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Inheritance, Equal Division and Rent Seeking 0 0 0 114 4 4 9 481
Total Working Papers 0 0 0 114 4 4 9 481


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1966 0 0 0 11 2 6 11 82
A Defense of the CEA as an Instrument for Giving Economic Policy Advice: Comment 0 0 0 7 3 8 13 69
A Note on the Theory of Black Markets under Price Controls 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 126
A Proposal for Marginal Cost Financing of Higher Education 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 69
A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence 0 0 0 0 3 7 14 225
A Snipe Hunt 0 0 0 48 3 5 9 260
A Theory of Legislative Organization: Making the Most of Your Majority 0 0 0 2 2 3 11 136
A Theory of Truth in Autobiography 0 0 1 7 0 0 7 32
A comment on economic analysis and just compensation 0 0 0 20 1 3 5 78
A further partial changing of the guard 0 0 0 7 3 3 7 60
A public choice theory of the great contraction 0 1 1 4 1 4 16 85
A theory of commodity bundling in final product markets: Professor Hirshleifer meets Professor Becker 0 0 0 43 2 6 11 183
A theory of rational childhood 0 0 1 29 0 0 8 96
Adam Smith in the Customhouse 0 0 0 61 4 5 16 214
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure 0 0 0 30 3 5 8 121
Adam Smith's Analysis of Joint-Stock Companies 0 0 3 285 2 6 18 1,828
Advertising and Profitability 0 0 1 184 3 8 15 646
Affirmative action and unemployment 0 0 0 69 2 3 6 416
Age and productivity: An empirical study of early American artists 0 0 1 11 7 14 28 87
Alphabetized coauthorship 0 0 1 54 2 4 16 242
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation 0 0 4 1,067 2 10 32 5,102
An Economic Model of Performance Contracting in Education 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 42
An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking 0 0 0 0 0 3 16 1,170
An economic theory of mutually advantageous issue linkages in international negotiations 1 1 6 59 6 8 17 205
Antitrust Pork Barrel 0 2 3 27 4 10 17 339
Antitrust in the Reagan administration: A report from the Belly of the beast 0 0 0 19 2 5 11 122
Apologiae for Chartered Monopolies in Foreign Trade, 1600–1800 0 0 0 13 3 5 11 52
Arbtrage in a Basketball Economy 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 25
Are Art Auction Estimates Biased? 0 1 1 23 5 8 20 107
Are auction revenues affected by rising art buyers' premia? The case of early American art 0 0 0 7 1 2 10 53
Attenuated Property Rights and the Market for Governors 0 0 0 11 2 4 14 253
Barristers and Barriers: Sir Edward Coke and the Regulation of Trade 0 0 0 5 2 6 6 35
Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen 0 0 0 0 2 6 6 564
Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking 0 0 1 34 2 4 9 106
Book Review: Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory 0 0 0 8 1 6 7 52
Book Review: Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who’s Paying For It 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 6
Book Review: The (peculiar) economics of NCAA basketball 0 0 0 1 0 2 8 10
Book reviews 0 0 0 1 4 6 13 26
Campaign Expenditures and Political Competition 0 0 0 5 4 5 14 143
Cathedral Building as an Entry‐Deterring Device 0 0 0 88 1 5 6 411
Celestial marriage and earthly rents: Interests and the prohibition of polygamy 0 0 0 75 2 3 9 268
Chaining Leviathan: the Case of Gladstonian Finance 0 0 0 12 5 9 16 53
Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam 0 0 0 4 2 7 13 41
Chicago Political Economy 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 34
Chivalry in golf? 0 0 0 18 2 4 10 89
Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending, 1933-1939 0 0 0 36 1 1 10 538
Consumer Choice and the Popular Music Industry: A Test of the Superstar Theory 0 0 2 199 1 3 12 476
Contractual exchange and the timing of payment 0 0 0 28 1 1 11 244
Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 156
Crime and income distribution in a basketball economy 0 0 0 34 2 2 6 158
