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Inheritance, Equal Division and Rent Seeking 0 0 0 114 0 4 6 477
Total Working Papers 0 0 0 114 0 4 6 477


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1966 0 0 0 11 1 9 9 80
A Defense of the CEA as an Instrument for Giving Economic Policy Advice: Comment 0 0 0 7 0 8 10 66
A Note on the Theory of Black Markets under Price Controls 0 0 0 0 0 6 11 125
A Proposal for Marginal Cost Financing of Higher Education 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 68
A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence 0 0 0 0 0 8 11 222
A Snipe Hunt 0 0 0 48 1 5 6 257
A Theory of Legislative Organization: Making the Most of Your Majority 0 0 0 2 0 4 10 134
A Theory of Truth in Autobiography 0 0 2 7 0 1 8 32
A comment on economic analysis and just compensation 0 0 0 20 0 3 4 77
A further partial changing of the guard 0 0 0 7 0 3 4 57
A public choice theory of the great contraction 1 1 1 4 2 8 15 84
A theory of commodity bundling in final product markets: Professor Hirshleifer meets Professor Becker 0 0 0 43 1 9 9 181
A theory of rational childhood 0 0 1 29 0 3 8 96
Adam Smith in the Customhouse 0 0 0 61 0 4 13 210
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure 0 0 0 30 1 5 5 118
Adam Smith's Analysis of Joint-Stock Companies 0 0 5 285 3 8 18 1,826
Advertising and Profitability 0 0 1 184 1 8 12 643
Affirmative action and unemployment 0 0 0 69 0 3 4 414
Age and productivity: An empirical study of early American artists 0 0 1 11 4 14 21 80
Alphabetized coauthorship 0 1 1 54 1 8 14 240
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation 0 0 4 1,067 6 14 31 5,100
An Economic Model of Performance Contracting in Education 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 40
An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking 0 0 0 0 1 9 16 1,170
An economic theory of mutually advantageous issue linkages in international negotiations 0 0 6 58 1 4 12 199
Antitrust Pork Barrel 2 2 4 27 4 8 14 335
Antitrust in the Reagan administration: A report from the Belly of the beast 0 0 0 19 1 4 9 120
Apologiae for Chartered Monopolies in Foreign Trade, 1600–1800 0 0 0 13 0 7 8 49
Arbtrage in a Basketball Economy 0 0 0 1 0 5 5 25
Are Art Auction Estimates Biased? 1 1 2 23 3 7 18 102
Are auction revenues affected by rising art buyers' premia? The case of early American art 0 0 0 7 0 7 9 52
Attenuated Property Rights and the Market for Governors 0 0 0 11 1 5 12 251
Barristers and Barriers: Sir Edward Coke and the Regulation of Trade 0 0 0 5 1 4 4 33
Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 562
Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking 0 0 1 34 0 3 8 104
Book Review: Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory 0 0 0 8 2 6 6 51
Book Review: Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who’s Paying For It 0 0 0 1 3 3 5 6
Book Review: The (peculiar) economics of NCAA basketball 0 0 0 1 0 6 8 10
Book reviews 0 0 0 1 1 5 9 22
Campaign Expenditures and Political Competition 0 0 0 5 1 5 10 139
Cathedral Building as an Entry‐Deterring Device 0 0 0 88 1 5 5 410
Celestial marriage and earthly rents: Interests and the prohibition of polygamy 0 0 0 75 1 2 7 266
Chaining Leviathan: the Case of Gladstonian Finance 0 0 0 12 0 6 11 48
Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam 0 0 0 4 2 8 11 39
Chicago Political Economy 0 0 0 1 0 3 9 34
Chivalry in golf? 0 0 0 18 1 4 8 87
Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending, 1933-1939 0 0 0 36 0 5 10 537
Consumer Choice and the Popular Music Industry: A Test of the Superstar Theory 0 0 2 199 0 4 11 475
Contractual exchange and the timing of payment 0 0 0 28 0 4 10 243
Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 155
Crime and income distribution in a basketball economy 0 0 0 34 0 3 4 156
Crime on the Court 0 0 1 208 0 7 16 728
