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Billionaires 0 0 0 77 2 2 15 218
Billionaires 0 0 0 49 0 2 11 114
Magic, explanations, and evil: the origins and design of witches and sorcerers 0 0 0 3 1 10 27 132
Quasimarket failure 0 0 1 50 0 6 13 142
Total Working Papers 0 0 1 179 3 20 66 606
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"God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction 0 0 0 4 3 5 17 72
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 8 12
A normal market 0 0 0 2 2 3 18 28
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 1 1 4 154
An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition 0 0 0 39 3 7 16 168
An economic analysis of Magna Carta 0 1 1 19 4 7 14 116
An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization 3 5 23 399 10 20 84 2,351
Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best 0 1 9 82 5 11 35 462
Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation 0 0 0 38 2 8 16 227
Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective 1 1 8 25 12 37 103 276
Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity 0 0 0 13 0 0 10 110
Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse 0 1 6 129 16 29 65 737
Billionaires 0 0 2 18 5 5 19 129
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, $35.00 0 0 1 96 4 6 12 361
Celestial Anarchy: A Threat to Outer Space Commerce? 0 0 0 23 0 6 13 161
Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 47
Child brides 0 0 0 26 1 3 12 150
Comparative historical political economy 0 0 2 61 3 4 21 192
Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy 0 0 0 24 5 5 15 132
Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation 0 0 1 34 3 4 9 153
Cooperation and Conflict 0 0 0 16 1 2 10 146
Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order 0 0 0 36 4 4 10 129
Costly price discrimination 0 0 0 33 5 7 15 177
Criminal constitutions 2 11 13 30 2 32 46 105
Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence 0 0 0 37 3 5 8 128
Do we need behavioral economics to explain law? 0 0 0 30 2 3 8 134
Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error 0 1 1 21 1 3 8 223
Earw(h)ig: I can’t hear you because your ideas are old 0 0 0 8 3 3 18 80
Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution 0 0 0 14 9 15 31 128
Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) 0 0 2 34 3 9 35 117
Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice 0 0 0 47 3 3 5 187
Efficient anarchy 0 0 1 45 2 5 19 254
Endogenizing fractionalization 0 0 1 46 1 3 11 162
Externality and COVID‐19 0 1 1 6 1 7 16 54
Externality and taboo: Resolving the Judaic pig puzzle 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 6
Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman, Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004) 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0 0 0 0 263 3 7 11 1,003
Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development 0 0 0 15 3 4 11 151
Government intervention and the structure of social capital 0 0 0 58 1 1 5 168
Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis 0 1 6 172 4 10 33 840
Government, clubs, and constitutions 0 0 1 27 0 1 9 128
Gypsy law 0 0 0 8 2 5 11 103
Hate groups and hate crime 0 0 3 73 4 7 14 267
Hobo Economicus 0 1 1 10 0 3 8 47
Hooligans 0 1 1 32 2 4 14 162
How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 8
How Important is State Enforcement for Trade&quest 0 0 0 13 2 6 9 83
Human Sacrifice 0 0 0 28 3 6 19 212
IS THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET TOO IMPORTANT TO BE LEFT TO THE MARKET? 0 0 1 30 0 1 7 182
Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics 0 0 2 157 3 14 51 664
Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle 0 1 1 19 1 7 18 97
Kornai goes to Kenya 0 0 0 1 4 4 8 24
Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists 0 1 1 14 2 4 13 76
Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation 1 1 1 33 4 6 13 438
Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement 0 0 1 34 5 7 28 221
Oracles 0 0 0 10 3 4 13 75
Ordeals 1 1 1 24 2 8 25 181
Organizing Crime 0 1 4 8 4 10 25 61
Pirates 0 0 1 20 1 1 5 92
Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law 0 0 1 23 2 4 17 124
Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices 0 1 1 71 3 8 18 371
Predatory private governance 0 0 1 1 3 11 23 23
Prenups 0 0 2 13 11 21 44 114
Public choice and public health 1 1 4 12 5 7 24 68
Quasimarket failure 0 0 0 10 0 2 11 79
Race, politics, and punishment 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 21
Racial Fractionalization and School Performance 0 0 0 11 3 3 13 129
Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution 0 0 0 17 2 2 9 179
Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development 1 1 5 645 4 9 38 2,502
Regulating quack medicine 0 0 0 11 1 2 12 95
Robust political economy 0 0 0 19 3 3 15 158
Sassywood 0 0 0 16 0 3 18 148
Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective 0 0 0 64 0 2 11 329
Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States 0 0 0 9 4 4 7 69
Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy 0 0 0 24 0 1 2 103
Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange 0 0 0 18 1 1 12 145
Testing rational choice theories of institutional change 0 0 0 8 4 5 11 41
The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions 0 0 1 67 0 1 3 241
The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 3 9 4 12 34 88
The Laws of Lawlessness 0 0 1 39 0 0 16 225
The Many Faces of the Market 0 0 0 12 2 2 8 87
The New Comparative Political Economy 0 0 0 89 3 6 9 312
The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries 2 2 3 47 13 15 18 247
The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina 0 0 2 4 0 1 7 16
The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance 0 0 0 2 2 2 8 21
The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker 0 0 1 7 0 1 9 46
The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract 0 0 1 28 3 6 22 158
The costs of conflict 0 0 0 38 1 6 14 157
The golden age of mercenaries 0 0 1 9 2 3 16 46
The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano 0 0 0 12 2 3 6 89
The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform 0 0 0 16 1 4 9 99
Think tanks 0 0 1 38 5 7 15 185
Trading with Bandits 0 0 0 31 2 7 19 205
Trading with the Dead 0 0 0 7 0 2 10 33
Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development 0 0 0 42 0 3 9 217
Vermin Trials 0 2 10 27 2 8 21 166
Was Mises right? 2 2 2 56 7 11 21 227
Was privateering plunder efficient? 0 0 1 46 1 3 17 826
Wealth-destroying private property rights 0 0 2 31 5 5 18 211
Weathering Corruption 1 1 2 69 3 4 17 270
What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis 0 0 0 5 1 3 7 52
What Can Aid Do? 0 0 0 17 2 3 5 85
Wife Sales 0 0 0 7 4 6 17 81
Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 58
Witch Trials 1 2 11 81 14 40 96 485
Total Journal Articles 16 42 153 4,338 300 648 1,843 22,982
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Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 36
Anarchy Unbound 0 0 0 0 2 5 12 32
Media, Development, and Institutional Change 0 0 1 16 1 1 9 70
Total Books 0 0 1 16 5 10 29 138


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create? 1 1 3 55 3 10 24 145
By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economicskornai's 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 7
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences 0 0 0 22 1 7 12 68
Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics 0 0 1 13 0 2 7 61
Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government 0 0 1 6 3 3 11 29
Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement? 0 0 1 13 1 1 9 52
Hayek versus the neoclassicists: lessons from the socialist calculation debate 0 1 2 26 3 6 17 108
Institutional stickiness and the New Development Economics 1 3 7 35 6 22 66 277
It Began with Richard Nixon 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 10
Land Grab 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 14
Superstition and Self-Governance 0 0 0 12 3 5 8 72
The Use of Knowledge in Natural Disaster Relief Management 0 0 0 5 3 3 10 68
The continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek's political economy 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 12
Total Chapters 2 5 15 188 29 69 191 923
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Statistics updated 2026-05-06