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Working Papers

2021

1. Magic, explanations, and evil: the origins and design of witches and sorcerers
   Post-Print, HAL

2013

2. Billionaires
   Working Papers, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum View citations (3)
   Also in Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (2012) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Billionaires, Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2011

3. Quasimarket failure
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Quasimarket failure, Public Choice, Springer (2011) View citations (13) (2011)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle
   Rationality and Society, 2024, 36, (1), 5-33

2023

2. Public choice and public health
   Public Choice, 2023, 195, (1), 5-41 View citations (6)

2022

3. A normal market
   European Economic Review, 2022, 145, (C)
4. Hobo Economicus
   The Economic Journal, 2022, 132, (646), 2325-2338

2021

5. A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results
   Public Finance Review, 2021, 49, (4), 627-630
6. Externality and COVID‐19
   Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87, (4), 1107-1118 View citations (7)
7. Kornai goes to Kenya
   Public Choice, 2021, 187, (1), 99-110 View citations (5)
8. The golden age of mercenaries
   (Institutionally constrained technology adoption: Resolving the longbow puzzle)
   European Review of Economic History, 2021, 25, (3), 429-446 View citations (1)
9. Trading with the Dead
   Review of Law & Economics, 2021, 17, (3), 615-646

2020

10. Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective
    Revue d'économie politique, 2020, 130, (6), 957-974 View citations (3)
11. Economics is not statistics (and vice versa)
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2020, 16, (4), 423-425 View citations (10)
12. Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2020, 16, (2), 145-150 View citations (24)
13. Regulating quack medicine
    Public Choice, 2020, 182, (3), 273-286 View citations (11)

2019

14. Do we need behavioral economics to explain law?
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2019, 48, (1), 29-42 View citations (6)

2018

15. Testing rational choice theories of institutional change
    Rationality and Society, 2018, 30, (4), 420-431 View citations (5)
16. Wealth-destroying private property rights
    World Development, 2018, 107, (C), 1-9 View citations (29)
17. Witch Trials
    Economic Journal, 2018, 128, (613), 2066-2105 View citations (12)

2017

18. Child brides
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 144, (C), 40-61 View citations (2)
19. Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2017, 43, (3), 419-439 View citations (6)

2016

20. An economic analysis of Magna Carta
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2016, 47, (S), 40-46 View citations (10)
21. Market-Provided National Defense: Reply to Newhard
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2016, 31, (Summer 2016), 83-86 View citations (4)
22. Prenups
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2016, 45, (2), 367 - 400 View citations (1)

2015

23. Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58, (3) View citations (8)

2014

24. "God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2014, 30, (1), 193-216 View citations (39)
25. A Note on the Market Provision of National Defense
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2014, 29, (Spring 2014), 51-55 View citations (11)
26. Celestial Anarchy: A Threat to Outer Space Commerce?
    Cato Journal, 2014, 34, (3), 581-596 View citations (5)
27. Earw(h)ig: I can’t hear you because your ideas are old
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38, (3), 531-544 View citations (5)
28. Human Sacrifice
    Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1, (1-2), 137-165 View citations (14)
29. Oracles
    Rationality and Society, 2014, 26, (2), 141-169 View citations (10)
30. Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 37, (3), 365-379 View citations (15)
31. The costs of conflict
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, (C), 61-71 View citations (18)
32. Wife Sales
    Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1, (4), 349-379 View citations (7)

2013

33. Billionaires
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013, 22, (1), 313-337 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Billionaires, Working Papers (2013) View citations (3) (2013)
34. Comparative historical political economy
    Journal of Institutional Economics, 2013, 9, (3), 285-301 View citations (33)
35. Gypsy law
    Public Choice, 2013, 155, (3), 273-292 View citations (34)
36. The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions
    Kyklos, 2013, 66, (2), 208-228 View citations (49)
37. Vermin Trials
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, 56, (3), 811 - 836 View citations (21)

2012

38. An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2012, 25, (3), 185-198 View citations (17)
39. Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2012, 71, (5), 1157-1168 View citations (1)
40. Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy
    Economics Letters, 2012, 114, (1), 139-141 View citations (13)
41. Hooligans
    Revue d'économie politique, 2012, 122, (2), 213-231 View citations (8)
42. Ordeals
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2012, 55, (3), 691 - 714 View citations (23)
43. Organizing Crime
    Supreme Court Economic Review, 2012, 20, (1), 89 - 123 View citations (11)
44. Sassywood
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, (4), 608-620 View citations (18)
45. The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker
    Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2012, 1, (1), 84-95 View citations (3)
46. 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
47. Think tanks
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, (1), 62-77 View citations (3)
48. Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2012, 33, (5-6), 441-451 View citations (1)

2011

49. Government, clubs, and constitutions
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 80, (2), 301-308 View citations (53)
50. Hate groups and hate crime
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2011, 31, (4), 256-262 View citations (11)
51. Quasimarket failure
    Public Choice, 2011, 149, (1), 209-224 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper Quasimarket failure, MPRA Paper (2011) View citations (8) (2011)
52. Race, politics, and punishment
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 31, (3), 265-285 View citations (4)
53. Was privateering plunder efficient?
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011, 79, (3), 303-317 View citations (12)
54. What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis
    Cato Journal, 2011, 31, (1), 83-86

2010

55. Criminal constitutions
    Global Crime, 2010, 11, (3), 279-297 View citations (36)
56. Pirates
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2010, 23, (3), 315-319 View citations (4)
57. Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010, 76, (3), 497-510 View citations (35)
58. Racial Fractionalization and School Performance
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2010, 69, (2), 736-758 View citations (10)
59. 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 (16)
60. The Political Economy of Peter Boettke
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2010, 26, (Fall 2010), 47-55 View citations (2)
61. The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance
    International Advances in Economic Research, 2010, 16, (1), 130-131