Crime on the Court 0 0 0 208 0 4 14 728
Crime on the Court, Another Look: Reply to Hutchinson and Yates 0 0 0 47 0 3 13 231
Crime or punishment?: Enforcement of the NCAA football cartel 0 0 0 136 9 13 18 412
Democracy, Interest Groups, and the Price of Votes 0 0 1 7 2 4 11 50
Dry Holes in Economic Research 0 0 0 81 3 6 13 381
Dry Holes in Economic Research: Reply 0 0 0 37 1 1 3 147
Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 240
Economic Regulation, Competitive Governments, and Specialized Resources 0 0 0 5 3 5 8 217
Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective 0 0 1 5 0 3 16 26
Economics and metrology: Give 'em an inch and they'll take a kilometre 0 0 0 39 1 3 8 117
Economics and the architecture of popular music 0 0 0 168 2 5 14 401
Economist and the environment 0 0 0 8 1 4 8 82
Economists and the Economy 0 0 0 30 1 2 9 179
Editorial 0 0 0 16 2 5 9 74
Educational achievement and the cost of bureaucracy 0 0 0 80 3 6 11 299
Efficacy of shaming penalties: Evidence from SEC football 0 0 1 37 2 8 13 248
Efficient Lobbying and Earmarked Taxes 0 1 1 6 1 3 21 53
Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 6 4 6 14 61
Electoral Politics and the Executive Veto: A Predictive Theory 0 0 0 0 0 11 20 361
Elinor Ostrom and the commons 0 0 0 33 0 3 8 93
Explaining U.S. Federal Deficits: 1889--1998 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 495
Fed Behavior in Periods of Price and Wage Controls 0 0 0 0 3 7 9 78
Final Voting in Legislatures 0 0 0 31 2 6 21 142
Fiscal Federalism: a Voting System Where Spillovers Taper Off Spatially 0 0 0 1 0 10 13 30
Fiscal preference and balanced budget fiscal policy 0 0 0 1 1 1 7 18
Free Riding, Shirking, and Team Production in Legal Partnerships 0 0 0 0 2 5 14 637
Going for the Gold: Property Rights and Athletic Effort in Transitional Economies 0 0 0 6 2 2 9 22
Good colleagues 0 0 0 52 1 4 10 285
Gordon Tullock's Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 468
Gordon Tullock: Creative Maverick of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 4 6 11 117
Government output and national income estimates: A comment 0 0 0 7 1 1 4 75
Graphs in Economics 0 1 7 158 1 7 35 1,078
Import Controls on Foreign Oil: Comment 0 0 0 15 1 5 10 196
In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015) 0 0 0 4 0 3 11 56
Incentive versus Cost-Plus Contracts in Defense Procurement 0 0 1 172 2 3 8 644
Information and voting: An empirical note 0 0 0 4 2 4 8 30
Innovation and the opportunity cost of monopoly 0 0 1 94 1 4 16 506
Intellectual Collaboration 0 0 4 201 2 7 24 639
J. S. Mill's New Political Economy: Another View 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 172
James M. Buchanan: In Memoriam 0 0 1 20 0 3 4 54
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 2 5 16 139
Legislatures as Unions 0 0 1 20 4 5 9 97
Life in the Gulag: A Property Rights Perspective 0 0 1 8 4 5 14 67
Macroeconomic Determinants of the Vote in Presidential Elections 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 33
Managerial Rents and Outside Recruitment in the Coasian Firm 0 0 0 36 0 2 10 188
Marginal Deterrence and Multiple Murders 0 0 0 3 6 7 19 34
Market Failure, the Common-Pool Problem, and Ocean Resource Exploitation 0 0 1 16 0 2 8 718
Mercantilist Origins of the Corporation 0 0 1 205 0 4 11 851
Methodenstreit: The economics of competing interests 0 1 2 111 1 6 10 316
Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule Revisited 0 0 0 0 4 5 13 886
Morality and Monopoly: The Constitutional Political Economy of Religious Rules 0 0 3 58 1 2 12 185
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting rules: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 18 2 2 5 85
ON THE SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR WEALTH‐MAXIMIZING CONDUCT 0 0 0 0 2 6 9 91
Old wine, new wine 0 0 0 55 2 3 7 168
On Equalizing the Distribution of Political Income 0 0 0 24 0 1 7 147
On good government 0 0 0 32 2 2 6 97
