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Billionaires 0 0 0 77 0 4 14 216
Billionaires 0 0 0 49 1 3 12 114
Magic, explanations, and evil: the origins and design of witches and sorcerers 0 0 0 3 6 12 31 131
Quasimarket failure 0 1 3 50 1 12 17 142
Total Working Papers 0 1 3 179 8 31 74 603
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"God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction 0 0 0 4 1 9 14 69
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 12
A normal market 0 0 0 2 0 6 16 26
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 1 3 153
An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition 0 0 0 39 4 8 13 165
An economic analysis of Magna Carta 1 1 1 19 3 5 10 112
An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization 2 2 21 396 6 21 81 2,341
Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best 0 2 10 82 2 13 31 457
Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation 0 0 0 38 5 10 14 225
Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective 0 1 9 24 18 50 104 264
Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity 0 0 0 13 0 2 10 110
Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse 1 2 7 129 7 28 51 721
Billionaires 0 0 2 18 0 3 14 124
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, $35.00 0 0 1 96 0 5 8 357
Celestial Anarchy: A Threat to Outer Space Commerce? 0 0 0 23 3 11 13 161
Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul 0 0 0 9 0 2 3 47
Child brides 0 0 0 26 1 7 11 149
Comparative historical political economy 0 1 2 61 1 7 19 189
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 0 5 10 127
Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation 0 0 1 34 0 4 6 150
Cooperation and Conflict 0 0 0 16 0 2 9 145
Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order 0 0 0 36 0 3 6 125
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 2 4 11 172
Criminal constitutions 8 9 11 28 26 36 44 103
Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence 0 0 0 37 1 5 5 125
Do we need behavioral economics to explain law? 0 0 1 30 0 1 8 132
Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error 0 1 1 21 1 4 7 222
Earw(h)ig: I can’t hear you because your ideas are old 0 0 0 8 0 6 15 77
Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution 0 0 0 14 6 11 24 119
Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) 0 0 2 34 4 15 33 114
Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice 0 0 0 47 0 0 2 184
Efficient anarchy 0 1 1 45 2 8 17 252
Endogenizing fractionalization 0 0 1 46 0 3 10 161
Externality and COVID‐19 1 1 1 6 3 10 15 53
Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 6
Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman, Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004) 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0 0 0 0 263 1 5 8 1,000
Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development 0 0 0 15 0 3 8 148
Government intervention and the structure of social capital 0 0 0 58 0 3 4 167
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 1 6 172 2 9 29 836
Government, clubs, and constitutions 0 0 1 27 0 2 10 128
Gypsy law 0 0 0 8 2 3 10 101
Hate groups and hate crime 0 0 3 73 0 5 10 263
Hobo Economicus 0 1 1 10 0 6 8 47
Hooligans 0 1 1 32 0 4 13 160
How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7
How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest 0 0 0 13 2 5 7 81
Human Sacrifice 0 0 0 28 0 7 17 209
IS THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO THE MARKET? 0 0 1 30 0 3 7 182
Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics 0 0 2 157 7 21 49 661
Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle 0 1 1 19 3 9 17 96
Kornai goes to Kenya 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 20
Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists 0 1 1 14 1 5 12 74
Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation 0 0 0 32 0 6 11 434
Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement 0 0 1 34 1 6 23 216
Oracles 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 72
Ordeals 0 0 0 23 3 11 23 179
Organizing Crime 1 2 4 8 3 11 21 57
Pirates 0 1 1 20 0 3 4 91
Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law 0 0 1 23 1 7 15 122
Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices 0 1 2 71 2 9 16 368
Predatory private governance 0 0 1 1 5 13 20 20
Prenups 0 0 2 13 5 16 34 103
Public choice and public health 0 0 3 11 0 8 21 63
Quasimarket failure 0 0 0 10 0 5 11 79
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 20
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance 0 0 0 11 0 2 10 126
Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution 0 0 0 17 0 2 7 177
Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development 0 2 5 644 3 12 38 2,498
Regulating quack medicine 0 0 0 11 0 7 11 94
Robust political economy 0 0 0 19 0 5 12 155
Sassywood 0 0 1 16 1 11 19 148
Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective 0 0 0 64 1 6 11 329
Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 65
Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy 0 0 0 24 0 2 2 103
Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange 0 0 0 18 0 3 12 144
Testing rational choice theories of institutional change 0 0 0 8 1 5 7 37
The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions 0 0 1 67 0 1 4 241
The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 3 9 6 12 30 84
The Laws of Lawlessness 0 0 1 39 0 5 17 225
The Many Faces of the Market 0 0 0 12 0 3 6 85
The New Comparative Political Economy 0 0 0 89 0 4 6 309
The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries 0 0 1 45 1 4 5 234
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 1 2 4 1 3 7 16
The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance 0 0 0 2 0 3 6 19
The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker 0 1 1 7 0 5 10 46
The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract 0 1 1 28 1 11 19 155
The costs of conflict 0 0 0 38 2 8 13 156
The golden age of mercenaries 0 0 1 9 0 8 14 44
The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano 0 0 0 12 0 3 4 87
The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform 0 0 0 16 3 5 8 98
Think tanks 0 0 1 38 1 5 10 180
Trading with Bandits 0 0 0 31 1 10 18 203
Trading with the Dead 0 0 0 7 1 7 10 33
Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development 0 0 0 42 1 6 9 217
Vermin Trials 1 4 11 27 3 11 22 164
Was Mises right? 0 0 0 54 2 6 14 220
Was privateering plunder efficient? 0 0 1 46 2 4 16 825
Wealth-destroying private property rights 0 0 2 31 0 4 13 206
Weathering Corruption 0 1 1 68 0 6 14 267
What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis 0 0 0 5 0 6 6 51
What Can Aid Do? 0 0 0 17 1 2 4 83
Wife Sales 0 0 0 7 0 5 13 77
Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules 0 0 0 0 2 6 6 57
Witch Trials 0 3 11 80 11 34 85 471
Total Journal Articles 15 43 148 4,322 182 749 1,602 22,682
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Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 30
Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 34
Media, Development, and Institutional Change 0 0 1 16 0 3 8 69
Total Books 0 0 1 16 4 12 28 133


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create? 0 0 3 54 3 11 22 142
By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economicskornai's 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences 0 0 0 22 1 8 11 67
Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics 0 1 1 13 1 6 7 61
Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 0 0 1 6 0 5 8 26
Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement? 0 0 1 13 0 3 8 51
Hayek versus the neoclassicists: lessons from the socialist calculation debate 0 1 2 26 1 8 14 105
Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics 2 2 6 34 15 26 63 271
It Began with Richard Nixon 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 8
Land Grab 0 0 0 1 0 2 9 14
Superstition and Self-Governance 0 0 0 12 0 3 6 69
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 0 2 7 65
The continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek's political economy 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 11
Total Chapters 2 4 14 186 21 81 167 894
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Statistics updated 2026-04-09