2009

62. Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best
    The Law and Development Review, 2009, 2, (1), 77-96 View citations (41)
63. Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement
    Kyklos, 2009, 62, (1), 1-14 View citations (24)
64. Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States
    Public Choice, 2009, 141, (3), 523-525
65. The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation
    American Journal of Political Science, 2009, 53, (3), 533-551 View citations (48)
66. The Laws of Lawlessness
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2009, 38, (2), 471-503 View citations (92)
67. The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract
    Public Choice, 2009, 139, (3), 443-459 View citations (56)
68. Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2009, 29, (3), 252-259 View citations (73)
69. What Can Aid Do?
    Cato Journal, 2009, 29, (3), 391-397 View citations (19)

2008

70. 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
71. Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order
    Public Choice, 2008, 135, (1), 67-78 View citations (23)
72. Costly price discrimination
    Economics Letters, 2008, 99, (1), 206-208 View citations (8)
73. Escaping Poverty: Foreign Aid, Private Property, and Economic Development
    Journal of Private Enterprise, 2008, 23, (Spring 2008), 39-64 View citations (26)
74. Government intervention and the structure of social capital
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2008, 21, (2), 209-218 View citations (6)
75. How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making
    Journal of Economic Issues, 2008, 42, (3), 727-743
76. How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest
    American Law and Economics Review, 2008, 10, (1), 61-89 View citations (40)
77. Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, 67, (2), 331-358 View citations (233)
    See also Chapter Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics, Chapters, 2015, 123-146 (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
78. Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22, (2), 155-169 View citations (80)
79. Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2008, 37, (1), 161-188 View citations (83)
80. Weathering Corruption
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2008, 51, (4), 667-681 View citations (76)

2007

81. An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization
    Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 115, (6), 1049-1094 View citations (188)
82. Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2007, 163, (3), 467-482 View citations (22)
83. Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity
    Review of Social Economy, 2007, 65, (2), 141-164 View citations (7)
84. Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35, (4), 689-710 View citations (131)
85. Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence
    Public Choice, 2007, 130, (1), 245-247
86. Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice
    Public Choice, 2007, 133, (1), 253-256 View citations (3)
87. Efficient anarchy
    Public Choice, 2007, 130, (1), 41-53 View citations (62)
88. 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 (21)
89. Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2007, 18, (2), 127-143 View citations (31)
90. The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina
    Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74, (2), 363-376 View citations (12)
91. The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 23, (3), 237-250 View citations (9)
92. Trading with Bandits
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 50, (2), 303-321 View citations (103)

2006

93. Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19, (2), 137-147 View citations (19)
94. Cooperation and Conflict
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2006, 65, (4), 891-907 View citations (62)
95. Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error
    Review of Political Economy, 2006, 18, (1), 79-90 View citations (7)
96. Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis
    Public Choice, 2006, 127, (1), 55-73 View citations (119)
97. Robust political economy
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19, (2), 107-111 View citations (70)
98. Was Mises right?
    Review of Social Economy, 2006, 64, (2), 247-265 View citations (12)

2005

99. 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 View citations (1)
100. Endogenizing fractionalization
     Journal of Institutional Economics, 2005, 1, (1), 75-98 View citations (81)
101. 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
102. Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy
     Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 57, (2), 241-244 View citations (12)
103. The New Comparative Political Economy
     The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18, (3), 281-304 View citations (35)

2004

104. Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development
     Kyklos, 2004, 57, (1), 21-44 View citations (32)
105. The Many Faces of the Market
     Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2004, 14, (2), 18 View citations (6)
106. The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries
     Cato Journal, 2004, 24, (3), 235-249 View citations (80)

2003

107. Contracts Without Government
     Journal of Private Enterprise, 2003, 18, (Spring 2003), 35-54 View citations (6)
108. IS THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO THE MARKET?
     Economic Affairs, 2003, 23, (1), 33-39 View citations (6)

Books

2014

1. Anarchy Unbound
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (20)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2014) View citations (5)

2009

2. Media, Development, and Institutional Change
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (14)

Edited books

2015

1. The Economic Role of the State
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (7)

2006

2. The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises, vol Two volume set
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (2)

Chapters

2023

1. Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government
   Chapter 23 in Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems, 2023, pp 397-411
2. It Began with Richard Nixon
   Springer

2017

3. Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics
   Chapter 3 in Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics, 2017, pp 46-62

2015

4. Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics
   Chapter 6 in Culture and Economic Action, 2015, pp 123-146 View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2008) View citations (233) (2008)
5. Superstition and Self-Governance
   A chapter in New Thinking in Austrian Political Economy, 2015, vol. 19, pp 47-66 View citations (8)

2014

6. Hayek versus the neoclassicists: lessons from the socialist calculation debate
   Chapter 12 in Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics, 2014, pp 278-293 View citations (3)

2011

7. Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences
   Chapter 4 in The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, 2011

2010

8. Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create?
   Chapter 10 in Handbook on Contemporary Austrian Economics, 2010 View citations (6)
9. Land Grab
   Palgrave Macmillan
10. The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management
    Chapter 3 in The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound, 2010 View citations (12)

2008

11. By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economicskornai's
    A chapter in A Research Annual, 2008, pp 209-219
12. The continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek's political economy
    A chapter in Explorations in Austrian Economics, 2008, pp 79-98

2005

13. Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement?
    Chapter 7 in Anarchy, State and Public Choice, 2005 View citations (4)

Editor

1. Public Choice
   Springer