Benjamin Powell

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Benjamin Powell is affiliated with the following schools: George Mason University, University of Massachusetts, Texas Tech University, Suffolk University

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#1367

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#546

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Benjamin Powell's Degrees

PhD Economics George Mason University
Masters Economics George Mason University
Bachelors Economics University of Massachusetts

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin W. "Ben" Powell is the director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and professor of economics at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business. He is also a junior fellow at the Independent Institute and the South American editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.

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Benjamin Powell's Published Works

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Published Works

Somalia after state collapse: Chaos or improvement? (2008) (194)
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online (2008) (156)
Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy: A Survey (2009) (142)
Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth (2010) (136)
The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment (2011) (113)
Economic Freedom and Growth: The Case of the Celtic Tiger (2003) (108)
Making poor nations rich : entrepreneurship and the process of economic development (2008) (106)
Does immigration impact institutions? (2014) (83)
An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles (2008) (76)
Explaining Japan’s recession (2002) (69)
Sweatshops and third world living standards: Are the jobs worth the sweat? (2006) (60)
Does Mass Immigration Destroy Institutions? 1990s Israel As a Natural Experiment (2017) (53)
The political economy of the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021) (51)
The Determinants of Economic Freedom: A Survey (2018) (48)
Public choice and the economic analysis of anarchy: a survey (2009) (40)
Housing Supply and Affordability: Do Affordable Housing Mandates Work? (2004) (38)
State Development Planning: Did it Create an East Asian Miracle? (2005) (37)
Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship: A Panel Study of the United States (2013) (36)
The Economics of Inclusionary Zoning Reclaimed: How Effective are Price Controls? (2005) (31)
Does Development Aid Lead to Economic Freedom (2006) (31)
War and the Growth of Government (2015) (30)
Praise and Profits: Cultural and Institutional Determinants of Entrepreneurship (2012) (30)
In Reply To Sweatshop Sophistries (2006) (27)
Causes and barriers to increases in economic freedom (2015) (25)
Corruption, Crime and Economic Growth (2010) (24)
Dilemmas in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy (2013) (20)
The Economics of Housing Bubbles (2006) (20)
The economics of immigration : market-based approaches, social science, and public policy (2015) (19)
Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs: The Build-Up to the Harrison Act of 1914 (2015) (19)
Do Immigrants Import Terrorism? (2019) (18)
Cultural Baggage: Do Immigrants Import Corruption? (2019) (18)
Do Pessimistic Assumptions About Human Behavior Justify Government (2003) (17)
Cuban infant mortality and longevity: health care or repression? (2018) (14)
On the governance of “not being governed” (2012) (13)
Why Austrians should quit worrying and learn to love the lab (2010) (12)
Coyote ugly: the deadweight cost of rent seeking for immigration policy (2012) (12)
Sweatshop Working Conditions and Employee Welfare: Say It Ain’t Sew (2013) (12)
Sweatshop Regulation: Tradeoffs and Welfare Judgements (2018) (11)
Capital Theory and the Process of Inter-Temporal Coordination: The Austrian Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth (2014) (10)
Some Implications of Capital Heterogeneity (2010) (9)
The ‘minimal’ state reconsidered: governance on the margin (2019) (8)
Making sense of dictatorships and health outcomes (2020) (8)
Competition and Monopoly Power in Local Government: An Extension of Caplan (2001) (2004) (8)
Real Estate Continuing Education: Rent Seeking or Improvement in Service Quality? (2012) (8)
Meet the Old Sweatshops: Same as the New (2014) (8)
Taxing Development: The Law and Economics of Traffic Impact Fees (2006) (8)
The Global Spread of Think Tanks and Economic Freedom (2017) (7)
From Subsistence to Advanced Material Production (2015) (7)
Was Occupational Licensing Good for Minorities? A Critique of Marc Law and Mindy Marks (2012) (7)
Wretched Refuse? (2020) (7)
Nutritional Efficiency Wages and Unemployment: Where's the Beef? (2014) (4)
Solving the Misesian migration conundrum (2019) (4)
Development Aid and Economic Freedom: Are They Related? (2005) (4)
