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According to Wikipedia, Bruce L. Benson is an American academic economist who is recognized as an authority on law and economics and a major exponent of anarcho-capitalist legal theory. He is chair of the department of economics, DeVoe L. Moore Professor, distinguished research professor and courtesy professor of law at Florida State University and the recipient of the 2006 Adam Smith Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute and has recently been a Fulbright Senior Specialist in the Czech Republic, visiting professor at the university de Paris Pantheonon Assas, a Property-and-Environment-Research-Center Julian Simon Fellow, and visiting research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.

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Bruce L. Benson's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Spontaneous Evolution of Commercial Law (1989) (361)
Integration of Spatial Markets (1990) (205)
Is property crime caused by drug use or by drug enforcement policy (1992) (156)
The enterprise of law : justice without the state (1990) (144)
BEER TAXATION AND ALCOHOL-RELATED TRAFFIC FATALITIES (1999) (138)
Police bureaucracies, their incentives, and the war on drugs (1995) (131)
To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice (1998) (111)
The Market for Force (2007) (103)
Deterrence and Public Policy: Trade-Offs in the Allocation of Police Resources 35 35 We wish to than (1998) (96)
Estimating Deterrence Effects: A Public Choice Perspective on the Economics of Crime Literature (1994) (91)
Are Public Goods Really Common Pools? Considerations of the Evolution of Policing and Highways in England (1994) (86)
Relationship Between Illicit Drug Enforcement Policy And Property Crimes (1991) (84)
Rent Seeking from a Property Rights Perspective (1984) (80)
The economic anatomy of a drug war : criminal justice in the commons (1995) (79)
The Enterprise of Law (1990) (74)
Deterring drunk driving fatalities: an economics of crime perspective 1 1 The authors wish to thank (1999) (71)
Handbook on the Economics of Crime (2012) (71)
An Alternative View of Pricing in Retail Food Markets (1985) (69)
Enforcement of Private Property Rights in Primitive Societies : Law without Government by (1999) (67)
The Lagged Impact of State and Local Taxes on Economic Activity and Political Behavior (1986) (65)
Entrepreneurial Police and Drug Enforcement Policy (2000) (64)
Spatial Competition In Illicit Drug Markets: The Consequences Of Increased Drug Law Enforcement (1993) (63)
An Economic Theory of the Evolution of Governance and the Emergence of the State (1999) (60)
Customary law as a social contract: International commercial law (1992) (57)
Legal Evolution in Primitive Societies (1988) (54)
Loschian Competition under Alternative Demand Conditions (1980) (53)
The Political Economy of Governmental Corruption: The Logic of Underground Government (1985) (52)
To Arbitrate or To Litigate: That Is the Question (1999) (52)
Drug Enforcement and the Deterrence of Property Crime Among Local Jurisdictions (1994) (50)
Privately Produced General Deterrence* (2001) (49)
The Impact of Drug Enforcement on Crime: An Investigation of the Opportunity Cost of Police Resources (2001) (48)
Regulatory Disequilibrium and Inefficiency: The Case of Interstate Trucking (2002) (47)
An Economic Analysis of Recidivism among Drug Offenders (1993) (46)
An Exploration of the Impact of Modern Arbitration Statutes on the Development of Arbitration in the United States (1995) (46)
Public satisfaction with the South Korean Police: The effect of residential location in a rapidly industrializing nation (2005) (45)
An evolutionary contractarian view of primitive law: The institutions and incentives arising under customary Indian law (1991) (44)
Tariffs which lower price in the restricting country: An analysis of spatial markets (1983) (34)
The Mythology of Holdout as a Justification for Eminent Domain and Public Provision of Roads (2005) (33)
The impact of experience on prices and profits in experimental duopoly markets (1988) (32)
