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Inheritance, Equal Division and Rent Seeking 0 0 0 114 0 1 11 483
Total Working Papers 0 0 0 114 0 1 11 483


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1966 0 0 0 11 0 0 11 82
A Defense of the CEA as an Instrument for Giving Economic Policy Advice: Comment 0 0 0 7 0 0 12 69
A Note on the Theory of Black Markets under Price Controls 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 126
A Proposal for Marginal Cost Financing of Higher Education 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 69
A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 228
A Snipe Hunt 0 0 0 48 0 2 12 263
A Theory of Legislative Organization: Making the Most of Your Majority 0 0 0 2 0 1 11 137
A Theory of Truth in Autobiography 0 1 1 8 1 2 7 36
A comment on economic analysis and just compensation 0 0 0 20 0 0 6 79
A further partial changing of the guard 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 60
A public choice theory of the great contraction 0 0 1 4 0 4 19 92
A theory of commodity bundling in final product markets: Professor Hirshleifer meets Professor Becker 0 0 0 43 0 0 11 183
A theory of rational childhood 0 0 0 29 1 2 8 98
Adam Smith in the Customhouse 0 0 1 62 1 1 14 216
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure 0 0 0 30 0 0 10 123
Adam Smith's Analysis of Joint-Stock Companies 0 0 1 285 1 2 17 1,832
Advertising and Profitability 0 0 0 184 0 0 13 646
Affirmative action and unemployment 0 0 0 69 0 4 12 422
Age and productivity: An empirical study of early American artists 0 0 0 11 0 2 27 90
Alphabetized coauthorship 0 0 1 54 0 2 17 245
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation 0 0 1 1,067 1 3 34 5,111
An Economic Model of Performance Contracting in Education 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 43
An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 1,170
An economic theory of mutually advantageous issue linkages in international negotiations 0 0 5 60 1 2 18 209
Antitrust Pork Barrel 0 0 2 27 1 1 17 340
Antitrust in the Reagan administration: A report from the Belly of the beast 0 0 0 19 0 1 9 123
Apologiae for Chartered Monopolies in Foreign Trade, 1600–1800 0 0 0 13 0 0 11 53
Arbtrage in a Basketball Economy 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 25
Are Art Auction Estimates Biased? 0 0 2 24 1 3 26 114
Are auction revenues affected by rising art buyers' premia? The case of early American art 0 0 0 7 0 0 12 55
Attenuated Property Rights and the Market for Governors 0 0 0 11 0 1 13 254
Barristers and Barriers: Sir Edward Coke and the Regulation of Trade 0 0 0 5 0 1 7 36
Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 565
Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking 0 0 0 34 1 2 10 108
Book Review: Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory 0 0 0 8 0 1 8 53
Book Review: Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who’s Paying For It 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 7
Book Review: The (peculiar) economics of NCAA basketball 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 10
Book reviews 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 26
Campaign Expenditures and Political Competition 0 0 0 5 0 2 15 145
Cathedral Building as an Entry‐Deterring Device 0 1 1 89 0 7 15 420
Celestial marriage and earthly rents: Interests and the prohibition of polygamy 0 0 0 75 0 1 9 270
Chaining Leviathan: the Case of Gladstonian Finance 0 0 0 12 0 0 16 54
Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam 0 0 0 4 0 0 14 42
Chicago Political Economy 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 35
Chivalry in golf? 0 0 0 18 0 1 10 91
Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending, 1933-1939 0 0 0 36 0 0 11 539
Consumer Choice and the Popular Music Industry: A Test of the Superstar Theory 0 0 0 199 0 2 9 478
Contractual exchange and the timing of payment 0 0 0 28 0 1 11 245
Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 157
Crime and income distribution in a basketball economy 0 0 0 34 1 3 9 161
Crime on the Court 0 0 0 208 0 1 13 729
Crime on the Court, Another Look: Reply to Hutchinson and Yates 0 0 0 47 1 3 15 235
Crime or punishment?: Enforcement of the NCAA football cartel 0 0 0 136 0 0 18 414
Democracy, Interest Groups, and the Price of Votes 0 0 0 7 0 0 10 50
Dry Holes in Economic Research 0 0 0 81 1 2 15 383
Dry Holes in Economic Research: Reply 0 0 0 37 0 0 3 148
Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 241
Economic Regulation, Competitive Governments, and Specialized Resources 0 0 0 5 0 0 8 217
Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective 0 0 1 5 1 2 17 29
Economics and metrology: Give 'em an inch and they'll take a kilometre 0 0 0 39 0 0 8 117
Economics and the architecture of popular music 0 2 2 170 0 2 14 403
Economist and the environment 0 0 0 8 0 2 10 84
Economists and the Economy 0 0 0 30 0 0 9 180
Editorial 0 0 0 16 0 0 9 74
Educational achievement and the cost of bureaucracy 0 0 0 80 0 0 11 299
Efficacy of shaming penalties: Evidence from SEC football 0 0 1 37 0 0 12 248
Efficient Lobbying and Earmarked Taxes 0 0 1 6 0 0 21 53
Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 6 0 0 14 62
Electoral Politics and the Executive Veto: A Predictive Theory 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 363
Elinor Ostrom and the commons 0 0 0 33 1 1 8 95
Explaining U.S. Federal Deficits: 1889--1998 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 497
