Journal Articles

"The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation" (with A. Dean). American Journal of Political Science 53(3) 2009: 533-551.

"Two-Tiered Entrepreneurship and Economic Development" (with P. Boettke). International Review of Law and Economics, forthcoming.

"The Calculus of Piratical Consent: The Myth of the Myth of Social Contract." Public Choice 139(3-4) 2009: 443-459.

"The Invisible Hook: The Law and Economics of Pirate Tolerance." New York University Journal of Law and Liberty, forthcoming.

"Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement" (with C. Coyne). Kyklos 62(1) 2009: 1-14.

"The Laws of Lawlessness." Journal of Legal Studies, forthcoming.

"How Important is State Enforcement for Trade?" American Law and Economics Review 10(1) 2008: 61-89.

"Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(2) 2008: 155-169.

"An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization." Journal of Political Economy 115(6) 2007: 1049-1094.

"Weathering Corruption" (with R. Sobel). Journal of Law and Economics 51(4) 2008: 667-681.

"Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange." Journal of Legal Studies 37(1) 2008: 161-188.

"Costly Price Discrimination" (with R. Sobel). Economics Letters 99(1) 2008: 206-208.

"Coordination without Command: Stretching the Scope of Spontaneous Order." Public Choice 135(1-2) 2008: 67-78.

"How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making" (with C. Coyne). Journal of Economic Issues 42(3) 2008: 727-743.

"The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek's Political Economy" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). Advances in Austrian Economics 11 2008: 79-98.

"We're All Austrians Now: Janos Kornai and the Austrian School of Economics." Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 26(A) 2008: 209-219.

"Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). American Journal of Economics and Sociology 67(2) 2008: 331-358.

"Government Intervention and the Structure of Social Capital" (with A. Carilli and C. Coyne). Review of Austrian Economics 21(2-3) 2008: 209-218.

"The Evolution of Economics: Where We are and How We Got Here" (with P. Boettke and D. Smith). Long Term View 7(1) 2008: 14-22.

"Escaping Poverty: Foreign Aid, Private Property, and Economic Development." Journal of Private Enterprise 23(2) 2008: 39-64.

"Centralization Proves Inadequate to Disaster Aid" (with R. Sobel). Journal of International Peace Operations 3(4) 2008: 11-12.

"Better Off Stateless: Somalia Before and After Government Collapse." Journal of Comparative Economics 35(4) 2007: 689-710.

"The Reformers' Dilemma: Media, Policy Ownership, and Reform" (with C. Coyne). European Journal of Law and Economics 23(3) 2007: 237-250.

"Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development" (with J. Hall). Journal of Labor Research 28(4) 2007: 658-676.

"The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina" (with P. Boettke, E. Chamlee-Wright, P. Gordon, S. Ikeda, and R. Sobel). Southern Economic Journal 74(2) 2007: 363-376.

"Trading with Bandits." Journal of Law and Economics 50(2) 2007: 303-321.

"Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 163(3) 2007: 467-482.

"The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?" (with R. Sobel and C. Coyne). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 17(2-3) 2007: 49-65.

"Balkanization and Assimilation: Examining the Effects of State-Created Homogeneity." Review of Social Economy 65(2) 2007: 141-164.

"Efficient Anarchy." Public Choice 130(1-2) 2007: 41-53.

"Saving Government Failure Theory from Itself: Recasting Political Economy from an Austrian Perspective" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). Constitutional Political Economy 18(2) 2007: 127-143.

"Does Globalization Require Global Government?" Indian Journal of Economics and Business (Special Issue) 2007: 7-17.

"The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management" (with R. Sobel). Independent Review 11(4) 2007: 519-532.

"One More Time with Feeling: The Law Merchant, Arbitration, and International Trade." Indian Journal of Economics and Business (Special Issue) 2007: 29-34.

"Comparing Apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the Remaining Post-Socialist World" (with W. Trumbull). Post-Soviet Affairs 22(3) 2006: 225-248.

