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Working Papers

2008

1. When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item‐Pricing Laws
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (8)
   Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2006) View citations (6)
   Law and Economics, University Library of Munich, Germany (2005) View citations (4)
   Working Papers, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics (2004) View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item-Pricing Laws, Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press (2008) View citations (28) (2008)

Journal Articles

2022

1. What Are Your Most Underappreciated Works?: First Tranche of Responses
   Econ Journal Watch, 2022, 19, (2), 320–328

2015

2. Crony Capitalism
   Supreme Court Economic Review, 2015, 23, (1), 105 - 120

2014

3. Buchanan, Economics, and Politics
   Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80, (4), 912-917
4. Emporiophobia (Fear of Markets): Cooperation or Competition?
   Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80, (4), 875-889
5. Pathological Altruism and Pathological Regulation
   Cato Journal, 2014, 34, (1), 171-183

2011

6. From the 'econometrics of capital punishment' to the 'capital punishment' of econometrics: on the use and abuse of sensitivity analysis
   Applied Economics, 2011, 43, (25), 3655-3670 View citations (6)
7. Markets, Tort Law, and Regulation to Achieve Safety
   Cato Journal, 2011, 31, (2), 217-236 View citations (2)

2010

8. Managerial economics: a forward looking assessment
   Managerial and Decision Economics, 2010, 31, (8), 497-501 View citations (1)

2008

9. Do managers listen to the market?
   Journal of Corporate Finance, 2008, 14, (4), 347-362 View citations (65)
10. The Demographics of Tort Reform
    Review of Law & Economics, 2008, 4, (2), 591-620 View citations (8)
11. The Economics of the Bill of Rights
    American Law and Economics Review, 2008, 10, (1), 1-60 View citations (2)
12. When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item-Pricing Laws
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2008, 51, (2), 209-250 View citations (28)
    Also in EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2008, 51, (2), 209-250 (2008) View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item‐Pricing Laws, Post-Print (2008) View citations (8) (2008)

2007

13. Tort Reform and Accidental Deaths
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 50, (2), 221-238 View citations (21)
14. Utility, Fitness, and Immigration: Reply to Salter
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2007, 9, (1), 53-67

2006

15. Economics of Crime
    Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics, 2006, 2, (3), 205-279 View citations (99)
16. Fairness versus welfare
    Public Choice, 2006, 127, (1), 231-234
17. Reply to Donohue and Wolfers on the Death Penalty and Deterrence
    The Economists' Voice, 2006, 3, (5), 3 View citations (5)
18. Reply: The Death Penalty Once More
    The Economists' Voice, 2006, 3, (6), 2 View citations (3)

2005

19. Public choice and tort reform
    Public Choice, 2005, 124, (1), 223-236 View citations (18)

2004

20. Introduction to special issue: Comments on 'costs of addicted gamblers'
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2004, 25, (4), 177-178
21. Reinventing the bazaar: A natural history of markets, by John McMillan. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002, x +278 pp., USD25.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-393-05021-1
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2004, 25, (8), 549-550
22. The evolution of honesty
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 54, (1), 1-17 View citations (13)

2003

23. Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect? New Evidence from Postmoratorium Panel Data
    American Law and Economics Review, 2003, 5, (2), 344-376 View citations (58)
24. Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates: Mapping Out the Consequences of the Exclusionary Rule
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, 46, (1), 157-79 View citations (8)
25. Folk Economics
    Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 70, (1), 157-171
26. The effect of concealed handgun laws on crime: beyond the dummy variables
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2003, 23, (2), 199-216 View citations (15)

2002

27. The Effects of Product Liability Litigation on the Value of Firms
    American Law and Economics Review, 2002, 4, (1), 44-87 View citations (26)
28. The Growth of Government
    Public Choice, 2002, 113, (3-4), 389-402 View citations (24)

2001

29. Litigation versus Legislation: Forum Shopping by Rent Seekers
    Public Choice, 2001, 107, (3-4), 295-310 View citations (21)

2000

30. In Memoriam: Peter H. Aranson, 1943-1999
    Public Choice, 2000, 104, (3-4), 201-05

1999

31. Humans as factors of production: an evolutionary analysis
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 1999, 19, (7-8), 441-455 View citations (4)
32. Mitigating Agency Problems by Advertising, with Special Reference to Managed Health Care
    Southern Economic Journal, 1999, 66, (1), 39-60

1998

33. Lives Saved or Lives Lost? The Effects of Concealed-Handgun Laws on Crime
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 468-74 View citations (30)

1994

34. A positive theory of legal change
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1994, 14, (4), 467-477 View citations (25)
35. The Assault on the First Amendment: Public Choice and Political Correctness
    Cato Journal, 1994, 14, (1), 23-36 View citations (5)
36. The Role of Lawyers in Changing the Law
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 1994, 23, (2), 807-31 View citations (24)