Fed Behavior in Periods of Price and Wage Controls 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 80
Final Voting in Legislatures 0 0 0 31 0 1 20 143
Fiscal Federalism: a Voting System Where Spillovers Taper Off Spatially 0 0 0 1 0 2 17 34
Fiscal preference and balanced budget fiscal policy 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 18
Free Riding, Shirking, and Team Production in Legal Partnerships 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 639
Going for the Gold: Property Rights and Athletic Effort in Transitional Economies 0 0 0 6 2 2 11 25
Good colleagues 0 0 0 52 0 0 10 286
Gordon Tullock's Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 470
Gordon Tullock: Creative Maverick of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 118
Government output and national income estimates: A comment 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 75
Graphs in Economics 0 0 2 158 0 0 19 1,078
Import Controls on Foreign Oil: Comment 0 0 0 15 0 1 10 197
In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015) 0 0 0 4 0 0 9 56
Incentive versus Cost-Plus Contracts in Defense Procurement 0 0 0 172 0 2 8 646
Information and voting: An empirical note 0 0 0 4 0 0 10 32
Innovation and the opportunity cost of monopoly 0 0 0 94 0 0 15 507
Intellectual Collaboration 1 1 4 203 2 3 27 648
J. S. Mill's New Political Economy: Another View 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 173
James M. Buchanan: In Memoriam 0 0 0 20 1 1 4 55
Legislation and Political Business Cycles 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 88
Legislators as Taxicabs: On the Value of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 139
Legislatures as Unions 0 0 0 20 0 0 8 97
Life in the Gulag: A Property Rights Perspective 0 0 0 8 0 0 11 67
Macroeconomic Determinants of the Vote in Presidential Elections 0 0 0 4 0 2 7 35
Managerial Rents and Outside Recruitment in the Coasian Firm 0 0 0 36 0 1 7 189
Marginal Deterrence and Multiple Murders 0 0 0 3 0 1 21 37
Market Failure, the Common-Pool Problem, and Ocean Resource Exploitation 0 0 0 16 1 2 10 722
Mercantilist Origins of the Corporation 1 1 1 206 1 1 12 853
Methodenstreit: The economics of competing interests 0 0 2 111 1 1 11 317
Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule Revisited 0 0 0 0 1 2 14 889
Morality and Monopoly: The Constitutional Political Economy of Religious Rules 0 0 1 58 0 1 11 187
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting rules: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 18 0 0 6 86
ON THE SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR WEALTH‐MAXIMIZING CONDUCT 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 92
Old wine, new wine 0 0 0 55 1 1 9 170
On Equalizing the Distribution of Political Income 0 0 0 24 0 0 8 148
On good government 0 0 0 32 0 1 7 98
On neoinstitutional theory and preclassical economies: mercantilism revisited 0 0 3 29 0 1 22 107
On the Incentives of Judges to Enforce Legislative Wealth Transfers 0 0 1 18 1 1 13 259
On the Third Law of Demand 0 0 0 89 2 2 9 1,031
Peacock and Wiseman on the Growth of Public Expenditure: Editor's Note 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 747
Political Entry Barriers and Tax Incidence: The Political Economy of Sales and Excise Taxes 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 110
Political influence and the ratification of the income tax amendment 0 0 0 17 0 0 7 112
Power, Politics, and Prosperity: Alternative Views of Economic Interdependence 1 1 1 2 1 2 13 16
Preaching matters 0 0 0 199 1 2 16 478
Preliminary Evidence on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 111
Price leadership with incomplete information 0 0 0 18 0 0 5 65
Public Choice and Antitrust 0 0 0 9 0 2 12 56
Public choice in the new century 0 0 0 104 0 0 9 231
Quality Control in Economics 0 0 0 5 1 1 10 28
RATES OF PUBLICATION PER FACULTY MEMBER IN FORTY‐FIVE “RATED” ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS* 0 0 0 1 0 1 11 13
RENT SEEKING: A SURVEY 1 4 27 235 2 7 55 2,417
Racial Integration as an Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues 0 0 2 186 0 0 21 1,161
Racial Integration of Coaching 0 0 0 12 0 0 9 65
Rates of Publication per Faculty Member in Forty-Five "Rated" Economics Departments 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 150
Rational Self-Taxation: Complementary Inputs and Excise Taxation 0 0 0 6 0 0 5 240
Rational choice and the taxation of sin 0 0 0 43 0 1 12 125
Rational choice and the taxation of sin: Reply 0 0 0 23 0 0 8 70
Regulators and Redskins 0 0 0 9 0 1 13 68
Regulatory finance in alternative models of regulation: General fund financing versus earmarked taxation 0 0 0 36 0 1 13 176
Religious participation and income 0 0 0 169 0 2 14 529
Remembering Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 44
Rent Seeking and the Restriction of Human Exchange 0 0 0 10 0 0 11 188
Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution 0 0 0 118 0 0 7 303
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 27
Reviews 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 36
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 26
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 35
Reviews 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 33
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 30
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 18
Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform 0 0 0 42 0 1 11 358
