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Inheritance, Equal Division and Rent Seeking 0 0 0 114 4 5 6 477
Total Working Papers 0 0 0 114 4 5 6 477


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1966 0 0 0 11 5 5 5 76
A Defense of the CEA as an Instrument for Giving Economic Policy Advice: Comment 0 0 0 7 3 4 5 61
A Note on the Theory of Black Markets under Price Controls 0 0 0 0 4 7 9 123
A Proposal for Marginal Cost Financing of Higher Education 0 0 0 0 3 5 9 67
A Public Choice Theory of the Great Contraction: Further Evidence 0 0 0 0 4 7 9 218
A Snipe Hunt 0 0 0 48 3 4 4 255
A Theory of Legislative Organization: Making the Most of Your Majority 0 0 0 2 3 4 9 133
A Theory of Truth in Autobiography 0 0 2 7 1 1 8 32
A comment on economic analysis and just compensation 0 0 0 20 1 2 2 75
A further partial changing of the guard 0 0 0 7 3 3 5 57
A public choice theory of the great contraction 0 0 0 3 5 8 12 81
A theory of commodity bundling in final product markets: Professor Hirshleifer meets Professor Becker 0 0 0 43 5 5 5 177
A theory of rational childhood 0 0 1 29 3 6 8 96
Adam Smith in the Customhouse 0 0 0 61 3 7 13 209
Adam Smith on Religion and Market Structure 0 0 0 30 3 3 4 116
Adam Smith's Analysis of Joint-Stock Companies 0 1 5 285 4 7 14 1,822
Advertising and Profitability 0 0 1 184 3 3 8 638
Affirmative action and unemployment 0 0 0 69 2 3 4 413
Age and productivity: An empirical study of early American artists 0 0 1 11 7 9 14 73
Alphabetized coauthorship 1 1 1 54 6 9 12 238
An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation 0 1 4 1,067 6 13 24 5,092
An Economic Model of Performance Contracting in Education 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 37
An Economic Model of the Medieval Church: Usury as a Form of Rent Seeking 0 0 0 0 6 10 14 1,167
An economic theory of mutually advantageous issue linkages in international negotiations 0 2 7 58 2 5 11 197
Antitrust Pork Barrel 0 0 2 25 2 6 9 329
Antitrust in the Reagan administration: A report from the Belly of the beast 0 0 0 19 1 3 7 117
Apologiae for Chartered Monopolies in Foreign Trade, 1600–1800 0 0 0 13 5 5 8 47
Arbtrage in a Basketball Economy 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 21
Are Art Auction Estimates Biased? 0 0 2 22 4 10 16 99
Are auction revenues affected by rising art buyers' premia? The case of early American art 0 0 0 7 6 7 8 51
Attenuated Property Rights and the Market for Governors 0 0 0 11 3 7 10 249
Barristers and Barriers: Sir Edward Coke and the Regulation of Trade 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 29
Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsmen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 558
Bequests, sibling rivalry, and rent seeking 0 0 1 34 1 3 7 102
Book Review: Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory 0 0 0 8 1 1 1 46
Book Review: Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who’s Paying For It 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3
Book Review: The (peculiar) economics of NCAA basketball 0 0 0 1 4 6 6 8
Book reviews 0 0 0 1 3 4 7 20
Campaign Expenditures and Political Competition 0 0 0 5 4 7 9 138
Cathedral Building as an Entry‐Deterring Device 0 0 0 88 1 1 2 406
Celestial marriage and earthly rents: Interests and the prohibition of polygamy 0 0 0 75 1 3 7 265
Chaining Leviathan: the Case of Gladstonian Finance 0 0 0 12 2 6 7 44
Charles K. Rowley: In Memoriam 0 0 0 4 3 6 6 34
Chicago Political Economy 0 0 0 1 3 6 9 34
Chivalry in golf? 0 0 0 18 2 3 6 85
Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending, 1933-1939 0 0 1 36 5 9 12 537
Consumer Choice and the Popular Music Industry: A Test of the Superstar Theory 0 0 2 199 2 4 11 473
Contractual exchange and the timing of payment 0 0 0 28 4 8 10 243
Corporate Chartering: An Exploration in the Economics of Legal Change 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 155
Crime and income distribution in a basketball economy 0 0 0 34 3 4 6 156