"Cooperation and Conflict: Evidence on Self-Enforcing Arrangements and Hetergeneous Groups." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 65(4) 2006: 891-907.

"High Priests and Lowly Philosophers: The Battle for the Soul of Economics" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). Case Western Reserve Law Review 56(3) 2006: 551-568.

"How Much Benevolence is Benevolent Enough?" Public Choice 126(3-4) 2006: 357-366.

"Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Public Choice Analysis" (with R. Sobel). Public Choice 127(1-2) 2006: 55-73.

"Was Mises Right?" (with P. Boettke). Review of Social Economy 64(2) 2006: 247-265.

"Robust Political Economy" (with J. Subrick). Review of Austrian Economics 19(2-3) 2006: 107-111.

"Does the Market Self-Correct? Asymmetrical Adjustment and the Structure of Economic Error" (with C. Coyne and P. Boettke). Review of Political Economy 18(1) 2006: 79-90.

"Converting Social Conflict: Focal Points and the Evolution of Coordination" (with C. Coyne and P. Boettke). Review of Austrian Economics 19(2-3) 2006: 137-147.

"Who's to Protect Cyberspace?" (with C. Coyne). Journal of Law, Economics and Policy 1(2) 2005: 473-495.

"Manipulating the Media" (with C. Coyne). Institutions and Economic Development 1(2) 2005: 67-92.

"Socialism: Still Impossible After All these Years" (with P. Boettke). Critical Review 17(1-2) 2005: 177-192.

"Endogenizing Fractionalization." Journal of Institutional Economics 1(1) 2005: 75-98.

"Self-Enforcing Arrangements in African Political Economy." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 57(2) 2005: 241-244.

"The Economics of Computer Hacking" (with C. Coyne). Journal of Law, Economics and Policy 1(2) 2005: 511-532.

"Social Cooperation and the Apparent Tension between Personal and Impersonal Exchange." Ama-Gi 7(1) 2005: 1-18.

"Is Government Inevitable?" (with E. Stringham). Independent Review  9(4) 2005: 543-549.

"The New Comparative Political Economy" (with P. Boettke, C. Coyne, and F. Sautet). Review of Austrian Economics 18(3-4) 2005: 281-304.

"Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development" (with C. Coyne). Kyklos 57(1) 2004: 21-44.

"The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries" (with C. Coyne). Cato Journal 24(3) 2004: 235-249.

"The Many Faces of the Market" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines 14(2) 2004: 71-86.

"Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy" (with P. Boettke). Journal of Markets and Morality 7(1) 2004: 99-111.

"Is the Transition to the Market too Important to be Left to the Market?" (with P. Boettke). Economic Affairs 23(1) 2003: 33-39.

"Contracts without Government." Journal of Private Enterprise 18(2) 2003: 35-54.

"Lessons from the Investor’s Roadmap: Implementation Challenges and An Exploratory Assessment of the Major Barriers to Rural Entrepreneurship from a New Institutional Economic Perspective" (with C. Coyne and P. Aligica). USAID Forum Series: The Role of Institutions in Promoting Economic Growth, September 17, 2003.

"Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought 43(1) 2003: 1-10.

"Hayek, Arrow, and the Problems of Democratic Decision-Making" (with P. Boettke). Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 20(1) 2002: 9-21.

Book Chapters

"Somalia: Understanding the Feasible Institutions" (with C. Coyne). In Frank Columbus, ed., Somalia: Economic, Political and Social Issues. New York: Nova, forthcoming.

"Lex Mercatoria." In Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut K. Anheier, eds., Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, forthcoming.

"Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create?" In Peter Boettke, ed., Handbook of Austrian Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

"Do Markets Need Government?" In Stephen Copp, ed., Legal Foundations of the Free Market. London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2008.

"James M. Buchanan." In Ronald Hamoway, ed., Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage, 2008.

"Hayek vs. the Neoclassicists: Lessons from the Socialist Calculation Debate" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). In Norman Barry, ed., Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics. UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

"Mises and His System: Past Work and Future Prospects" (with P. Boettke). In Steven Horwitz, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Austrian Economists. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

"Entrepreneurship or Entremanureship? Digging through Romania's Institutional Environment for Transition Lessons" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). In Benjamin Powell, ed., Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.