Self-Interest, Public Interest, and Public Health 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 192
Spatial aspects of ticket scalping 0 0 0 27 0 0 8 117
State budget sizes and the marginal productivity of governors 0 0 0 2 0 0 9 20
Superdissipation 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 26
Technology, Profit Risk, and Assessments of Market Performance 0 0 0 15 0 1 12 100
Terrorism and pork-barrel spending 0 0 1 40 0 0 11 313
The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 122
The Coase Theorem and Quasi-Rents: Correcting the Record 0 0 1 3 0 0 11 37
The Designated Hitter Rule and the Distribution of Pitching Talent Across Leagues 0 0 0 37 1 4 12 112
The Disinterest in Deregulation 1 1 1 54 1 3 13 210
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 141
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 16 0 1 10 165
The Economic Determinants of Antitrust Activity 0 0 1 11 1 2 13 225
The Economic Theory of Clubs: A Geometric Exposition 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 192
The Economics of the Counter-Reformation: Incumbent-Firm Reaction to Market Entry 0 1 1 143 0 2 27 1,043
The Exercise of Market Power in Laboratory Experiments: Comment 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 79
The Half-Life of Dead Economists 0 0 0 19 0 2 14 257
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs 0 0 0 29 1 3 10 306
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs: Reply 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 177
The Interest‐Group Theory of Government: Problems and Prospects 0 0 0 3 0 1 8 20
The Length of Legislative Sessions and the Growth of Government 0 0 0 2 0 2 8 16
The Logic of Natural Monopoly Regulation 0 0 1 198 0 2 13 784
The Market Provision of Addiction Control Services 0 0 0 0 0 1 15 30
The Monopsony Power of the Median Voter 0 0 0 4 0 0 6 38
The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill: The Means to Social Justice 0 0 0 16 0 0 11 429
The Next Twenty-Five Years of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 88
The Pope and the Price of Meat: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 10 0 0 9 335
The Price of Influence in an Interest-Group Economy 0 0 0 1 1 3 12 23
The Probability of Being President 0 0 0 60 0 2 46 742
The Random Character of Merger Activity 0 0 0 145 0 1 11 727
The Shadow Price of Sunshine: Reply 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 44
The Supply of Occupational Regulation 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 67
The Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System: Reply 0 0 0 3 0 1 13 84
The War on Drugs as Antitrust Regulation 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 78
The convergence of satisficing to marginalism: An empirical test 0 0 0 6 0 0 7 64
The economic organization of the English East India Company 0 0 2 167 0 0 11 455
The economic theory of rent seeking 0 0 1 220 0 2 16 575
The economics of sin and redemption: Purgatory as a market-pull innovation? 0 0 0 324 2 3 16 869
The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state 0 0 0 153 1 2 11 324
The positive economics of antitrust policy: A survey article 0 0 0 79 0 1 9 222
The rookie draft and competitive balance: The case of professional football 0 1 5 262 1 5 25 583
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 0 16 0 0 5 99
The unfinished business of public choice 0 0 0 47 0 0 7 149
The welfare costs of monopoly are larger than you think 0 0 0 74 0 0 3 203
Time inconsistency and fiscal policy: Empirical analysis of U.S. States, 1969-89 0 0 0 228 0 2 10 509
Toenote to a Footnote 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 155
Tradeable Shares and the Supply-Side of Corporate Development: Reply 0 0 0 8 0 1 10 240
Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports, by A. Zimbalist, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, xii+252 pp., $24.95 (cloth) 0 0 0 0 2 2 11 166
Using (im)perfect markets to catch criminals 0 0 0 11 0 0 11 74
Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams? A Comment 1 1 1 10 2 4 12 72
Why do black basketball players work more for less money? 0 0 0 125 0 1 10 853
“Rubbin’ is racin''': evidence of the Peltzman effect from NASCAR 0 0 1 59 0 0 9 241
Total Journal Articles 6 15 81 9,004 53 201 2,257 53,105
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Economic Origins of Roman Christianity 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 127
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm 0 0 0 0 0 5 27 1,386
The Marketplace of Christianity 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 300
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 6 46 1,813


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Buchanan and Tullock on law and economics 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 12
Clubs and club goods 0 0 0 26 0 0 8 110
Free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10
James M. Buchanan (1919- ) 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 18
Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society 0 0 0 1 1 3 26 45
Public choice and religion 0 0 0 14 0 1 12 54
TITAN AGONISTES: THE WEALTH EFFECTS OF THE STANDARD OIL (N. J.) CASE 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 16
The Perspective of Economics 0 0 0 1 0 0 17 86
The interest-group theory of government 0 0 3 77 0 0 14 400
Total Chapters 0 0 3 120 1 5 113 751


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