Books and Monographs

1. Authored Books

Media, Development and Institutional Change, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009. (with P. Leeson)

Chapter 1 available here.

Reviews, editorials and media available here.

After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, California: Stanford University Press, 2008.

Chapter 1 available here.

Reviews, editorials and media available here.

2. Edited Books

The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming. (with R. Mathers)

3. Authored Monographs

Context Matters: Entrepreneurship and Institutions, Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship Monograph Series, 2009. (with P. Boettke)

Journal Articles

“Cointegrating Institutions: The Time-Series Properties of Country Institutional Measures,” Journal of Law and Economics, forthcoming (with R. Sobel)

“The Non-Productive Entrepreneurial Process,” The Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming. (with R. Sobel and J. Dove)

“Making Economics a Transformative Experience,” The Journal of Private Enterprise, forthcoming.

“Takings,” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, forthcoming (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Entrepreneurship and the Taste for Discrimination,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2010, 20(4): 609-627. (with J. Isaacs and J. Schwartz)

“Asset Values and the Sustainability of Peace Prospects,” The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2010, 50(2): 146-156. (with G. Dempster and J. Isaacs)

“Comment on Hanssen and Meehan, 'Who Integrated Major League Baseball Faster Winning Teams or Losing Teams?',” Journal of Sports Economics, 2010, 11(2): 227-231. (with J. Isaacs and J. Schwartz)

“The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2010, 14: 227-252. (with R. Mathers)

“The Problem of Credible Commitment in Reconstruction,” Journal of Institutional Economics, 2009, 5(1): 1-23. (with P. Boettke)

“Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement,” Kyklos, 2009, 62(1): 1-14. (with P. Leeson)

“With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 14(1): 26-44. (with M. Ryan)

“Government Intervention and the Structure of Social Capital,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2008, 21(2/3): 209-218. (with A. Carilli and P. Leeson)

“The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek’s Political Economy,” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2008, 11: 79-98. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson).

“The Politics of Bureaucracy and the Failure of Post-War Reconstruction,” Public Choice, 2008, 135: 11-22.

“How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making,” Journal of Economic Issues, 2008, XXLII (3): 727-743. (with P. Leeson)

“Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2008, 67(2): 331-358. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2007, 17(2-3): 49-65. (with R. Sobel and P. Leeson)

“The Reformers’ Dilemma: Media, Policy Ownership and Reform,” European Journal of Law and Economics, 2007, 23: 237-250. (with P. Leeson)

“Saving Government Failure Theory from Itself: Recasting Political Economy from an Austrian Perspective,” Constitutional Political Economy, 2007, 18(2): 127-143. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Put Me in Coach, I'm Ready to Play,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2007, 20(4): 237-246. (with J. Isaacs, J. Schwartz and A. Carilli)

“Nineteen Public Bads of Empire, Nation Building, and the Like,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 12(2): 129-132. (with S. Davies)

“Deconstructing Reconstruction: The Overlooked Challenges of Military Occupation,” The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2007, 2(2): 76-82.

“Reconstruction and Reconciliation: What's Economics Got to Do With It?” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 2007, Winter/Spring: 69-84.

“Empire: Public Goods and Bads,” Econ Journal Watch, 2007, 4(1): 3-45. (with S. Davies)

“The Political Economy of Forgiveness,” Society, 2007, 44(2): 53-59. (with P. Boettke)

“Liberalism in the Post-9/11 World,” Indian Journal of Economics & Business, 2007, Special Issue, 35-53. (with P. Boettke)

“Culture, Common Knowledge and Post-Conflict Reconstruction,” Journal of Intercultural Communication, 2007, 13.

“Where Economics And Philosophy Meet,” Economic Journal, 2006, 116(512): F306-F325. (with P. Boettke, J. Davis, F. Guala, A. Marciano, J. Runde and M. Schabas)

“Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Foreign Intervention and the Nirvana Fallacy,” Foreign Policy Analysis, 2006, 2: 343-361.

“Reconstructing Weak and Failed States: Insights from Tocqueville,” The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, 2006, 31(2): 143-162.