"The Spread of Global Economic Freedom" (with R. Sobel). In James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, Economic Freedom in the World: 2007 Annual Report. Canada: Fraser Institute, 2007.

"Why Capitalism Works" (with R. Sobel). In Russell Sobel, ed., Unleashing Capitalism: Why Prosperity Stops at the West Virginia Border and How to Fix it. Morgantown: The Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, 2007.

"Liberal Tolerance as Robust Political Economy" (with P. Boettke). In Gerson Moreno-Riano, ed., Tolerance in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006.

"Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement?" In Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State, and Public Choice. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005.

"An Austrian Perspective on Public Choice" (with P. Boettke). In Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds., Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003.

"The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000" (with P. Boettke). In Warren Samuels, Jeff Biddle and John Davis, eds., A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003.

"Public Choice and Socialism" (with P. Boettke). In Charles Rowley and Friedrich Schneider, eds., Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2003.

Book Reviews

Review of Scott Gehlbach, Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States. Public Choice, forthcoming.

Review of Clark Gibson, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, and Sujai Shivakumar, The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 66(2) 2008: 437-440.

Review of Espen Moe, Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750-2000. EH.Net, July 2007.

Review of Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice. Public Choice 133(1-2) 2007: 253-256.

Review of Roger Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg, eds., Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence. Public Choice 130(1-2) 2007: 245-247.

Review of Gary Stern and Ron Feldman, Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 56(3) 2005: 448-450.

Review of Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein, Better Together: Restoring the American Community. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 64(3) 2005: 961-963.

Review of Alexander Field, Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Review of Austrian Economics 18(2) 2005: 223-226.

Policy Papers

"The Impact of FEMA on U.S. Corruption: Implications for Policy" (with R. Sobel). Mercatus Policy Series, Policy Comment No. 8, January 2007. Arlington: Mercatus Center.

"Flirting with Disaster: The Inherent Problems with FEMA" (with R. Sobel). Policy Analysis, No. 573, July 19, 2006. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute.

"Land Management: Incentives Matter." Michigan Privatization Report 99(4) 2000: 8-9.

"Opposing Judicial Philosophies Court Michigan Voters." Viewpoint on Public Issues, No. 2000-32, Oct 2, 2000. Midland: Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

"Students, Teachers to Profit from the Inkster-Edison Partnership." Michigan Privatization Report 00(3) 2000: 10-11.

"Policy Makers Must Remember that Incentives Matter" (with L. Reed). Viewpoint on Public Issues, No. 2000-28, August 7, 2000. Midland: Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

"Land Ho! Should Government Be Landlord?" Michigan Privatization Report 99(1) 1999: 12, 17.

"Seek and Ye Shall FOIA." Michigan Privatization Report 98(3) 1998: 16-17.

"On the Road to Privatization." Michigan Privatization Report 98(2) 1998: 6, 14.

"What Indianapolis Can Teach Michigan." Michigan Privatization Report 98(4) 1998: 15,17.

"Contracting for Knowledge." Michigan Privatization Report 97(3) 1997: 6, 19.

Unpublished Manuscripts

"Rational Choice, Round Robin, and Rebellion: An Institutional Solution to the Problems of Revolution," 2008.

"Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices," 2008. Revising.

"The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions" (with N. Dutta). Revising.

"Race, Politics, and Punishment: Democratic Failure in the New Orleans Mayoral Election" (with R. Sobel), 2008.

"Contagious Capitalism" (with R. Sobel), 2008.

"Scientism in the Way of Science: Hope for Heterodoxy in Modern Economics" (with G. Callahan), 2005.

"Think Tanks" (with M. Ryan), 2008. Revising.

"Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best" (with C. Williamson), 2009.

"Comparative Historical Political Economy: An Old Research Program in a Modern Age" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne), 2008.

"Land Grab: Takings, the Market Process, and Regime Uncertainty" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne), 2008.