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Academic Journal Articles

"Understanding Academic Journal Market Failure: The Case of Austrian Economics"
(with J. Robert Subrick)
Eastern Economic Journal, conditional acceptance

"Collective Consumption Externalities and Charitable Giving"
(with Josh Hall)
New Perspectives on Political Economy, forthcoming

"Reform in the Legal-Economic Nexus: Lessons from the Buchanan-Samuels Exchange"
(with J. Robert Subrick)
American Review of Political Economy, forthcoming

"The Traders' Cross: Identifying Traders' Surpluses in the Traditional Edgeworth Exhcange Diagram"
(with David Prychitko)
Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming

"The Influence of Economists on Public Attitudes Towards Government"
(with Bill Boyes and Skip Mounts)
The American Economist, forthcoming

"High Cotton: Why the United States Should No Longer Provide Agricultural Subsidies to Cotton Farmers"
(with Madeline Helling and Josh Hall)
Economic Affairs, 2008 28 (2): 65-66

"Limited Government and Economic Growth in Botswana"
(with J. Robert Subrick)
Journal of Private Enterprise, 2007 XXIII (1): 51-64

"Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State"
(with Bryan Caplan)
Kyklos, 2007 60 (4): 485-508

"Mining Institutional Quality: How Botswana Escaped the Natural Resource Curse"
(with J. Robert Subrick)
Indian Journal of Economics and Business Special Issue, 2007: 55-68

"Poverty Traps and the Robust Political Economy of Development Assistance"
(with J. Robert Subrick)
Review of Austrian Economics, 2006 19 (2-3): 217-226

"Political Foundations of Development: The Case of Botswana"
(with J. Robert Subrick)
Constitutional Political Economy, 2006 17 (2): 103-115

"Disagreement over the Emergence of Private Property Rights: Alternative Meanings, Alternative Explanations"
(with David Prychitko)
Review of Austrian Economics, 2006 19 (1): 47-68

"Knowledge, Economics, and Coordination: Understanding Hayek's Legal Theory"
(with Chris Coyne and Peter Boettke)
NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, 2004 1 (Fall): 209-224

"Is Discourse Relevant for Economic Development?"
Independent Review, 2004 VIII (3): 343-361

Explaining Botswana's Success: The Important Role of Post-Colonial Policy"
Cato Journal, 2003 23 (2): 227-240

"Does Morality Hamper the Market Process?  A Reappraisal of the Mises Thesis"
(with David Prychitko)
Journal of Markets and Morality, 2001 4(1): 43-54

"Of Norms, Rules, and Markets: A Comment on Samuels"
(with Peter Boettke)
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2000, 10 (4): 547-552



Contributions to Books

"Asymmetric Information About Perfect Competition: The Treatment of Perfect Information in Introductory Textbooks"
(with Skip Mounts)
in Expanding Teaching and Learning Horizons in Higher Education: Essays on Economic Education (Nova Science Publishers), Franklin Mixon, Jr. and Richard Cebula, eds., forthcoming. 

"Export Subsidies"
(with Josh Hall)
in Encylopedia of Business in Today's
World, Charles Frankel, ed., forthcoming.

"From Entrepreneur to Manager: A Brief Consideration of Economic Transition"
(with Josh Hall and Skip Mounts)

"Without Private Property, There Can Be No Rational Economic Calculation" in, Handbook of Austrian Economics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), Peter Boettke, ed., forthcoming

"Nakumatt: A Kenyan Supermarket" (with June Arunga) in Lessons from the Poor (Oakland, CA: Independent Institute), Alvaro Vargas Llosa, ed., 2008, 121-162

"Look Botswana: No Hands!  Why Botswana's Government Should Let the Economy Steer Itself"
in, Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press), Benjamin Powell, ed., 2008: 396-428

"Polycentrism and Power: A Reply to Warren Samuels"
in, Anarhcy, State, and Public Choice (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), Edward Stringham, ed., 2005: 178-190

"The Really Real in Economics"
(with Peter Boettke)
in, Transforming Economics (London: Routledge), Paul Lewis, ed., 2004: 187-201



Book Reviews

Review of Richard Markovits's Truth or Economics
Law & Politics Book Review, August 2008.

Review of Carl Zimring's Cash for Your Trash
EH.net, April 2008.

Review of Thomas Sowell's Applied Economics and Basic Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 59 (3): 450-453.

Review of William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth
Liberty Guide, 2004



Articles Under Review

"Mr. Hayek, I Presume?  Can Economists Explain African Underdevelpoment, or Are They Lost in the Bush?"




Working Papers

"Bidding for Success: Why Direct Auction Privatizations Lead to Successful Transitions"

"The Impact of Political Factors on Military Base Closures"
(with Joshua Hall and Allen Lynch)

"On Safari, in Search of the Golden Arches"
(with Anemone R. M. Beaulier)

"The Production and Proliferation of Economists: The Austrian and Public Choice Schools as Academic Enterprises"
(with Joshua Hall)

"Rhetoric versus Reality Revisited"





























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