Crime on the Court, Another Look: Reply to Hutchinson and Yates 0 0 0 47 1 9 13 231
Crime or punishment?: Enforcement of the NCAA football cartel 0 0 0 136 1 5 9 403
Democracy, Interest Groups, and the Price of Votes 0 0 1 7 0 7 9 48
Dry Holes in Economic Research 0 0 0 81 0 6 10 378
Dry Holes in Economic Research: Reply 0 0 0 37 0 0 2 146
Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 239
Economic Regulation, Competitive Governments, and Specialized Resources 0 0 0 5 0 5 5 214
Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective 0 0 1 5 1 9 16 26
Economics and metrology: Give 'em an inch and they'll take a kilometre 0 0 0 39 1 2 7 116
Economics and the architecture of popular music 0 0 3 168 1 6 15 399
Economist and the environment 0 0 0 8 1 6 7 81
Economists and the Economy 0 0 0 30 0 2 8 178
Editorial 0 0 0 16 0 4 7 72
Educational achievement and the cost of bureaucracy 0 0 0 80 1 6 8 296
Efficacy of shaming penalties: Evidence from SEC football 0 0 1 37 4 9 11 246
Efficient Lobbying and Earmarked Taxes 0 1 1 6 0 9 20 52
Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 6 1 5 10 57
Electoral Politics and the Executive Veto: A Predictive Theory 0 0 0 0 1 15 20 361
Elinor Ostrom and the commons 0 0 0 33 2 5 8 93
Explaining U.S. Federal Deficits: 1889--1998 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 493
Fed Behavior in Periods of Price and Wage Controls 0 0 0 0 1 6 6 75
Final Voting in Legislatures 0 0 0 31 0 15 19 140
Fiscal Federalism: a Voting System Where Spillovers Taper Off Spatially 0 0 0 1 4 10 13 30
Fiscal preference and balanced budget fiscal policy 0 0 0 1 0 3 6 17
Free Riding, Shirking, and Team Production in Legal Partnerships 0 0 0 0 1 7 12 635
Going for the Gold: Property Rights and Athletic Effort in Transitional Economies 0 0 0 6 0 5 7 20
Good colleagues 0 0 0 52 2 6 9 284
Gordon Tullock's Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 468
Gordon Tullock: Creative Maverick of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 113
Government output and national income estimates: A comment 0 0 0 7 0 1 3 74
Graphs in Economics 1 1 8 158 4 13 39 1,077
Import Controls on Foreign Oil: Comment 0 0 0 15 1 7 10 195
In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015) 0 0 0 4 2 7 11 56
Incentive versus Cost-Plus Contracts in Defense Procurement 0 0 1 172 0 3 6 642
Information and voting: An empirical note 0 0 0 4 0 5 6 28
Innovation and the opportunity cost of monopoly 0 0 1 94 3 11 15 505
Intellectual Collaboration 0 2 4 201 1 11 23 637
J. S. Mill's New Political Economy: Another View 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 170
James M. Buchanan: In Memoriam 0 0 1 20 1 3 4 54
Legislation and Political Business Cycles 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 88
Legislators as Taxicabs: On the Value of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives 0 0 0 0 0 11 14 137
Legislatures as Unions 0 0 1 20 1 3 5 93
Life in the Gulag: A Property Rights Perspective 0 0 1 8 1 6 10 63
Macroeconomic Determinants of the Vote in Presidential Elections 0 0 0 4 0 3 5 33
Managerial Rents and Outside Recruitment in the Coasian Firm 0 0 0 36 1 3 10 188
Marginal Deterrence and Multiple Murders 0 0 0 3 1 6 13 28
Market Failure, the Common-Pool Problem, and Ocean Resource Exploitation 0 0 1 16 0 3 8 718
Mercantilist Origins of the Corporation 0 0 2 205 4 7 13 851
Methodenstreit: The economics of competing interests 0 1 2 111 2 7 9 315
Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule Revisited 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 882
Morality and Monopoly: The Constitutional Political Economy of Religious Rules 0 0 3 58 0 5 12 184
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting rules: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 18 0 1 3 83