“Converting Social Conflict: Focal Points and the Evolution of Social Cooperation,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19(2/3): 137-147. (with P. Leeson and P. Boettke)

“Does the Market Self-Correct? Asymmetrical Adjustment and the Structure of Economic Error,” Review of Political Economy, 2006, 18(1): 79-90. (with P. Leeson and P. Boettke)

“The Role of the Economist in Economic Development,” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19(2): 47-68. (with P. Boettke)

“High Priests and Lowly Philosophers: The Battle for the Soul of Economics,” Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2006, 56(3): 551-568. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

Translated and reprinted as "Sacerdotes Supremos Y Filosofos Humildes: La

Batalla Por El Alma De La Economia," in Revista de Economía y Derecho (Journal of Law and Economics), N°10, OTOÑO 2006.

“Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005, 57: 145-158. (with P. Boettke)

“Who’s to Protect Cyberspace?” Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 2005, 1(2): 473-495. (with P. Leeson)

“The Economics of Computer Hacking,” Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 2005, 1(2): 511-532. (with P. Leeson)

“Manipulating the Media,” Institutions and Economic Development, 2005, 1-2: 67-92. (with P. Leeson)

“Institutions, Immigration and Identity,” NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2005 1(3): 131-154. (with P. Boettke)

“The New Comparative Political Economy,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18(3/4): 281-304. (with P. Boettke, P. Leeson, and F. Sautet).

“The Institutional Prerequisites for Post-Conflict Reconstruction,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18(3/4): 325-342.

“Postwar Reconstruction: Some Insights from Public Choice and Institutional Economics,” Constitutional Political Economy, 2005, 16: 31-48. (with T. Cowen)

“The Many Faces of the Market,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2004, 14(2): 71-86. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries,” Cato Journal, 2004, 24(3): 235-249. (With P. Leeson)

“Read All About It! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development,” Kyklos, 2004, 57: 21-44. (with P. Leeson)

“The Forgotten Contribution: Murray Rothbard on Socialism in Theory and Practice,” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2004, 7(2): 71-89. (with P. Boettke)

“Knowledge, Economics and Coordination: Understanding Hayek’s Legal Theory," NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2004, 1: 209-224. (with S. Beaulier and P. Boettke)

“Entrepreneurship and Development: Cause or Consequence?” Advances in Austrian Economics, 2003, 6: 67-88. (with P. Boettke)

“Do Pessimistic Assumptions About Human Behavior Justify Government?” The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Fall 2003, 17 no. 4: 1-23. (with B. Powell)

“Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics,” Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought, June 2003, 43: 1-10. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Order in the Jungle: Social Interaction without the State,” The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Spring 2003, 7(4): 557 - 566.

Reprinted in Edward Stringham, ed., Anarchy, State, and Public Choice,

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, pp. 49-59.

Contributions to Books

“How are Institutions Related?” in, James Gwartney and Robert Lawson, Economic Freedom of the World: 2010 Annual Report (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute), forthcoming. (with R. Sobel).

“Introduction to The Handbook on the Political Economy of War,” in Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers, eds., The Handbook on the Political Economy of War (Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.), forthcoming. (with R. Mathers)

“Somalia: Understanding the Feasible Institutions,” in Somalia: Economic, Political and Social Issues (Nova Publishers), Frank Columbus, ed., forthcoming. (with P. Leeson)

“Hayek vs. the Neoclassicists: Lessons from the Socialist Calculation Debate,” inThe Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing), Norman Barry, ed., forthcoming. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Land Grab: Takings, the Market Process, and Regime Uncertainty,” in Property Wrongs: The Law and Economics of Takings (Palgrave Macmillan), Bruce Benson, ed., 2010, pp. 173-186. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Economics as the Study of Coordination and Exchange” in Handbook of Austrian Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing), Peter J. Boettke, ed., 2010, pp. 14-29.

“The Importance of Expectations in Economic Development,” in Emily Chamlee-Wright, ed., Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, Volume 1 (Beloit College Press), 2009, pp. 63-82.

“An Entrepreneurial Theory of Social and Cultural Change,” in Markets and Civil Society, (Berghahn Books), Víctor Pérez-Díaz, ed., 2009, pp. 77-103. (with P. Boettke)

“The Political Economy of the Philanthropic Enterprise,” in Non-market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Edward Elgar Publishing), Gordon Shockley, Peter Frank and Roger Stough, eds., 2008. pp. 71-88. (with P. Boettke)

“Entrepreneurship or Entremanureship? Digging through Romania's Institutional Environment for Transition Lessons,” in Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford University Press), Benjamin Powell, ed., 2008, pp. 223-249. (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Happiness and Economics Research: Insights from Austrian and Public Choice Economics,” in Happiness and Public Policy: Theory, Case Studies, and Implications, (Palgrave Macmillan), Yew-Kwang Ng and Lok-Sang Ho, eds., 2006, pp. 89-105. (with P. Boettke)

