Peter T. Leeson
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- PhD Economics George Mason University
- Bachelors Economics Hillsdale College
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Published Works
- Institutional Stickiness and the New Development Economics (2008) (499)
- An‐arrgh‐chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization (2007) (324)
- Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse (2007) (317)
- Economic Freedom of the World: 2007 Annual Report (2007) (303)
- Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis (2006) (257)
- Cooperation and conflict : Evidence on self- enforcing arrangements and heterogeneous groups (2006) (175)
- Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation (2008) (172)
- The Plight of Underdeveloped Countries (2004) (166)
- Two-Tiered Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (2009) (159)
- Robust political economy (2006) (155)
- The Democratic Domino Theory: An Empirical Investigation (2009) (152)
- Social Distance and Self‐Enforcing Exchange (2008) (152)
- Trading with Bandits (2007) (147)
- Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy (2005) (143)
- The Laws of Lawlessness (2009) (142)
- The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina (2007) (119)
- Weathering Corruption (2008) (117)
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (2009) (111)
- The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions (2013) (105)
- The New Comparative Political Economy (2005) (100)
- Government, clubs, and constitutions (2011) (96)
- Efficient anarchy (2007) (95)
- The Use of Knowledge in Natural-Disaster Relief Management (2006) (92)
- Endogenizing fractionalization (2005) (87)
- Read All About it! Understanding the Role of Media in Economic Development (2004) (85)
- Organizing Crime (2012) (83)
- The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract (2009) (80)
- Quasimarket failure (2011) (73)
- Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best (2009) (70)
- Gypsy law (2013) (66)
- Wealth-destroying private property rights (2018) (66)
- How Important is State Enforcement for Trade (2008) (65)
- Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think (2014) (64)
- Ordeals (2012) (64)
- An Austrian Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations (2011) (63)
- The Economic Role of the State (2015) (61)
- "God Damn": The Law and Economics of Monastic Malediction (2014) (59)
- Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change and Reinforcement (2009) (59)
- THE ECONOMICS OF COMPUTER HACKING (2005) (57)
- Saving government failure theory from itself: recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective (2007) (56)
- Criminal constitutions (2010) (51)
- Comparative Historical Political Economy (2009) (50)
- Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices (2010) (48)
- Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution (2010) (47)
- Media, Development, and Institutional Change (2009) (44)
- HUMAN SACRIFICE (2013) (44)
- Was Mises right? (2006) (43)
- What Can Aid Do? (2009) (42)
- Trial by Battle (2011) (42)
- Escaping Poverty: Foreign Aid, Private Property, and Economic Development (2008) (41)
- The Political Economy of FEMA: Did Reorganization Matter? (2008) (39)
- The Austrian School of Economics, 1950-2000 (2002) (36)
- Manipulating the Media (2005) (36)
- An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition (2012) (35)
- Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation (2006) (35)
- Two Cheers for Capitalism? (2010) (33)
- Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: International Labor Standards and Comparative Development (2007) (32)
- Is Government Inevitable? Comment on Holcombe's Analysis (2005) (32)
- Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order (2008) (32)
- Hate Groups and Hate Crime (2011) (31)
- Vermin Trials (2013) (31)
- An economic analysis of Magna Carta (2016) (30)
- Witch Trials (2018) (30)
- Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists (2019) (28)
- Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation (2007) (26)
- Hayek, Arrow, and the Problems of Democratic Decision-Making (2002) (26)
- Comparing Apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the Remaining Post-Socialist World (2006) (25)
- An ‘Austrian’ Perspective on Public Choice (2003) (25)
- High Priests and Lowly Philosophers: The Battle for the Soul of Economics (2006) (25)
- Still impossible after all these years: Reply to Caplan (2005) (24)
- Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law (2014) (24)
- Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle (2015) (24)
- Flirting with Disaster The Inherent Problems with FEMA (2006) (23)
- Externality and COVID‐19 (2021) (23)
- Billionaires (2012) (23)
- The reformers’ dilemma: media, policy ownership, and reform (2007) (23)
- Earw(h)ig: I Can't Hear You Because Your Ideas are Old (2014) (22)
- Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy (2012) (22)
- Is Government Inevitable (2006) (21)
- Conflict-Inhibiting Norms (2012) (19)
- Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence (2007) (19)
- Government intervention and the structure of social capital (2008) (19)
- Was privateering plunder efficient (2011) (18)
- The Costs of Conflict (2011) (18)
- Hayek vs. The Neoclassicists: Lessons from the Socialist Calculation Debate (2005) (18)
- The Invisible Hook: The Law and Economics of Pirate Tolerance (2008) (17)
- Costly price discrimination (2008) (17)
- Is the Transition to the Market Too Important to Be Left to the Market? (2003) (17)
- Racial Fractionalization and School Performance (2010) (17)
- Rationality, Pirates, and The Law: A Retrospective (2010) (17)
- Kornai goes to Kenya (2020) (17)
- The Economic Effects of International Labor Mobility (2015) (17)
- Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy (2005) (16)
- Do we need behavioral economics to explain law? (2019) (16)
- Public choice and public health (2021) (15)
- Regulating quack medicine (2020) (13)
- Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics (2003) (13)
- Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error (2006) (13)
- Superstition and Self-Governance (2015) (13)
- Anarchy Unbound: How Much Order Can Spontaneous Order Create? (2010) (12)
- Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity (2007) (12)
- Celestial Anarchy: A Threat to Outer Space Commerce? (2014) (12)
- Oracles (2014) (12)
- Wife Sales (2014) (12)
- The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker (2012) (10)
- The Many Faces of the Market (2004) (10)
- A Note on the Market Provision of National Defense (2014) (10)
- Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) (2020) (10)
- Takings (2010) (9)
- Who's to Protect Cyberspace? (2005) (9)
- Contracts Without Government (2005) (9)
- The Invisible Hook (2009) (9)
- How much benevolence is benevolent enough? (2006) (8)
- The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek's Political Economy (2008) (8)
- The Evolution of Economics: Where We are and How We Got Here (2008) (8)
- Socialism: Still impossible after all these years (2005) (8)
- Testing rational choice theories of institutional change (2018) (8)
- Chapter 2 : The Spread of Global Economic Freedom (2007) (8)
- We're All Austrians Now: Janos Kornai and the Austrian School of Economics (2009) (7)
- One More Time with Feeling: The Law Merchant, Arbitration, and International Trade (2006) (7)
- Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules (2011) (6)
- Somalia : Understanding the Feasible Institutions (2009) (6)
- Poking Hobbes in the Eye: A Plea for Mechanism in Anarchist History (2012) (5)
- Contra-Whig History of Economic Ideas and the Problem of the Endogenous Past (2010) (5)
- WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird (2017) (5)
- Opportunism and Organization Under the Black Flag (2011) (5)
- Prenups (2016) (5)
- By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economicskornai's (2008) (5)
- Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution (2017) (5)
- Media as a Mechanism of Institutional Change (2007) (5)
- Polycentrism and Gargantua (2010) (5)
- The Impact of FEMA on U.S. Corruption: Implications for Policy (2007) (4)
- Postwar Heterodox Economics (2007) (4)
- Do Contracts Require Formal Enforcement (2005) (4)
- Land Grab: Takings, the Market Process, and Regime Uncertainty (2007) (4)
- Race, politics, and punishment (2011) (4)
- Market-Provided National Defense: Reply to Newhard (2016) (4)
- Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules: WISDOM, ALTERABILITY, AND SOCIAL RULES (2012) (3)
- Social Cooperation and the Apparent Tension between Personal and Impersonal Exchange (2006) (3)
- Who Protects Cyberspace (2004) (3)
- The Legacy of Ludwig von Mises (2006) (3)
- Celestial Anarchy (2014) (3)
- Sassywood q (2012) (3)
- Introduction: The Economist as System Builder: Ludwig Von Mises and the Architect of Economic Science and Political Economy (2006) (3)
- Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice (2007) (3)
- How Do Rulers Choose? Dual Domains of Discretion in Political Decision Making (2008) (2)
- The Impact of FEMA Reorganization: Implications for Policy (2009) (2)
- The Reformers’ Dilemma (2009) (2)
- One rationality to rule them all (2020) (2)
- Public Choice and Socialism (2003) (2)
- A Normal Market (2022) (2)
- They are coming (2007) (2)
- Homo Economicus Lives: Some Implications for Humanitarian Assistance (2014) (2)
- Introduction: 'The Economic Role of the State' (2015) (2)
- The Political Economy of Peter Boettke (2010) (2)
- 7. Equal Pay for Equal Prey: The Economics of Pirate Tolerance (2009) (1)
- The Unimportance of Spending: How Fractionalization Affects School Performance (2010) (1)
- Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul (2012) (1)
- The ( Lack of ) Impact of Government Land Titling : Case Study Evidence from Rural Peru (2011) (1)
- Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective (2020) (1)
- The golden age of mercenaries (2021) (1)
- Inside the Black Box: Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation (2009) (1)
- What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis (2011) (1)
- The Big Picture: Media, Development, and Institutional Change (2009) (1)
- Acting Locally--The Work of Leicester Urban Studies Centre. (1985) (1)
- Anarchy Unbound: Anarchy Unbound (2014) (1)
- Cultural codes: An economic analysis (2012) (1)
- Anarchy Unbound: Better Off Stateless* (2014) (1)
- Global Prosperity Initiative Working paper 27 Was Mises Right ? Philosophical Progress and the Methodology of Economic Science (2004) (1)
- JOI volume 18 issue 5 Cover and Front matter (2022) (0)
- Book reviewThe Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid, C.C. Gibson, K. Andersson, E. Ostrom, S. Shivakumar, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2005), 264 + xxi pp., index, $35.00, ISBN: 0-19-927884-9 (2008) (0)
- Mark G. Hanna. Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740. (2017) (0)
- The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions (2023) (0)
- The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano (2012) (0)
- The Determinants of Media Effectiveness (2009) (0)
- The Destruction of Self-Help by State Intervention (2008) (0)
- Piracy, Old Maritime (2019) (0)
- Media (2019) (0)
- C.C. Gibson, K. Andersson, E. Ostrom and S. Shivakumar, The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid , Oxford University Press, Oxford (2005) ISBN 0-19-927884-9 264Â +Â xxi pp., index, $35.00 (2008) (0)
- Better Together: Restoring the American Community (2005) (0)
- WTF?! : An Economic Tour of the Weird Ed. 1 (2017) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2011) (0)
- The Domino Theory : An Empirical Investigation * (2007) (0)
- Epilogue: Omnipresent Economics (2009) (0)
- Regulating quack medicine (2019) (0)
- Presumptions in Political Economy: Alternative Approaches for Assessing the Economic Role of the State (2014) (0)
- Policy Makers Must Remember That Incentives Matter (2000) (0)
- 6. Pressing Pegleg: The Economics of Pirate Conscription (2009) (0)
- Can’t We All Just Get Along? Fractionalization, Institutions and Economic Consequences (2011) (0)
- Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman, Too Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004) 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0 (2005) (0)
- American panhandlers (2022) (0)
- Kornai goes to Kenya (2020) (0)
- The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano (2012) (0)
- Alexander J. Field (2001) Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN0-472-11224-4. x-373 pp. (2005) (0)
- A Future for Thinking about Self-Governance* (2014) (0)
- Editorial announcement (1993) (0)
- 1 Conflict-Inhibiting Norms * (2010) (0)
- Anarchy Unbound: An Argument for Anarchy in LDCs* (2014) (0)
- Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution (2015) (0)
- Case Studies of Media, Institutions, and the Reformers’ Dilemma (2009) (0)
- Trading with the Dead (2021) (0)
- Anarchy (2019) (0)
- An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition (2012) (0)
- 1 The Costs of Conflict * (2015) (0)
- Does Globalization Require Global Government (2005) (0)
- Conclusion – Implications for Policy (2009) (0)
- Do we need behavioral economics to explain law? (2017) (0)
- Anarchy Unbound: Social Distance and Self-Enforcing Exchange* (2014) (0)
- Gypsy law (2012) (0)
- The Economics of “Certaine Lewd and Ill-Disposed Persons”: Comment on Leeson (2009) (0)
- Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics (2017) (0)
- Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: anarchic context and the private enforcement of law (2013) (0)
- Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States (2009) (0)
- A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption” ( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008): Different Data Produce Different Results (2021) (0)
- Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society by Gary Chartier (review) (2014) (0)
- Anarchy Unbound: Efficient Plunder* (2014) (0)
- Contributors (2006) (0)
- Editorial announcement (1993) (0)
- Hunting for Unicorns (2020) (0)
- Investment Advice and the Personnel Practitioner: Benefits and Dangers (1984) (0)
- Postscript: You Can’t Keep a Sea Dog Down: The Fall and Rise of Piracy (2009) (0)
- Book reviewToo Big To Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, Gary H. Stern, Ron J. Feldman, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC (2004), 230 + xiii pp., index, US$ 32.95, ISBN 0-8157-8152-0 (2005) (0)
- Anarchy Unbound: Pirates’ Private Order* (2014) (0)
- Ignorant and Apathetic: The Effect of Media Freedom on Political Knowledge and Participation (2005) (0)
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