ON THE SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR WEALTH‐MAXIMIZING CONDUCT 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 89
Old wine, new wine 0 0 0 55 0 4 5 166
On Equalizing the Distribution of Political Income 0 0 0 24 0 5 7 147
On good government 0 0 0 32 0 1 4 95
On neoinstitutional theory and preclassical economies: mercantilism revisited 1 1 5 29 1 8 22 102
On the Incentives of Judges to Enforce Legislative Wealth Transfers 0 0 1 18 2 8 11 256
On the Third Law of Demand 0 0 0 89 2 5 5 1,027
Peacock and Wiseman on the Growth of Public Expenditure: Editor's Note 0 0 0 0 1 6 13 745
Political Entry Barriers and Tax Incidence: The Political Economy of Sales and Excise Taxes 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 107
Political influence and the ratification of the income tax amendment 0 0 0 17 0 4 4 109
Power, Politics, and Prosperity: Alternative Views of Economic Interdependence 0 0 0 1 1 9 9 12
Preaching matters 0 0 1 199 0 9 15 473
Preliminary Evidence on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 109
Price leadership with incomplete information 0 0 0 18 0 2 4 63
Public Choice and Antitrust 0 0 0 9 3 7 11 53
Public choice in the new century 0 0 0 104 0 6 8 229
Quality Control in Economics 0 0 0 5 0 3 8 25
RATES OF PUBLICATION PER FACULTY MEMBER IN FORTY‐FIVE “RATED” ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS* 0 0 0 1 0 8 8 10
RENT SEEKING: A SURVEY 0 2 25 225 3 12 49 2,397
Racial Integration as an Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues 0 0 1 185 1 6 17 1,156
Racial Integration of Coaching 0 0 0 12 0 4 6 62
Rates of Publication per Faculty Member in Forty-Five "Rated" Economics Departments 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 147
Rational Self-Taxation: Complementary Inputs and Excise Taxation 0 0 0 6 0 3 3 238
Rational choice and the taxation of sin 0 0 0 43 1 9 13 124
Rational choice and the taxation of sin: Reply 0 0 0 23 0 5 5 67
Regulators and Redskins 0 0 0 9 1 6 8 63
Regulatory finance in alternative models of regulation: General fund financing versus earmarked taxation 0 0 0 36 2 6 9 172
Religious participation and income 0 0 0 169 1 7 14 527
Remembering Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 5 0 3 5 44
Rent Seeking and the Restriction of Human Exchange 0 0 0 10 0 5 8 183
Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution 0 0 0 118 0 3 7 302
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 25
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 23
Reviews 0 0 0 1 0 4 9 36
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 17
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 31
Reviews 0 0 0 1 1 5 6 32
Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform 0 0 3 42 2 7 13 356
Self-Interest, Public Interest, and Public Health 0 0 0 0 0 5 9 186
Spatial aspects of ticket scalping 0 0 0 27 0 3 4 113
State budget sizes and the marginal productivity of governors 0 0 0 2 1 4 8 19
Superdissipation 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 23
Technology, Profit Risk, and Assessments of Market Performance 0 0 0 15 0 9 10 97
Terrorism and pork-barrel spending 0 1 2 40 0 7 11 311
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 0 3 3 10
The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 117
The Coase Theorem and Quasi-Rents: Correcting the Record 0 0 0 2 1 6 7 33
The Designated Hitter Rule and the Distribution of Pitching Talent Across Leagues 0 0 0 37 0 3 7 106
The Disinterest in Deregulation 0 0 0 53 1 6 11 205
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 16 1 5 6 160
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 4 0 2 3 138
The Economic Determinants of Antitrust Activity 1 1 1 11 2 7 10 221
The Economic Theory of Clubs: A Geometric Exposition 0 0 0 0 1 4 11 186
The Economics of the Counter-Reformation: Incumbent-Firm Reaction to Market Entry 0 0 0 142 4 20 24 1,039