On neoinstitutional theory and preclassical economies: mercantilism revisited 0 1 5 29 2 5 24 104
On the Incentives of Judges to Enforce Legislative Wealth Transfers 0 0 1 18 2 6 13 258
On the Third Law of Demand 0 0 0 89 1 5 6 1,028
Peacock and Wiseman on the Growth of Public Expenditure: Editor's Note 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 745
Political Entry Barriers and Tax Incidence: The Political Economy of Sales and Excise Taxes 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 109
Political influence and the ratification of the income tax amendment 0 0 0 17 2 3 6 111
Power, Politics, and Prosperity: Alternative Views of Economic Interdependence 0 0 0 1 2 7 11 14
Preaching matters 0 0 1 199 2 4 17 475
Preliminary Evidence on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 110
Price leadership with incomplete information 0 0 0 18 2 3 6 65
Public Choice and Antitrust 0 0 0 9 1 5 11 54
Public choice in the new century 0 0 0 104 2 5 10 231
Quality Control in Economics 0 0 0 5 2 2 10 27
RATES OF PUBLICATION PER FACULTY MEMBER IN FORTY‐FIVE “RATED” ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS* 0 0 0 1 2 6 10 12
RENT SEEKING: A SURVEY 2 4 26 227 3 11 50 2,400
Racial Integration as an Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues 1 1 2 186 4 8 20 1,160
Racial Integration of Coaching 0 0 0 12 1 3 7 63
Rates of Publication per Faculty Member in Forty-Five "Rated" Economics Departments 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 148
Rational Self-Taxation: Complementary Inputs and Excise Taxation 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 238
Rational choice and the taxation of sin 0 0 0 43 0 4 13 124
Rational choice and the taxation of sin: Reply 0 0 0 23 0 0 5 67
Regulators and Redskins 0 0 0 9 4 5 12 67
Regulatory finance in alternative models of regulation: General fund financing versus earmarked taxation 0 0 0 36 1 4 10 173
Religious participation and income 0 0 0 169 0 5 14 527
Remembering Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 44
Rent Seeking and the Restriction of Human Exchange 0 0 0 10 5 6 12 188
Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution 0 0 0 118 1 1 8 303
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 18
Reviews 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 32
Reviews 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 34
Reviews 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 36
Reviews 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 26
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 26
Reviews 0 0 0 0 6 7 16 29
Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform 0 0 3 42 1 6 14 357
Self-Interest, Public Interest, and Public Health 0 0 0 0 4 5 13 190
Spatial aspects of ticket scalping 0 0 0 27 3 4 7 116
State budget sizes and the marginal productivity of governors 0 0 0 2 1 2 9 20
Superdissipation 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 25
Technology, Profit Risk, and Assessments of Market Performance 0 0 0 15 2 10 11 99
Terrorism and pork-barrel spending 0 1 1 40 2 4 12 313
The All-Volunteer Army: An Analysis of Demand and Supply. By K. H. Kim, Susan Farrell, and Ewan Clague. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Pp. 230. $12.50.) - The Case Against a Volunteer Army. By Harry A. Marmion. (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. Pp. 107. $1.95, paper.) 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 13
The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 118
The Coase Theorem and Quasi-Rents: Correcting the Record 0 0 0 2 2 4 9 35
The Designated Hitter Rule and the Distribution of Pitching Talent Across Leagues 0 0 0 37 2 2 9 108
The Disinterest in Deregulation 0 0 0 53 1 3 12 206
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 16 3 4 9 163
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 139
The Economic Determinants of Antitrust Activity 0 1 1 11 2 7 12 223
The Economic Theory of Clubs: A Geometric Exposition 0 0 0 0 3 5 14 189
