Peter Leeson
- Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University
Peter T. Leeson is Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for the Advanced Study of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and North American Editor of Public Choice. Formerly, Leeson was Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Visiting Fellow in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University, and F. A. Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics. According to RePEc, Leeson is among the top young economists in the world. For links to his research, press coverage, and CV visit his website: www.peterleeson.com.
Publications & Appearances
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A normal market
Historical markets were often ones of symmetric but inaccurate information: buyers and sellers had similar information, but
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American pandhandlers
Urban panhandling and its regulation are global phenomena. Panhandling regulation, like other regulation, is likely to be
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Hobo Economicus
The central implication of maximising behaviour amid competition is that rates of return tend toward equality. We test that
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Trading with the Dead
Late medieval Englishmen provided for their wellbeing in the hereafter by purchasing intercession for their souls. They traded
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A Reply to a Replication of “Weathering Corruption” ( Journal of Law and Economics, 2008)
Cordis and Milyo replicate our study, which found a positive relationship between FEMA-provided disaster relief and public
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The golden age of mercenaries
Between the mid-thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries, Italian city-states abandoned citizen militaries for militaries composed
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Public choice and public health
Public choice scholars have attended only modestly to issues in public health. We expect that to change rapidly given the Covid
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Externality and COVID‐19
Negative infectious disease externalities are less prevalent in the absence of government intervention and less costly to
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Hunting for Unicorns
This Handbook offers an authoritative, up-to-date introduction to the rich scholarly conversation about anarchy—about the
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Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane?
Anarcho-capitalists argue that private governance institutions could profitably replace government and often appeal to medieval