Journal Articles

"Two Cheers for Capitalism?" Society, forthcoming.

"Opportunism and Organization Under the Black Flag." Organizational Dynamics, forthcoming.

"Criminal Constitutions" (with D. Skarbek). Global Crime, forthcoming.

"Takings" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming.

"The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance" (with J. Hall). International Advances in Economic Research, forthcoming.

"Rational Choice, Round Robin, and Rebellion: An Institutional Solution to the Problems of Revolution." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.

"What Can Aid Do?" (with D. Skarbek). Cato Journal 29(3) 2009: 391-397.

"Racial Fractionalization and School Performance" (with J. Hall). American Journal of Economics and Sociology, forthcoming.

"Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best" (with C. Williamson). Law and Development Review 2(1) 2009: 77-96.

"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 29(3) 2009: 252-259.

"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 4(2) 2009: 139-171.

"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 38(2) 2009: 471-503.

"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.

"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

"Land Grab: Takings, the Market Process, and Regime Uncertainty" (with P. Boettke and C. Coyne). In Bruce L. Benson, ed., Property Wrongs: The Law and Economics of Takings. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.

"Can't We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions, and Economic Consequences" (with C. Williamson). In Christopher J. Coyne, ed., The Handbook on the Political Economy of War. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

"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

"What Human Action Has Meant to Me: Reflections of a Young Economist." Freeman 59(7) 2009: 19-21.

Review of Scott Gehlbach, Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States. Public Choice 141(3-4) 2009: 523-525.

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

"Economics, Piracy, and the Law." CIP Report 8(1) 2009: 7-8, 19.

"The Impact of FEMA Reorganization: Implications for Policy" (with C. Coyne and R. Sobel). Mercatus Policy Series, Policy Comment No. 24, February 2009. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center.

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

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

"Conflict-Inhibiting Social Norms" (with C. Coyne), 2010.

"Ordeals," 2009.

"Rationality, Pirates, and the Law: A Retrospective," 2009.

"Organizing Crime" (with D. Rogers), 2009.

"Efficient Plunder" (with A. Nowrasteh), 2009.
 
"The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions" (with N. Dutta), 2009.

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

"Contagious Capitalism" (with R. Sobel and A. Dean), 2009.

"Scientism in the Way of Science" (with G. Callahan), 2005. Revising.

"Think Tanks" (with M. Ryan and C. Williamson), 2009. Revising.

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

"Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices," 2009.

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