Crime on the Court 0 0 1 208 3 8 12 724
Crime on the Court, Another Look: Reply to Hutchinson and Yates 0 0 0 47 6 8 10 228
Crime or punishment?: Enforcement of the NCAA football cartel 0 0 0 136 1 3 5 399
Democracy, Interest Groups, and the Price of Votes 0 0 1 7 5 6 7 46
Dry Holes in Economic Research 0 0 0 81 3 7 7 375
Dry Holes in Economic Research: Reply 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 146
Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited 0 0 0 0 4 6 7 238
Economic Regulation, Competitive Governments, and Specialized Resources 0 0 0 5 3 3 3 212
Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective 0 0 2 5 6 9 14 23
Economics and metrology: Give 'em an inch and they'll take a kilometre 0 0 0 39 0 5 5 114
Economics and the architecture of popular music 0 0 4 168 3 6 13 396
Economist and the environment 0 0 0 8 3 4 5 78
Economists and the Economy 0 0 0 30 1 5 7 177
Editorial 0 0 0 16 1 3 4 69
Educational achievement and the cost of bureaucracy 0 0 0 80 3 5 6 293
Efficacy of shaming penalties: Evidence from SEC football 0 1 1 37 3 4 6 240
Efficient Lobbying and Earmarked Taxes 0 0 1 5 7 18 19 50
Efficient rents 2 free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 6 3 6 8 55
Electoral Politics and the Executive Veto: A Predictive Theory 0 0 0 0 4 7 10 350
Elinor Ostrom and the commons 0 0 0 33 2 3 5 90
Explaining U.S. Federal Deficits: 1889--1998 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 490
Fed Behavior in Periods of Price and Wage Controls 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 71
Final Voting in Legislatures 0 0 0 31 11 11 15 136
Fiscal Federalism: a Voting System Where Spillovers Taper Off Spatially 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 20
Fiscal preference and balanced budget fiscal policy 0 0 0 1 3 5 6 17
Free Riding, Shirking, and Team Production in Legal Partnerships 0 0 0 0 4 6 10 632
Going for the Gold: Property Rights and Athletic Effort in Transitional Economies 0 0 0 6 5 5 8 20
Good colleagues 0 0 0 52 3 5 7 281
Gordon Tullock's Contributions to the Theory of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 466
Gordon Tullock: Creative Maverick of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 2 5 5 111
Government output and national income estimates: A comment 0 0 0 7 1 2 3 74
Graphs in Economics 0 1 7 157 7 10 36 1,071
Import Controls on Foreign Oil: Comment 0 0 0 15 3 3 7 191
In memory of Cotton Mather Lindsay (6/17/1940–1/16/2015) 0 0 0 4 4 6 9 53
Incentive versus Cost-Plus Contracts in Defense Procurement 0 0 1 172 2 3 5 641
Information and voting: An empirical note 0 0 0 4 3 4 4 26
Innovation and the opportunity cost of monopoly 0 0 1 94 8 9 12 502
Intellectual Collaboration 2 2 5 201 6 11 20 632
J. S. Mill's New Political Economy: Another View 0 0 0 0 4 5 7 170
James M. Buchanan: In Memoriam 0 0 1 20 0 0 2 51
Legislation and Political Business Cycles 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 88
Legislators as Taxicabs: On the Value of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives 0 0 0 0 8 9 11 134
Legislatures as Unions 0 0 1 20 2 3 4 92
Life in the Gulag: A Property Rights Perspective 0 0 1 8 5 6 9 62
Macroeconomic Determinants of the Vote in Presidential Elections 0 0 0 4 3 4 5 33
Managerial Rents and Outside Recruitment in the Coasian Firm 0 0 0 36 1 3 9 186
Marginal Deterrence and Multiple Murders 0 0 0 3 5 10 12 27
Market Failure, the Common-Pool Problem, and Ocean Resource Exploitation 0 0 1 16 1 2 7 716
Mercantilist Origins of the Corporation 0 0 2 205 3 5 9 847
Methodenstreit: The economics of competing interests 0 1 1 110 2 4 5 310
Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule Revisited 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 881
Morality and Monopoly: The Constitutional Political Economy of Religious Rules 0 0 4 58 4 6 12 183
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting rules: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 18 1 3 3 83