The Exercise of Market Power in Laboratory Experiments: Comment 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 77
The Half-Life of Dead Economists 0 0 0 19 0 5 11 253
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs 0 0 0 29 0 5 8 301
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs: Reply 0 0 0 3 0 2 6 172
The Interest‐Group Theory of Government: Problems and Prospects 0 0 1 3 0 5 7 18
The Length of Legislative Sessions and the Growth of Government 0 0 1 2 0 4 6 13
The Logic of Natural Monopoly Regulation 0 0 1 198 0 7 11 780
The Market Provision of Addiction Control Services 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 23
The Monopsony Power of the Median Voter 0 0 0 4 1 2 6 37
The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill: The Means to Social Justice 0 0 0 16 0 4 9 424
The Next Twenty-Five Years of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 84
The Pope and the Price of Meat: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 10 1 6 9 334
The Price of Influence in an Interest-Group Economy 0 0 0 1 1 8 10 19
The Probability of Being President 0 0 0 60 3 14 39 727
The Random Character of Merger Activity 0 0 0 145 0 6 7 723
The Shadow Price of Sunshine: Reply 0 0 0 0 1 9 11 44
The Supply of Occupational Regulation 0 0 0 0 1 6 6 67
The Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System: Reply 0 0 0 3 0 8 12 81
The War on Drugs as Antitrust Regulation 0 0 0 17 0 5 6 75
The convergence of satisficing to marginalism: An empirical test 0 0 0 6 0 4 6 62
The economic organization of the English East India Company 0 1 2 166 1 7 11 452
The economic theory of rent seeking 0 0 2 219 2 5 16 567
The economics of sin and redemption: Purgatory as a market-pull innovation? 0 0 0 324 2 7 12 864
The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state 0 0 1 153 0 5 9 320
The positive economics of antitrust policy: A survey article 0 0 0 79 0 5 7 219
The rookie draft and competitive balance: The case of professional football 1 1 1 258 2 9 16 570
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 0 16 0 4 6 98
The unfinished business of public choice 0 0 1 47 1 5 9 149
The welfare costs of monopoly are larger than you think 0 0 0 74 0 2 4 202
Time inconsistency and fiscal policy: Empirical analysis of U.S. States, 1969-89 0 0 0 228 1 4 7 504
Toenote to a Footnote 0 0 0 0 0 7 12 155
Tradeable Shares and the Supply-Side of Corporate Development: Reply 0 0 0 8 0 2 7 237
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 0 5 6 161
Using (im)perfect markets to catch criminals 0 0 0 11 0 8 8 71
Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams? A Comment 0 0 0 9 1 4 7 66
Why do black basketball players work more for less money? 0 0 0 125 2 5 8 849
“Rubbin’ is racin''': evidence of the Peltzman effect from NASCAR 0 0 1 59 1 5 7 238
Total Journal Articles 8 17 114 8,971 158 1,081 1,859 52,412
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Economic Origins of Roman Christianity 0 0 0 0 3 4 10 124
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm 0 0 0 0 1 8 23 1,374
The Marketplace of Christianity 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 295
Total Books 0 0 0 0 4 15 38 1,793


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Buchanan and Tullock on law and economics 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 8
Clubs and club goods 0 0 0 26 0 5 7 107
Free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 9
James M. Buchanan (1919- ) 0 0 0 0 1 9 11 15
Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society 0 0 1 1 4 11 29 38
Public choice and religion 0 0 0 14 0 8 9 51
TITAN AGONISTES: THE WEALTH EFFECTS OF THE STANDARD OIL (N. J.) CASE 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 9
The Perspective of Economics 0 0 0 1 1 6 11 78
The interest-group theory of government 2 2 3 76 3 8 10 395
Total Chapters 2 2 4 119 13 56 89 710


Statistics updated 2026-04-09