Corruption in law enforcement: one consequence of "The tragedy of the commons" arising with public allocation processes (1988) (32)
Pashtunwali—Law for the lawless, defense for the stateless (2014) (32)
Can police deter drunk driving? (2000) (30)
The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (2015) (30)
Alcohol and Rape: An Economics-of-Crime Perspective (2007) (27)
The impetus for recognizing private property and adopting ethical behavior in a market economy: Natural law, government law, or evolving self-interest (1993) (27)
The Evolution of Eminent Domain A Remedy for Market Failure or an Effort to Limit Government Power and Government Failure (2008) (27)
Understanding Bureaucratic Behavior: Implications from the Public Choice Literature* (1995) (24)
Escalating the War On Drugs: Causes and Unintended Consequences (2009) (24)
An Institutional Explanation for Corruption of Criminal Justice Officials (1988) (23)
Why Are Congressional Committees Dominated by "High-Demand" Legislators?: A Comment on Niskanen's View of Bureaucrats and Politicans (1981) (23)
The Market for Laws: An Economic Analysis of Legislation (1988) (23)
The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Justice in the Commons (2007) (22)
Geographic Price Interdependence and the Extent of Economic Markets (1990) (21)
Predatory Public Finance and the Origins of the War on Drugs (1996) (20)
The Evolution of Commercial Law (1996) (20)
Emerging from the Hobbesian jungle: Might takes and makes rights (1994) (20)
The Development Of Criminal Law Ans Its Enforcement: Public Interest Or Political Transfers? (1992) (20)
The occupations of regulators influence occupational regulation: evidence from the US private security industry (2015) (19)
The impact of provincial marketing boards on price relations and pricing dynamics in the North American slaughter hog market (1994) (18)
Tariffs and Quotas in a Spatial Duopoly (1984) (18)
Crime Control Through Private Enterprise (1998) (18)
The Allocation of Police (2010) (17)
Economic Freedom and the Evolution of Law (1998) (17)
Opportunities Forgone: The Unmeasurable Costs of Regulation (2004) (17)
Interest Groups and the Antitrust Paradox (1987) (16)
Reciprocal Exchange as the Basis for Recognition of Law : Examples from American History (1991) (15)
The Law Merchant (1996) (15)
Spatial economics: implications for food market response to retail price reporting (1985) (14)
On the Basing-Point System (1990) (14)
Rent seekers who demand government production: Bureaucratic output and the price of complements (1988) (13)
Reducing the harms of drug policy: an economic perspective. (1999) (13)
Third Thoughts on Contracting Out (1993) (12)
Knowledge, trust and recourse: imperfect substitutes as sources of assurance in emerging economies (2001) (12)
Increasing product variety and rising prices (1990) (12)
Tariffs and location specific income redistribution (1987) (12)
The Context of Drug Policy: An Economic Interpretation (1998) (12)
Spatial competition with free entry, Chamberlinian tangencies, and social efficiency (1984) (12)
Spatial Competition: Implications for Market Area Delineation in Antimerger Cases (1980) (11)
Implicit Taxes Collected by State Liquor Monopolies (2003) (11)
American antitrust laws in theory and in practice (1989) (11)
Regulation, more Regulation, Partial Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Disequilibrating Nature of a Rent-Seeking Society (2004) (11)
Intra-National Effects of a Countervailing Duty on the United States/Canadian Hog Market (1994) (10)
American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953–2006 (2011) (10)
Competition among Legal Institutions: Implications for the Evolution of Law (1995) (10)
Does private security affect crime?: a test using state regulations as instruments (2017) (9)
Rationalizing Drug Policy Under Federalism (2003) (9)
Conduct in spatial markets: An empirical analysis of spatial pricing behavior (1992) (9)
On the Ability of Spatial Competitors to Price Discriminate (1984) (8)
The Economics of Substance Abuse in Context: Can Economics Be Part of an Integrated Theory of Drug Use? (1998) (8)
The economic theory of regulation as an explanation of policies toward bank mergers and holding company acquisitions (1983) (8)
