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Billionaires 0 0 0 49 0 1 9 115
Billionaires 0 0 0 77 1 2 16 221
Magic, explanations, and evil: the origins and design of witches and sorcerers 0 0 0 3 1 1 24 134
Quasimarket failure 0 0 1 50 1 1 14 143
Total Working Papers 0 0 1 179 3 5 63 613
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"God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction 0 0 0 4 0 1 15 73
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 13
A normal market 0 0 0 2 1 2 16 31
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 0 0 0 36 0 0 3 154
An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition 0 0 0 39 0 1 16 169
An economic analysis of Magna Carta 0 1 2 20 0 1 15 117
An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization 5 9 26 410 12 23 91 2,383
Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best 0 0 8 83 0 1 29 464
Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation 0 0 0 38 0 1 18 230
Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective 0 1 7 26 0 12 115 298
Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity 0 0 0 13 0 0 9 110
Beggars as Rational Choosers 0 1 1 1 0 5 5 5
Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse 1 1 6 130 2 5 74 750
Billionaires 0 0 0 18 1 5 27 141
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, $35.00 0 0 0 96 0 1 11 362
Celestial Anarchy: A Threat to Outer Space Commerce? 0 0 0 23 0 1 13 163
Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 47
Child brides 0 0 0 26 0 0 9 151
Comparative historical political economy 0 0 2 61 1 1 20 194
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 0 1 16 136
Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation 0 0 1 34 0 1 10 154
Cooperation and Conflict 0 0 0 16 1 4 13 150
Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order 0 0 0 36 0 0 10 130
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 1 1 13 179
Criminal constitutions 0 1 17 34 2 4 54 114
Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence 0 0 0 37 1 1 9 129
Do we need behavioral economics to explain law? 3 3 5 35 6 6 21 148
Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error 0 0 1 21 2 3 12 227
Earw(h)ig: I can’t hear you because your ideas are old 0 0 0 8 1 1 14 81
Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution 0 0 1 15 0 1 30 131
Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) 0 1 1 35 3 7 35 124
Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice 0 0 0 47 0 0 4 187
Efficient anarchy 1 2 3 47 1 3 21 257
Endogenizing fractionalization 0 0 1 46 1 2 10 164
Externality and COVID‐19 0 0 1 6 0 2 14 56
Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 11
Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman, Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004) 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0 0 1 1 264 0 3 12 1,006
Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development 1 1 1 16 4 5 15 156
Government intervention and the structure of social capital 0 0 1 59 0 1 7 170
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 0 6 172 1 2 29 843
Government, clubs, and constitutions 0 0 1 27 0 0 6 128
Gypsy law 0 1 1 9 0 3 13 108
Hate groups and hate crime 0 0 0 73 0 1 12 268
Hobo Economicus 0 0 1 10 0 3 10 50
Hooligans 0 0 1 32 1 1 16 167
How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 10
How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest 0 0 0 13 1 1 11 85
Human Sacrifice 0 2 2 30 1 4 20 217
IS THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO THE MARKET? 0 0 0 30 0 0 38 214
Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics 0 0 3 158 1 5 53 672
Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle 0 0 1 19 0 1 20 101
Kornai goes to Kenya 0 0 0 1 0 1 11 27
Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists 0 0 1 14 1 3 15 80
Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation 0 0 1 33 1 1 14 440
Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement 0 0 1 34 1 1 25 222
Oracles 0 0 0 10 1 2 13 78
Ordeals 1 1 5 28 2 12 38 199
Organizing Crime 0 0 4 8 2 3 25 65
Pirates 0 0 1 20 0 2 7 94
Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law 0 0 1 23 1 2 15 126
Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices 0 0 1 71 0 0 17 373
Predatory private governance 0 0 2 2 2 2 29 29
Prenups 1 2 4 16 1 23 91 164
Public choice and public health 0 0 2 12 0 1 22 71
Quasimarket failure 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 79
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 21
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance 0 0 0 11 1 2 12 131
Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 181
Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development 0 0 3 645 0 0 32 2,505
Regulating quack medicine 0 0 0 11 0 0 10 95
Robust political economy 0 0 0 19 0 3 16 162
Sassywood 0 0 0 16 0 1 21 153
Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective 0 0 0 64 1 1 11 331
Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States 0 0 0 9 0 1 8 70
Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy 0 0 0 24 0 1 4 105
Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange 0 0 0 18 0 2 11 147
Testing rational choice theories of institutional change 0 0 0 8 0 1 12 42
The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions 0 0 1 68 0 1 3 243
The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 1 9 0 10 40 100
The Laws of Lawlessness 0 0 0 39 0 8 21 234
The Many Faces of the Market 0 0 0 12 0 1 10 90
The New Comparative Political Economy 0 0 0 89 0 1 10 313
The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries 0 0 5 49 0 1 38 267
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 0 3 5 0 0 9 18
The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 21
The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker 0 0 1 7 2 3 11 49
The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract 0 0 1 28 1 3 23 161
The costs of conflict 0 0 0 38 0 1 13 159
The golden age of mercenaries 0 0 1 9 1 2 18 49
The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano 0 0 0 12 0 2 8 91
The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform 0 0 0 16 0 1 10 100
Think tanks 0 1 2 39 0 1 15 188
Trading with Bandits 0 0 0 31 0 0 18 205
Trading with the Dead 0 0 0 7 0 1 12 37
Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development 0 0 0 42 0 0 8 218
Vermin Trials 0 0 8 29 5 8 28 179
Was Mises right? 0 0 2 56 0 2 21 229
Was privateering plunder efficient? 0 0 1 46 1 3 16 830
Wealth-destroying private property rights 0 0 0 31 1 1 16 214
Weathering Corruption 1 1 3 70 2 4 20 275
What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis 0 0 0 5 0 1 8 53
What Can Aid Do? 0 0 0 17 0 0 5 85
Wife Sales 0 0 0 7 1 4 22 88
Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 58
Witch Trials 0 2 14 85 1 10 106 506
Total Journal Articles 14 32 171 4,394 75 267 2,069 23,478
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Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 33
Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 2 3 14 43
Media, Development, and Institutional Change 0 0 0 16 0 1 8 71
Total Books 0 0 0 16 3 5 31 147


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create? 0 0 1 55 1 2 24 148
By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economicskornai's 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences 0 1 1 23 0 1 13 69
Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics 0 0 1 13 0 0 9 63
Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 0 0 1 6 0 0 10 29
Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement? 0 0 1 13 0 0 6 52
Hayek versus the neoclassicists: lessons from the socialist calculation debate 0 0 5 29 1 3 21 114
Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics 0 0 7 36 3 4 56 288
It Began with Richard Nixon 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 14
Land Grab 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 15
Superstition and Self-Governance 0 0 0 12 1 2 12 76
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 0 1 7 69
The continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek's political economy 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 14
Total Chapters 0 1 17 193 9 17 187 958
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