 | An Entrepreneurial Theory of Social and Cultural Change
August 17, 2009 Books Christopher Coyne,
Peter Boettke |
| This chapter contends that the entrepreneur is the agent of social and cultural change. The authors consider the entrepreneur in three settings: market, non-market and political. Their purpose is to understand how entrepreneurs create anew or shift existing focal points and how they make these changes salient.
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 | Book Review of 'Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World' by Ashraf Ghani and Claire Lockhart
July 11, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne |
| A book review of Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart.
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| With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? Aiding the World's Worst Dictators
July 1, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne,
Matt E. Ryan |
| 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.
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| Unintended Consequences: How Regulation Changes Behaviour
July 1, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne |
| This article discusses unintended consequences in relation to regulations and automobile safety laws.
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| Best Case, Worst Case, and the Golden Mean in Political Economy: An Introduction to a Symposium on Tim Besley's 'Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government.'
June 15, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne,
Peter Boettke |
| This issue of the Review of Austian Economics assembles a group of leading public choice scholars to respond to Besley’s challenging book. The responses all reflect a different slice of the argument on why the selection mechanism in politics might not work to produce the motivational and competence characteristics desired in politicians to get “good government.”
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| The Politics and Economics of Global Interventionism: A Review Essay of 'Opposing the Crusader State'
June 15, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne |
| This essay aims to provide the reader with an overview of the main contents of Opposing the Crusader State and discusses some of the central themes in the writings of Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek and Murray Rothbard on the topics of U.S. foreign policy, global interventionism, and the alternative of noninterventionism.
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| Context Matters: Institutions and Entrepreneurship
April 6, 2009 Books Christopher Coyne,
Peter Boettke |
| This survey explores the important connection between institutions and entrepreneurship. Particular emphasis is placed on entrepreneurship within several different institutional settings -- private for-profit, private nonprofit, and political -- as well as the impact of entrepreneurship on institutions. This monograph concludes by discussing the implications for future research on the topic.
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 | The Impact of FEMA Reorganization: Implications for Policy
February 26, 2009 Mercatus Policy Series Christopher Coyne,
Peter Leeson,
Russell Sobel |
| This policy comment discusses the impact and implications of FEMA’s move to DHS.
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| The Problem of Credible Commitment in Reconstruction
February 23, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne,
Peter Boettke |
| Reconstruction involves military occupation with the aim of rebuilding and reforming both formal and informal institutions along liberal democratic lines. This paper contends that successful reconstructions require mechanisms that make reforms credible over the long run. In the absence of a signal of sustained credible commitment, institutional reforms will not be trusted by the populace resulting in the failure of the broader reconstruction.
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| Book Review of The Economics of Transparency in Politics, edited by Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronlad Wintrobe
January 15, 2009 Journal Articles Christopher Coyne |
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