Publications - Published Research

Disagreement Over the Emergence of Property Rights: Alternative Meanings, Alternative Explanations

David Prychitko, Scott Beaulier | Jan 01, 2006
This paper is an exercise in the history of thought, which compares Austrian and neoclassical theories of the emergence of private property rights, and examines, in part, the extent to which…

An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense to Copyright Infringement Actions

Jerry Brito, Bridget C. E. Dooling | Jan 01, 2006
The Copyright Office has submitted a report to Congress outlining the extent of the orphan works problem and recommending a legislative solution. This article proposes a new orphan works affirmative…

Demystifying Bay Street

Black Tuesday and the Radicalization of Bahamian Politics in the 1960s
Published in
The Journal of Caribbean History
Virgil Storr, Nona Martin | Jan 2006
This article is an effort to trace the radicalization of Bahamian politics that occurred in the 1960s.

Teaching Economics Through Ayn Rand

How the Economy is Like a Novel and How the Novel Can Teach Us About Economics
Published in
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Peter J. Boettke | Dec 2005
Another constant that I have continued to come back to was the use of novels as a teaching tool in economics, and from the beginning I have used Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957) as one of the primary novels.

Primer on Regulation

Susan Dudley | Dec 06, 2005
The "Primer on Regulation" provides an overview of regulation, from theoretical issues of why we see regulation where we do, to analytical questions of how to write a good…

The New Comparative Political Economy

Published in
Review of Austrian Economics
Christopher Coyne, Frederic Sautet, Peter J. Boettke, Peter Leeson | Dec 05, 2005
In this paper we survey the new learning in comparative political economy and suggest how this learning should redirect our attention in economic development.

Reciprocity and Social Order: What Do Experiments Tell Us About Economic Growth?

Kevin McCabe | Dec 01, 2005
This paper makes three observations for policy-makers, interested in promoting economic growth, based on the experimental work done at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science. First,…

It is time to Reevaluate the Toxic Release Inventory

Susan Dudley | Dec 01, 2005
This Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review article suggests that EPA take stock of the Toxic Release Inventory and evaluate ways to make it more effective at providing communities with…

State Development Planning: Did it Create an Asian Miracle?

Benjamin Powell | Dec 01, 2005
This paper critically assesses the arguments surrounding state development planning and East Asia’s growth. Whether the state can acquire the knowledge necessary to calculate which industries it…

Who's to Protect Cyberspace?

Published in
Journal of Law, Economics and Policy
Christopher Coyne, Peter Leeson | Dec 01, 2005
This paper contends that economic principles have been excluded from the debate about who should provide cyber security. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We postulate that an analysis of cyber security in the absence of economic considerations is incomplete. Toward this end, we employ several economic concepts in order to offer insight to policymakers involved in this debate.