Christopher Coyne

Christopher Coyne

  • Mercatus Center Associated Research Fellow
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University

Chris Coyne is an assistant professor of economics at West Virginia University. He also serves as editor of "The Review of Austrian Economics," as well as a research fellow for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is the author of the book "After the War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy."

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Journal Article

Book Review of 'Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World' by Ashraf Ghani and Claire Lockhart

Christopher Coyne | Jul 11, 2009
A book review of Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart.

Journal Article

Unintended Consequences: How Regulation Changes Behaviour

Christopher Coyne | Jul 01, 2009
This article discusses unintended consequences in relation to regulations and automobile safety laws.

Journal Article

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators

Christopher Coyne, Matt E. Ryan | Jul 01, 2009
This article reviews and analyzes the foreign aid delivered to the world’s top living dictators. Also considered is why aid to these dictators fails to generate change for the better. At least rhetorically, the governments of developed countries provide aid to poor countries to facilitate development and movement toward liberal institutions that protect basic rights. Despite these good intentions, aid has failed to generate sustainable change in the countries that the world’s worst dictators rule.

WORKING PAPERS

The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter? image

The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter?

This paper investigates the political economy of FEMA’s post-9/11 merger with the Department of Homeland Security.

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators - Working Paper image

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators - Working Paper

Christopher Coyne, Matt E. Ryan | Sep 2008
Despite rhetoric supporting liberal values and institutions, the governments of developed countries provide continued development and military assistance to the world's worst dictators. 

The “New” Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Foreign Intervention image

The “New” Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Foreign Intervention

Christopher Coyne | Aug 2008
The fatal conceit is the assumption the world can be shaped according to human desires.  With the collapse of socialism, central planning has been discredited as a viable means of economic organization.  However, the fatal conceit of central planning continues through foreign interventions in the form of foreign aid and foreign military interventions.