The Law Merchant’s Story: How Romantic is it? (2011) (8)
Arbitration in the Shadow of the Law (1997) (8)
The development and evolution of predatory-state institutions and organizations: beliefs, violence, conquest, coercion, and rent seeking (2020) (8)
REGULATORY TRANSFERS IN CANADIAN/AMERICAN AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF SUPPLY MANAGEMENT (1986) (8)
The Incentives to Organize and Demand Regulation: Two Ends against the Middle (1986) (7)
RESTITUTION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE (1999) (7)
Spatial Microeconomics: Implications for the Use of Concentration Ratios to Represent Monopoly Power (1979) (7)
Are Roads Public Goods, Club Goods, Private Goods, or Common Pools? (2017) (7)
To Serve and Protect (2020) (7)
On the Implications of Reporting Retail Food Prices over Extended Periods (1987) (7)
“High Demand” Legislative Committees and Bureaucratic Output (1983) (7)
An Experimental Investigation of Equilibria Impacts of Information (1988) (7)
Property rights : eminent domain and regulatory takings re-examined (2010) (6)
Further thoughts on rent-seeking, bureaucratic output, and the price of complements (1989) (6)
Do we Want the production of Prison Services to be more "Efficient"? (1991) (6)
Eminent Domain for Private Use (2010) (6)
It Takes Two Invisible Hands to Make a Market: Lex Mercatoria (Law Merchant) Always Emerges to Facilitate Emerging Market Activity (2010) (5)
Drug Trafficking Wars (2014) (5)
Jurisdictional Choice in International Trade: Implications for Lex Cybernatoria (2000) (5)
INTERSTATE TAX COMPETITION, INCENTIVES TO COLLUDE, AND FEDERAL INFLUENCES (1990) (5)
Polycentric Law Versus Monopolized Law : Implications from International Trade for the Potential Success of Emerging Markets (1999) (5)
Fiscal Competition in a Federal System (2001) (5)
Law and economics (2001) (5)
The Optimal Size and Number of Market Areas (1981) (5)
An explanation of intra-industry trade in identical commodities (1984) (5)
The Impact of Entry at a Distance on Market Demand (1980) (5)
Toxic Torts by Government (1993) (4)
Uncertainty, the Race for Property Rights and Rent Dissipation Due to Judicial Legislation in Us Tort Law (1996) (4)
Price Reporting in Experimental Markets (1987) (4)
Returning Justice to Its Private Roots (2001) (4)
The Evolution of Property Rights Systems (2015) (4)
Location Choice and Urban Growth in a Rent-Seeking Society (1988) (4)
Contractual nullification of economically-detrimental state-made laws (2006) (4)
Let's Focus on Victim Justice, Not Criminal Justice (2014) (4)
Regulation as a Barrier to Market Provision and to Innovation: The Case of Toll Roads and Steam Carriages in England (2015) (4)
ENDOGENOUS MORALITY (2002) (3)
A case study of selected factors of job satisfaction among Flint police officers (1980) (3)
Decriminalisation, Restitution and Privatisation (2012) (3)
Logrolling and high demand committee review (1983) (3)
The Impact of Provincial Marketing Boards on Pricing Dynamics in the North American Slaughter Hog Market (1992) (3)
How to Secede in Business Without Really Leaving: Evidence of the Substitution of Arbitration for Litigation (2017) (2)
On the Basing-Point System: Reply (1990) (2)
Emerging from the Hobbesian Jungle (2004) (2)
The institutional determinants of self-governance: a comment on Edward Stringham’s Private Governance (2018) (2)
THE WAR ON DRUGS: A PUBLIC BAD (2008) (2)
Chamberlin's Solution in a Spatial Market (1987) (2)
Causes and Consequences of Over-Criminalization * by (2014) (2)
Delineating Spatial Markets Using Multivariate Time Series (1995) (2)
Predatory Public Finance and the Evolution of the War on Drugs (2018) (2)
Economics of crime (2005) (2)
Do Holdout Problems Justify Compulsory Right-of-Way Purchase and Public Provision of Roads? (2006) (2)
Economic Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Math Gamer, the Anti-Policy Econometrician and the Narrative Political Economist (2009) (2)
The level of average production cost chosen by a multiplant spatial monopolist (1984) (2)
The Optimal Size and Number of Market Areas: Reply (1982) (1)