1993

37. Ideology, Voting, and Shirking
    Public Choice, 1993, 76, (1-2), 151-72 View citations (24)

1992

38. Book Review: Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth by Gerald Scully
    Cato Journal, 1992, 12, (2), 505-507
39. Consequences of Damage Awards for Hedonic and Other Nonpecuniary Losses
    Journal of Forensic Economics, 1992, 5, (3), 249-260 View citations (2)
40. Politically Imposed Entry Barriers
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1992, 18, (3), 333-344 View citations (1)
41. Some Implications of Damage Payments for Nonpecuniary Losses
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 1992, 21, (2), 371-411 View citations (18)

1991

42. The Economics of Regulating Deception
    Cato Journal, 1991, 10, (3), 667-690 View citations (3)

1989

43. Cost‐Benefit Analysis of All‐Terrain Vehicles at the CPSC
    Risk Analysis, 1989, 9, (1), 63-69

1988

44. Shadow interest groups and safety regulation
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1988, 8, (1), 21-36

1986

45. Costs and benefits of a duty to rescue
    International Review of Law and Economics, 1986, 6, (2), 273-276 View citations (2)
46. Counterfeit Goods
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1986, 29, (2), 211-30 View citations (14)

1985

47. The limits of the equity-efficiency tradeoff
    Public Choice, 1985, 47, (3), 425-436 View citations (1)
48. The specification of models of campaign finance
    Public Choice, 1985, 47, (1), 113-119

1984

49. Economic and ideological factors in congressional voting: The 1980 election
    Public Choice, 1984, 44, (2), 385-388 View citations (4)
50. Shifting involvements: Private interest and public action: Albert O. Hirschman, (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1982) pp. 138, $14.50 hardback, $6.95 paper
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1984, 5, (3-4), 410-411

1983

51. The objectives of private and public judges
    Public Choice, 1983, 41, (1), 133-137 View citations (3)

1982

52. A General Equilibrium Model of Congressional Voting
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1982, 97, (2), 271-293 View citations (58)
53. Evolved ethics and efficient ethics
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1982, 3, (2-3), 161-174 View citations (15)

1981

54. The Output Distribution Frontier: Comment
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (4), 796-99
55. The size of government
    Public Choice, 1981, 37, (2), 261-274 View citations (52)

1980

56. The economics of the women's movement
    Public Choice, 1980, 35, (3), 287-295 View citations (1)

1979

57. An Evolutionary Model of Taste for Risk
    Economic Inquiry, 1979, 17, (4), 585-96 View citations (54)
58. Public interest lobbies: membership and influence
    Public Choice, 1979, 34, (1), 45-54 View citations (13)
59. Self-Interest, Ideology, and Logrolling in Congressional Voting
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1979, 22, (2), 365-84 View citations (108)
60. The Differential Impact in Competition and Monopoly of a Change in Costs on Price and Quantity
    The American Economist, 1979, 23, (1), 41-43

1978

61. The Theory of the Firm and the Structure of the Franchise Contract
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1978, 21, (1), 223-33 View citations (227)
62. Voting on Minimum Wages: A Time-Series Analysis
    Journal of Political Economy, 1978, 86, (2), 337-42 View citations (19)

1977

63. An empirical investigation of voting on energy issues
    Public Choice, 1977, 31, (1), 121-128 View citations (5)
64. The electoral college and the rational vote: A correction
    Public Choice, 1977, 29, (1), 155-156 View citations (1)

1976

65. The electoral college and the rational vote
    Public Choice, 1976, 27, (1), 101-107 View citations (4)

1975

66. A Theory of the Determination of the Mark-up under Oligopoly: A Comment
    Economic Journal, 1975, 85, (337), 148-49
67. On the form of special interest legislation
    Public Choice, 1975, 21, (1), 79-90 View citations (2)

1974

68. A General Equilibrium Problem
    The American Economist, 1974, 18, (1), 139-141

1973

69. The Expansion of Firms
    Journal of Political Economy, 1973, 81, (4), 936-49 View citations (52)

Books

Undated

1. Promises, Promises
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited books

2007

1. The Evolution of Efficient Common Law
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (2)

Chapters

2013

1. Public choice and the law
   Chapter 21 in The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, Second Edition, 2013, pp 345-361 View citations (1)

2012

2. Regulation of Information and Advertising
   Chapter 3 in Regulation and Economics, 2012

2011

3. Judge-made Law
   Chapter 6 in Production of Legal Rules, 2011
4. Rationality and Utility: Economics and Evolutionary Psychology
   Springer

2008

5. Legal Systems as Frameworks for Market Exchanges
   Springer
   Also in Springer (2005) View citations (6)

2005

6. HAYEK AND MODERN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
   A chapter in Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, 2005, pp 79-100

2001

7. Ideology
   Chapter 15 in The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, 2001 View citations (1)

Editor

1. Managerial and Decision Economics
   John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.