ON THE SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS FOR WEALTH‐MAXIMIZING CONDUCT 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 85
Old wine, new wine 0 0 0 55 3 4 4 165
On Equalizing the Distribution of Political Income 0 0 0 24 4 5 6 146
On good government 0 0 0 32 1 4 4 95
On neoinstitutional theory and preclassical economies: mercantilism revisited 0 1 4 28 5 12 20 99
On the Incentives of Judges to Enforce Legislative Wealth Transfers 0 1 1 18 4 6 7 252
On the Third Law of Demand 0 0 0 89 1 1 1 1,023
Peacock and Wiseman on the Growth of Public Expenditure: Editor's Note 0 0 0 0 4 8 11 743
Political Entry Barriers and Tax Incidence: The Political Economy of Sales and Excise Taxes 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 105
Political influence and the ratification of the income tax amendment 0 0 0 17 3 3 4 108
Power, Politics, and Prosperity: Alternative Views of Economic Interdependence 0 0 0 1 4 4 5 7
Preaching matters 0 0 1 199 7 8 14 471
Preliminary Evidence on the Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 107
Price leadership with incomplete information 0 0 0 18 1 2 4 62
Public Choice and Antitrust 0 0 0 9 3 4 7 49
Public choice in the new century 0 0 0 104 3 4 5 226
Quality Control in Economics 0 0 0 5 3 5 8 25
RATES OF PUBLICATION PER FACULTY MEMBER IN FORTY‐FIVE “RATED” ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS* 0 0 0 1 4 4 4 6
RENT SEEKING: A SURVEY 0 1 30 223 4 8 49 2,389
Racial Integration as an Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Sports Leagues 0 1 2 185 2 10 14 1,152
Racial Integration of Coaching 0 0 0 12 2 3 4 60
Rates of Publication per Faculty Member in Forty-Five "Rated" Economics Departments 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 146
Rational Self-Taxation: Complementary Inputs and Excise Taxation 0 0 0 6 3 3 3 238
Rational choice and the taxation of sin 0 0 0 43 5 7 11 120
Rational choice and the taxation of sin: Reply 0 0 0 23 5 5 5 67
Regulators and Redskins 0 0 0 9 5 7 7 62
Regulatory finance in alternative models of regulation: General fund financing versus earmarked taxation 0 0 0 36 3 6 7 169
Religious participation and income 0 0 0 169 2 6 11 522
Remembering Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 5 3 4 6 44
Rent Seeking and the Restriction of Human Exchange 0 0 1 10 4 5 8 182
Rent Seeking into the Income Distribution 0 0 0 118 3 6 7 302
Reviews 0 0 0 1 3 6 8 35
Reviews 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 23
Reviews 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 15
Reviews 0 0 0 1 4 4 5 31
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23
Reviews 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 30
Reviews 0 0 0 0 4 8 9 22
Romance, Realism, and Economic Reform 0 0 4 42 2 3 9 351
Self-Interest, Public Interest, and Public Health 0 0 0 0 4 7 9 185
Spatial aspects of ticket scalping 0 0 0 27 2 3 3 112
State budget sizes and the marginal productivity of governors 0 0 0 2 3 5 7 18
Superdissipation 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 21
Technology, Profit Risk, and Assessments of Market Performance 0 0 0 15 1 1 2 89
Terrorism and pork-barrel spending 0 0 1 39 5 6 9 309
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 1 1 1 8
The Behavior of Regulatory Activity over the Business Cycle: An Empirical Test 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 115
The Coase Theorem and Quasi-Rents: Correcting the Record 0 0 0 2 4 4 5 31
The Designated Hitter Rule and the Distribution of Pitching Talent Across Leagues 0 0 1 37 3 5 8 106
The Disinterest in Deregulation 0 0 0 53 4 5 9 203
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 4 2 2 3 138
The Disinterest in Deregulation: Reply 0 0 0 16 4 4 5 159
The Economic Determinants of Antitrust Activity 0 0 0 10 2 4 5 216
The Economic Theory of Clubs: A Geometric Exposition 0 0 0 0 2 6 9 184
The Economics of the Counter-Reformation: Incumbent-Firm Reaction to Market Entry 0 0 1 142 8 11 14 1,027
