. How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest
    American Law and Economics Review, 2008, 10, (1), 61-89 View citations (10)
35. Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, 67, (2), 331-358 View citations (19)
36. Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22, (2), 155-169 View citations (7)
37. Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37, (1), 161-188 View citations (18)
38. Weathering Corruption
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2008, 51, (4), 667-681 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper (2006)

2007

39. An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization
    Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 115, (6), 1049-1094 View citations (31)
40. Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2007, 163, (3), 467-482 View citations (4)
41. Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity
    Review of Social Economy, 2007, 65, (2), 141-164 View citations (1)
42. Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35, (4), 689-710 View citations (26)
43. Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence
    Public Choice, 2007, 130, (1), 245-247
44. Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice
    Public Choice, 2007, 133, (1), 253-256 View citations (1)
45. Efficient anarchy
    Public Choice, 2007, 130, (1), 41-53 View citations (16)
46. Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development
    Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28, (4), 658-676 View citations (7)
47. Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2007, 18, (2), 127-143 View citations (6)
48. The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina
    Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74, (2), 363-376 View citations (3)
49. The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 23, (3), 237-250
50. Trading with Bandits
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 50, 303-321 View citations (21)

2006

51. Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19, (2), 137-147 View citations (2)
52. Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error
    Review of Political Economy, 2006, 18, (1), 79-90 View citations (2)
53. Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis
    Public Choice, 2006, 127, (1), 55-73 View citations (15)
54. Robust political economy
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19, (2), 107-111 View citations (4)
55. Self-Enforcing Arrangements and Heterogeneous Groups
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2006, 65, (4), 891-907 View citations (8)
56. Was Mises right?
    Review of Social Economy, 2006, 64, (2), 247-265

2005

57. Alexander J. Field (2001) Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN0-472-11224-4. x-373 pp
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18, (2), 223-226
58. Endogenizing fractionalization
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2005, 1, (01), 75-98 View citations (17)
59. Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman, Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004) 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 56, (3), 448-450
60. Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 57, (2), 241-244 View citations (6)
61. The New Comparative Political Economy
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18, (3), 281-304 View citations (7)

2004

62. Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development
    Kyklos, 2004, 57, (1), 21-44 View citations (7)
63. The Many Faces of the Market
    Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2004, 14, (2), 5
64. The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries
    Cato Journal, 2004, 24, (3), 235-249 View citations (3)

2003

65. Is the transition to the market too important to be left to the market?
    Economic Affairs, 2003, 23, (1), 33-39 View citations (1)