A Case Against Child Labor Prohibitions (2014) (4)
The Ethical and Economic Case Against Sweatshop Labor: A Critical Assessment (2011) (4)
Radical scholarship taking on the mainstream: Murray Rothbard’s contribution (2012) (4)
Affordable Housing in Monterey County: Analyzing the General Plan Update and Applied Development Economics Report (2004) (3)
Markets as Processes of Moral Discovery (2014) (3)
Capital Theory and the Process of Inter-Temporal Coordination: The Austrian Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth (2014) (3)
Economic Freedom and Prosperity (2018) (3)
Meet the Old Sweatshops (2014) (3)
Cuban longevity and infant mortality: health care or repression? A reply. (2018) (3)
Public Choice and Leviathan (2005) (3)
Does Immigration Impact Economic Freedom? (2014) (3)
Does Aid Cause Changes in Economic Freedom? (2022) (2)
Identity Crisis: The Misclassification of California Uber Drivers (2017) (2)
Causes and barriers to increases in economic freedom (2016) (2)
Does immigration impact institutions? (2015) (2)
Economics in Defense of Liberty: The Contribution of Murray Rothbard (2010) (1)
Simpler Evidence on Immigration and Institutions: An Assessment · Econ Journal Watch : migration, corruption, institutions (1)
Government Failure vs. the Market Process during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (1)
The economics of immigration: An Austrian contribution (2016) (1)
Measuring Economic Freedom during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (1)
Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin (eds.): Democracy, Freedom, and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach (2008) (1)
A Taste of Protectionism: Coca-Cola in the Classroom (2007) (1)
Out of Poverty (2014) (1)
Economic and Political Change after Crisis : Prospects for government, liberty and the rule of law (2016) (1)
'Affordable' Housing Laws Make Homes More Expensive (2003) (1)
The Environment of Productive Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific Rim (2007) (1)
A Brief Case for Open Borders in Australia (2016) (1)
Global Prosperity Initiative Working Paper 25 State Development Planning : Did it Create an Asian Miracle ? (2003) (1)
Economic Freedom and Mass Migration: Evidence from Israel (2017) (1)
The Transition Economist: From Athlete to Doctoral Mentor (2010) (1)
Out of Poverty: Preface (2014) (0)
On the governance of “not being governed” (2010) (0)
Coyote ugly: the deadweight cost of rent seeking for immigration policy (2010) (0)
Analyzing the Selection (2017) (0)
Delegitimizing institutional possibilities for Somalia in a constrained world (2012) (0)
Language of Poetry (2017) (0)
Drama: Structure and Performing (2018) (0)
Out of Poverty: The Process of Economic Development (2014) (0)
Technique and Solo Performance of Drama (2017) (0)
Structure of Poetry (2017) (0)
Immigration’s Impact on Culture (2020) (0)
Don’t Cry for Me, Kathie Lee (2014) (0)
Immigration’s Impact on Economic Institutions (2020) (0)
Sweatshop Regulation: Tradeoffs and Welfare Judgements (2016) (0)
Out of Poverty: Introduction (2014) (0)
US state‐level economic freedom during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2023) (0)
The U.S. Economy: The New Normal and an Unsustainable Future (2016) (0)
Voice Development for Oral Interpretation (2017) (0)
A History of Sweatshops, 1780–2010 (2014) (0)
Anti-Sweatshop Activism and the Safety-Employment Tradeoff: Evidence from Bangladesh's Rana Plaza Disaster (2023) (0)
A Beginning and an End (2017) (0)
Out of Poverty: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement (2014) (0)
U.S. State-Level Economic Freedom During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Economic Calculation and the Productivity of Investment (2017) (0)
Sweatshop Working Conditions and Employee Welfare: Say It Ain’t Sew (2012) (0)
Housing (2021) (0)
Out of Poverty: About the Author (2014) (0)
St. Paddy's Day Lesson for Arizona (2007) (0)
Out of Poverty: Health, Safety, and Working Conditions Laws (2014) (0)
Out of Poverty: The Economics of Sweatshop Wage Determination (2014) (0)
Solving the Misesian migration conundrum (2019) (0)
Out of Poverty: Is It Ethical to Buy Sweatshop Products? (2014) (0)
Use of the Body in Oral Interpretation (2017) (0)
Prose: Style, Types, Nonfiction (2017) (0)
AU TH OR C OP Y Corruption and the Institutional Environment for Growth (2010) (0)
What Good Can Activists Do (2014) (0)
The ‘minimal’ state reconsidered: governance on the margin (2017) (0)
Out of Poverty: Save the Children? (2014) (0)
Real Estate Continuing Education: Rent Seeking or Improvement in Service Quality? (2011) (0)
The economics of immigration: An Austrian contribution (2016) (0)
Immigration’s Impact on Corruption (2020) (0)
Globalization and Its Enemies (2008) (0)
Prose: Narration (2018) (0)

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