The Exercise of Market Power in Laboratory Experiments: Comment 0 0 0 0 3 4 5 77
The Half-Life of Dead Economists 0 0 0 19 4 8 11 252
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs 0 0 0 29 4 4 7 300
The Homogenization of Heterogeneous Inputs: Reply 0 0 0 3 2 4 6 172
The Interest‐Group Theory of Government: Problems and Prospects 0 0 1 3 5 6 7 18
The Length of Legislative Sessions and the Growth of Government 0 0 1 2 2 3 4 11
The Logic of Natural Monopoly Regulation 0 0 1 198 7 7 13 780
The Market Provision of Addiction Control Services 0 0 0 0 6 8 8 23
The Monopsony Power of the Median Voter 0 0 0 4 1 3 5 36
The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill: The Means to Social Justice 0 0 0 16 3 5 8 423
The Next Twenty-Five Years of Public Choice 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 83
The Pope and the Price of Meat: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 10 1 3 6 329
The Price of Influence in an Interest-Group Economy 0 0 0 1 4 4 7 15
The Probability of Being President 0 0 0 60 5 20 35 718
The Random Character of Merger Activity 0 0 0 145 6 7 7 723
The Shadow Price of Sunshine: Reply 0 0 0 0 5 7 7 40
The Supply of Occupational Regulation 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 65
The Use of Inputs by the Federal Reserve System: Reply 0 0 0 3 5 7 9 78
The War on Drugs as Antitrust Regulation 0 0 0 17 3 3 4 73
The convergence of satisficing to marginalism: An empirical test 0 0 0 6 3 4 5 61
The economic organization of the English East India Company 0 0 1 165 5 6 10 450
The economic theory of rent seeking 0 0 2 219 3 5 14 565
The economics of sin and redemption: Purgatory as a market-pull innovation? 0 0 0 324 3 7 13 860
The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state 0 0 1 153 5 7 9 320
The positive economics of antitrust policy: A survey article 0 0 0 79 4 4 6 218
The rookie draft and competitive balance: The case of professional football 0 0 0 257 5 7 14 566
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 1 16 4 4 7 98
The unfinished business of public choice 0 0 1 47 2 4 6 146
The welfare costs of monopoly are larger than you think 0 0 0 74 1 1 3 201
Time inconsistency and fiscal policy: Empirical analysis of U.S. States, 1969-89 0 0 0 228 3 4 9 503
Toenote to a Footnote 0 0 0 0 5 8 11 153
Tradeable Shares and the Supply-Side of Corporate Development: Reply 0 0 0 8 2 6 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 3 4 5 159
Using (im)perfect markets to catch criminals 0 0 0 11 6 6 6 69
Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams? A Comment 0 0 0 9 1 2 4 63
Why do black basketball players work more for less money? 0 0 0 125 3 4 8 847
“Rubbin’ is racin''': evidence of the Peltzman effect from NASCAR 0 1 1 59 3 4 5 236
Total Journal Articles 3 15 121 8,957 617 976 1,504 51,948
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Economic Origins of Roman Christianity 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 121
Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm 0 0 0 0 7 13 31 1,373
The Marketplace of Christianity 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 294
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 19 42 1,788


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Buchanan and Tullock on law and economics 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 7
Clubs and club goods 0 0 0 26 5 5 7 107
Free entry and efficient rent seeking 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 7
James M. Buchanan (1919- ) 0 0 0 0 6 8 8 12
Mercantilism as a Rent-Seeking Society 0 0 1 1 2 9 22 29
Public choice and religion 0 0 0 14 7 8 8 50
TITAN AGONISTES: THE WEALTH EFFECTS OF THE STANDARD OIL (N. J.) CASE 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 8
The Perspective of Economics 0 0 0 1 3 6 23 75
The interest-group theory of government 0 0 1 74 3 4 5 390
Total Chapters 0 0 2 117 31 46 83 685


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