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Billionaires 0 0 1 77 0 0 10 203
Billionaires 0 0 0 49 0 1 3 104
Magic, explanations, and evil: the origins and design of witches and sorcerers 0 0 1 3 1 4 28 109
Quasimarket failure 0 0 3 49 0 0 9 129
Total Working Papers 0 0 5 178 1 5 50 545
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"God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 56
A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption†( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
A normal market 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 13
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 1 150
An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition 0 0 0 39 0 0 2 152
An economic analysis of Magna Carta 0 0 1 18 0 0 5 102
An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization 0 3 12 379 4 13 63 2,280
Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best 0 0 5 73 1 2 16 429
Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation 0 0 0 38 1 1 3 212
Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective 0 1 8 18 2 7 31 180
Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity 0 0 0 13 1 1 2 101
Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse 0 1 7 124 2 3 21 675
Billionaires 1 1 1 17 3 3 8 113
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, $35.00 0 0 0 95 0 1 2 350
Celestial Anarchy: A Threat to Outer Space Commerce? 0 0 2 23 0 2 8 150
Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 44
Child brides 0 0 1 26 2 2 9 140
Comparative historical political economy 0 0 1 59 1 2 10 173
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 1 24 1 2 4 119
Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation 0 0 1 33 0 0 2 144
Cooperation and Conflict 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 136
Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order 0 0 0 36 1 1 4 120
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 1 3 13 165
Criminal constitutions 0 0 1 17 0 0 4 59
Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence 0 0 1 37 0 0 2 120
Do we need behavioral economics to explain law? 0 0 2 30 1 1 9 127
Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 215
Earw(h)ig: I can’t hear you because your ideas are old 0 0 0 8 2 3 6 65
Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution 0 0 0 14 0 1 8 98
Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) 0 1 8 33 0 2 16 84
Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice 0 0 1 47 1 1 3 183
Efficient anarchy 0 0 0 44 0 0 6 235
Endogenizing fractionalization 0 0 1 45 0 1 7 152
Externality and COVID‐19 0 0 0 5 2 2 5 40
Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman, Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004) 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0 0 0 2 263 0 2 7 994
Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development 0 0 0 15 1 1 4 141
Government intervention and the structure of social capital 0 0 2 58 0 0 4 163
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 0 1 166 1 1 9 808
Government, clubs, and constitutions 0 0 1 26 0 1 6 120
Gypsy law 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 93
Hate groups and hate crime 0 1 1 71 0 1 4 254
Hobo Economicus 0 0 2 9 0 0 7 39
Hooligans 0 0 6 31 1 2 20 150
How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6
How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 74
Human Sacrifice 0 0 2 28 1 4 15 197
IS THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO THE MARKET? 0 1 1 30 0 1 2 176
Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics 0 0 0 155 1 1 6 614
Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle 0 0 0 18 1 2 5 81
Kornai goes to Kenya 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16
Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists 0 0 2 13 2 2 17 65
Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation 0 0 2 32 0 0 9 425
Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement 0 0 0 33 0 0 3 193
Oracles 0 0 1 10 0 2 4 64
Ordeals 0 0 1 23 1 3 7 159
Organizing Crime 0 0 2 4 1 3 13 39
Pirates 0 0 0 19 0 0 5 87
Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law 0 0 0 22 1 1 6 108
Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices 0 0 2 70 2 2 6 355
Prenups 1 1 1 12 1 2 6 72
Public choice and public health 0 1 5 9 1 2 21 46
Quasimarket failure 0 0 1 10 0 0 4 68
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 116
Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution 0 0 0 17 2 2 6 172
Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development 0 1 12 641 1 6 31 2,470
Regulating quack medicine 0 0 2 11 1 2 8 85
Robust political economy 0 0 0 19 1 2 7 145
Sassywood 0 0 1 16 0 1 3 131
Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective 0 0 1 64 0 0 5 318
Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 62
Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 101
Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange 0 0 1 18 1 3 6 136
Testing rational choice theories of institutional change 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 30
The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions 0 0 2 66 0 0 8 238
The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 0 6 1 4 11 58
The Laws of Lawlessness 0 0 1 38 1 2 6 211
The Many Faces of the Market 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 79
The New Comparative Political Economy 0 0 0 89 0 0 3 303
The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries 0 0 1 44 0 0 5 229
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 9
The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 14
The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker 0 0 1 6 0 0 3 37
The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract 0 0 1 27 1 2 5 138
The costs of conflict 0 0 0 38 2 2 5 145
The golden age of mercenaries 0 0 3 8 0 0 9 30
The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano 0 0 0 12 0 0 5 83
The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 90
Think tanks 0 0 0 37 1 1 7 171
Trading with Bandits 0 0 1 31 1 1 9 187
Trading with the Dead 0 0 1 7 1 1 6 24
Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development 0 0 0 42 2 2 4 210
Vermin Trials 1 3 5 20 1 5 12 150
Was Mises right? 0 0 0 54 0 1 2 207
Was privateering plunder efficient? 0 0 1 45 3 5 7 814
Wealth-destroying private property rights 1 2 3 31 2 3 7 196
Weathering Corruption 0 0 1 67 0 1 8 254
What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 45
What Can Aid Do? 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 80
Wife Sales 0 0 1 7 1 2 7 66
Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51
Witch Trials 1 1 14 71 1 8 60 397
Total Journal Articles 5 18 142 4,203 69 149 746 21,288
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 29
Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 22
Media, Development, and Institutional Change 0 0 1 15 0 1 3 62
Total Books 0 0 1 15 2 4 20 113


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Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create? 1 2 7 54 1 3 14 124
By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economicskornai's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences 0 0 1 22 0 0 1 56
Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics 0 0 0 12 0 0 4 54
Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 0 0 1 5 0 1 4 19
Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement? 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 44
Hayek versus the neoclassicists: lessons from the socialist calculation debate 0 0 2 24 1 2 5 93
Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics 1 1 7 29 6 17 37 228
It Began with Richard Nixon 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
Land Grab 0 0 1 1 0 3 6 8
Superstition and Self-Governance 0 0 0 12 0 0 5 64
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 1 4 6 62
The continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek's political economy 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 6
Total Chapters 2 3 19 176 11 32 93 764
3 registered items for which data could not be found


Statistics updated 2025-08-05