“Entrepreneurial Behavior and Institutions,” in The Entrepreneurial Process, Volume 1. Praeger Perspectives Series. (Praeger Press), Maria Minniti, ed., 2006, pp. 119-134. (with P. Boettke)

“Concerting Entrepreneurship: An International Public Good,” in European-American Trade and Financial Alliances, (Edward Elgar Publishing), Gavin Boyd, Alan M. Rugman and Pier Carlo Padoan, eds., 2005, pp. 199-226. (with P. Boettke)

“James M. Buchanan (1919-),” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press), James R. Shook, General Editor, 2005, pp. 373-377. (with P. Boettke)

“Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992),” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press), James R. Shook, General Editor, 2005, pp. 1075-1077. (with P. Boettke)

“Frank H. Knight (1885-1972),” in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (Thoemmes Press), James R. Shook, General Editor, 2005, pp. 1322-1325. (with P. Boettke)

“Swedish Influences, Austrian Advances: The Contributions of the Swedish and Austrian Schools to Market Process Theory,” in The Evolution of the Market Process: Austrian and Swedish Economics (Routledge Publishing), Michel Bellet, Sandye Gloria-Palermo and Abdallah Zouache, (Eds.), 2004, pp. 20-31. (with P. Boettke)

Review Essays and Book Reviews

1. Review Essays

“The Politics and Economics of Global Interventionism” A Review Essay of Opposing the Crusader State, Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close (eds)., The Review of Austrian Economics, 2009 22(2): 181-191.

2. Book Reviews

Review of Graciana Del Castillo, Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction, Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming

• Commissioned as part of the “Critical Exchange” series.

Review of Peter Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, Global Crime, 2010, 11(1): 67-71.

Review of Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World, Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, 2009, 1(3): 29-31.

Review of Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe, eds., The Economics of Transparency in Politics, Public Choice, 2009, 138(1/2): 259-261.

Review of Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Economic Affairs, 2008, 28(1): 82-83.

Review of Adrian Vermeule, Mechanisms of Democracy: Institutional Design Writ Small, Public Choice, 2008, 136(1-2): 241-244.

Review of David Robertson, International Economics and Confusing Politics, Economic Affairs, 2007, 27(4): 93-94.

Review of Virgil Henry Storr, Enterprising Slaves & Master Pirates: Understanding Economic Life in the Bahamas, The Review of Austrian Economics, 2007, 29(2/3): 205-208.

Review of David Harper, Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, The Review of Austrian Economics, 2005, 18(2): 219-221.

Review of Francis Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2004, 63(4): 951-953.

Review of Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox, Humane Studies Review, June 2004.

Policy Papers

“The Impact of FEMA Reorganization: Implications for Policy,” Mercatus Policy Series, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, February 2009, (with P. Leeson and R. Sobel)

“Exiting Iraq: The Economic Reasoning,” Global Studies Bulletin, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University, Fall 2005, p. 4.

“The Role of Media as a Supporting Institution: Implications for Development,” Mercatus Policy Series, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, June 2005.

Other Papers

“Best Case, Worst Case and the Golden Mean in Political Economy: An Introduction to a symposium on Tim Besley’s Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government,” The Review of Austrian Economics, 2009, 22(2): 123-125 (with P. Boettke)

“Unintended Consequences: How Regulation Changes Behavior,” Fraiser Forum, July, 2009, pp., 16-17.

Current Projects & Working Papers

1. Authored Books

The Ability to Protect: The Limits of Humanitarian Action

- under contract with Stanford University Press

2. Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“The Identity Economics of Female Genital Mutilation” (with R. Mathers)

“Trade Openness and Culture” (with C. Williamson)

“Comparative Historical Political Economy: An Old Research Program in a Modern Age” (with P. Boettke and P. Leeson)

“Global Public Bads”(wih M. Ryan)

“Rituals: An Economic Interpretation” (with R. Mathers)

“The Traps of Economic Reconstruction” (with A. Pellillo)

“The Economic Reconstruction of Iraq”

“Conflict-Inhibiting Norms” (with P. Leeson)

“An Austrian Inquiry Into the Wealth of Nations” (with P. Leeson)

“An Unrighteous Piece of Business: A New Institutional Analysis of the Memphis Riot of 1866” (with A. Carden)

“Constitutions and Crisis”