Handhelds and TSSA: Using Handheld Computers to Improve Productivity and Professional Practice in School Administration (2003) (1)
A Neo-Mengerian Examination of the Regulatory Process (2012) (1)
Economics of drug liberalization (2005) (1)
SPATIAL PRICE THEORY AND AN EFFICIENT CONGESTION TOLL ESTABLISHED BY THE FREE MARKET (1984) (1)
FREE MARKET CONGESTION TOLLS: A CORRECTION (1985) (1)
Private Sources of Trust and Recourse : Prerequisites for the Successful Emergence of Markets in Cyberspace (2000) (1)
A Multivariate Time Series Approach to Market Delineation and Pricing Dynamics in Spacial Competition (1992) (1)
Private Policing and Private Roads: A Coasian Approach to Drunk-Driving Policy (2007) (1)
Community Policing Works at Michigan State University (1993) (1)
The occupations of regulators influence occupational regulation: evidence from the US private security industry (2014) (1)
Spatial Price Theory and Market Delineation (1993) (1)
Conclusion: Instability and Inefficiency are the Inevitable Results of Government Planning and Regulatory Implementation (2010) (0)
Book Review: Drinkers, Drivers, and Bartenders: Balancing Private Choices and Public Accountability (2001) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
A theoretical analysis of regulatory policy : bank mergers and holding company acquisitions (1978) (0)
REGULATORY TRANSFERS IN CANADIAN/AMERICAN AGRICULTURE: (2003) (0)
ama-gi The Journal of the Hayek Society at the London School of Economics 2 Globalization Through Human Action or Human Design ? (0)
Peter T. Leeson: The invisible hook: the hidden economics of pirates (2010) (0)
Investing in medical device companies. (1993) (0)
Cost-effectiveness study of Montana secondary education (1975) (0)
The Economist's Role In Rationalizing Drug Policy (1996) (0)
Rent Seeking and Supply Management in Canadian Agriculture (2008) (0)
Preface: Background and Overview (2010) (0)
Privatization of Legal and Administrative Services (1998) (0)
Association Intra-National Effects of a Countervailing Duty on the United States / Canadian Hog Market Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Rent Seeking on the Legal Frontier (2018) (0)
The institutional determinants of self-governance: a comment on Edward Stringham’s Private Governance (2017) (0)
ESCALLATING THE WAR ON DRUGS: (2008) (0)
Customary commercial law, credibility, contracting, and credit in the high Middle Ages (2017) (0)
David Boaz (1997) Libertarianism: A Primer. (1997) (0)
Lack of Cooperation in law Enforcement: Public Good Free Riding or Common pool Under-Investment? (1991) (0)
Spatial competition with free entry, Chamberlinian tangencies, and social efficiency: A reevaluation (1989) (0)
The Rise and Fall of Non-Government Roads in the United Kingdom (2006) (0)
Customary Law (2021) (0)
Job Stressors, Frustrations, and Possible Solutions among Campus Police Chiefs (2006) (0)
Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights (2013) (0)
John R. Lott, Jr., More guns, less crime: Understanding crime and gun-control laws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x + 225 pages. $23.00 (cloth). (1999) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
The development and evolution of predatory-state institutions and organizations: beliefs, violence, conquest, coercion, and rent seeking (2019) (0)
ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND THE EVOLUTION OF LAW Wealth Seeking and the Evolution of Law (0)
Book reviews (1989) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
Book Review: Rationalizing Justice: The Political Economy of the Federal Courts (1992) (0)
Roger E. Meiners and Andrew P. Morriss (Eds), The Common Law and the Environment: Rethinking the Statutory Basis for Modern Environmental Law (2001) (0)
The Evolution of Law (2004) (0)
Property rights: Cooperation, conflict, and law, edited by Anderson, T. L. and McChesney, F. S. Princeton NJ, and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2003, x+398 pp., USD 29.95 (paper) (2004) (0)
Market Alternatives for Crime Control: Entrepreneurial Responses to Government Failure (1997) (0)

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