The Economics of the Counter-Reformation: Incumbent-Firm Reaction to Market Entry 0 0 0 142 2 14 26 1,041
The Exercise of Market Power in Laboratory Experiments: Comment 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 79
The Half-Life of Dead Economists 0 0 0 19 2 3 13 255
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs 0 0 0 29 2 3 10 303
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs: Reply 0 0 0 3 3 3 9 175
The Interest‐Group Theory of Government: Problems and Prospects 0 0 1 3 1 1 8 19
The Length of Legislative Sessions and the Growth of Government 0 0 1 2 1 3 7 14
The Logic of Natural Monopoly Regulation 0 0 1 198 2 2 11 782
The Market Provision of Addiction Control Services 0 0 0 0 6 6 14 29
The Monopsony Power of the Median Voter 0 0 0 4 1 2 7 38
The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill: The Means to Social Justice 0 0 0 16 4 5 13 428
The Next Twenty-Five Years of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 87
The Pope and the Price of Meat: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 10 1 6 10 335
The Price of Influence in an Interest-Group Economy 0 0 0 1 1 5 11 20
The Probability of Being President 0 0 0 60 5 14 42 732
The Random Character of Merger Activity 0 0 0 145 1 1 8 724
The Shadow Price of Sunshine: Reply 0 0 0 0 0 4 11 44
The Supply of Occupational Regulation 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 67
The Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System: Reply 0 0 0 3 0 3 12 81
The War on Drugs as Antitrust Regulation 0 0 0 17 2 4 8 77
The convergence of satisficing to marginalism: An empirical test 0 0 0 6 2 3 8 64
The economic organization of the English East India Company 0 1 1 166 2 4 12 454
The economic theory of rent seeking 0 0 1 219 3 5 18 570
The economics of sin and redemption: Purgatory as a market-pull innovation? 0 0 0 324 2 6 14 866
The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state 0 0 1 153 2 2 11 322
The positive economics of antitrust policy: A survey article 0 0 0 79 1 2 8 220
The rookie draft and competitive balance: The case of professional football 0 1 1 258 1 5 17 571
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 0 16 0 0 6 98
The unfinished business of public choice 0 0 1 47 0 3 9 149
The welfare costs of monopoly are larger than you think 0 0 0 74 1 2 5 203
Time inconsistency and fiscal policy: Empirical analysis of U.S. States, 1969-89 0 0 0 228 2 3 7 506
Toenote to a Footnote 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 155
Tradeable Shares and the Supply-Side of Corporate Development: Reply 0 0 0 8 2 2 9 239
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 3 5 9 164
Using (im)perfect markets to catch criminals 0 0 0 11 2 4 10 73
Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams? A Comment 0 0 0 9 1 4 8 67
Why do black basketball players work more for less money? 0 0 0 125 1 3 8 850
“Rubbin’ is racin''': evidence of the Peltzman effect from NASCAR 0 0 1 59 3 5 10 241
Total Journal Articles 4 18 102 8,975 357 821 2,169 52,769
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Economic Origins of Roman Christianity 0 0 0 0 3 6 13 127
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm 0 0 0 0 4 5 26 1,378
The Marketplace of Christianity 0 0 0 0 4 5 9 299
Total Books 0 0 0 0 11 16 48 1,804


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Buchanan and Tullock on law and economics 0 0 0 1 3 4 6 11
Clubs and club goods 0 0 0 26 3 3 10 110
Free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 10
James M. Buchanan (1919- ) 0 0 0 0 2 5 13 17
Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society 0 0 1 1 3 12 31 41
Public choice and religion 0 0 0 14 1 2 10 52
TITAN AGONISTES: THE WEALTH EFFECTS OF THE STANDARD OIL (N. J.) CASE 0 0 0 0 4 5 7 13
The Perspective of Economics 0 0 0 1 6 9 17 84
The interest-group theory of government 0 2 3 76 2 7 12 397
Total Chapters 0 2 4 119 25 50 113 735


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