Peter T. Leeson, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2005 George Mason University, Washington, DC 
Area:
General Economics

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Year Citation  Score
2020 Leeson PT. Economics is not statistics (and vice versa) Journal of Institutional Economics. 16: 423-425. DOI: 10.1017/S174413742000003X  0.404
2020 Leeson PT. Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists Journal of Institutional Economics. 16: 145-150. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137419000109  0.42
2020 Leeson PT, Harris C, Myers A. Kornai goes to Kenya Public Choice. 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-020-00782-W  0.406
2020 Leeson PT, King MS, Fegley TJ. Regulating quack medicine Public Choice. 182: 273-286. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-019-00656-W  0.309
2019 Leeson PT. Do we need behavioral economics to explain law European Journal of Law and Economics. 48: 29-42. DOI: 10.1007/S10657-017-9573-4  0.395
2018 Leeson PT, Harris C. Testing rational choice theories of institutional change Rationality and Society. 30: 420-431. DOI: 10.1177/1043463118803689  0.314
2018 Leeson PT, Harris C. Wealth-destroying private property rights World Development. 107: 1-9. DOI: 10.1016/J.Worlddev.2018.02.013  0.377
2016 Leeson PT, Suarez PA. An economic analysis of Magna Carta International Review of Law and Economics. 47: 40-46. DOI: 10.1016/J.Irle.2016.05.001  0.365
2016 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ, Duncan TK. Market-provided national defense: Reply to Newhard Journal of Private Enterprise. 31: 83-86.  0.786
2015 Leeson PT, Suarez PA. Superstition and self-governance Advances in Austrian Economics. 19: 47-66. DOI: 10.1108/S1529-213420150000019003  0.337
2015 Allen DW, Leeson PT. Institutionally constrained technology adoption: Resolving the longbow puzzle Journal of Law and Economics. 58: 683-715. DOI: 10.1086/684231  0.342
2014 Leeson PT. "God damn": The law and economics of monastic malediction Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 30: 193-216. DOI: 10.1093/Jleo/Ews025  0.318
2014 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Earw(h)ig: I can't hear you because your ideas are old Cambridge Journal of Economics. 38: 531-544. DOI: 10.1093/Cje/Bes075  0.788
2014 Leeson PT. Pirates, prisoners, and preliterates: Anarchic context and the private enforcement of law European Journal of Law and Economics. 37: 365-379. DOI: 10.1007/S10657-013-9424-X  0.409
2014 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ, Duncan TK. A note on the market provision of national defense Journal of Private Enterprise. 29: 51-55.  0.763
2013 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Comparative historical political economy Journal of Institutional Economics. 9: 285-301. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.1438363  0.784
2013 Dutta N, Leeson PT, Williamson CR. The Amplification Effect: Foreign Aid's Impact on Political Institutions Kyklos. 66: 208-228. DOI: 10.1111/Kykl.12018  0.449
2012 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ. Wisdom, alterability, and social rules Managerial and Decision Economics. 33: 441-451. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.1770684  0.562
2012 Leeson PT. Poking Hobbes in the eye: A plea for mechanism in anarchist history Common Knowledge. 18: 541-546. DOI: 10.1215/0961754X-1630460  0.399
2012 Callahan G, Leeson PT. Chicken Soup for the Out-of-Step Scholar's Soul American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 71: 1157-1168. DOI: 10.1111/J.1536-7150.2012.00858.X  0.358
2012 Thomas DW, Leeson PT. The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. 1: 84-95. DOI: 10.1108/20452101211208371  0.366
2012 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ. Conflict-Inhibiting Norms The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195392777.013.0033  0.563
2012 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ. Sassywood Journal of Comparative Economics. 40: 608-620. DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2012.02.002  0.461
2012 Leeson PT, Sobel RS, Dean AM. Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy Economics Letters. 114: 139-141. DOI: 10.1016/J.Econlet.2011.09.011  0.343
2012 Leeson PT. The irrelevance of normative considerations for founding an Austrian law and economics: Reply to Marciano Review of Austrian Economics. 25: 355-357. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-012-0186-4  0.429
2012 Leeson PT. An Austrian approach to law and economics, with special reference to superstition Review of Austrian Economics. 25: 185-198. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-012-0179-3  0.456
2012 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ. Wisdom, Alterability, and Social Rules: WISDOM, ALTERABILITY, AND SOCIAL RULES Managerial and Decision Economics. 33: 441-451. DOI: 10.1002/Mde.2551  0.531
2012 Leeson PT, Smith DJ, Snow NA. Hooligans Revue D'Economie Politique. 122: 213-231.  0.732
2011 Leeson PT. Trial by Battle Journal of Legal Analysis. 3: 341-375. DOI: 10.1093/Jla/3.1.341  0.318
2011 Leeson PT. Opportunism and Organization under the Black Flag Organizational Dynamics. 40: 34-42. DOI: 10.1016/J.Orgdyn.2010.10.006  0.328
2011 Leeson PT. Government, clubs, and constitutions Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 80: 301-308. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2011.05.006  0.41
2011 Leeson PT, Nowrasteh A. Was privateering plunder efficient? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 79: 303-317. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2011.02.009  0.35
2011 Ryan ME, Leeson PT. Hate groups and hate crime International Review of Law and Economics. 31: 256-262. DOI: 10.1016/J.Irle.2011.08.004  0.322
2011 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Quasimarket failure Public Choice. 149: 209-224. DOI: 10.1007/s11127-011-9833-8  0.665
2011 Leeson PT, Sobel RS. Race, politics, and punishment European Journal of Law and Economics. 31: 265-285. DOI: 10.1007/S10657-011-9228-9  0.389
2011 Skarbek DB, Leeson PT. What aid can't do: Reply to Ranis Cato Journal. 31: 83-86.  0.665
2010 Leeson PT, Skarbek DB. Criminal constitutions Global Crime. 11: 279-297. DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2010.490632  0.727
2010 Leeson PT. Pirational choice: The economics of infamous pirate practices Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 76: 497-510. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2010.08.015  0.364
2009 Leeson PT, Williamson CR. Anarchy and Development: An Application of the Theory of Second Best The Law and Development Review. 2: 77-96. DOI: 10.2202/1943-3867.1032  0.43
2009 Skarbek DB, Leeson PT. What Can Aid Do Cato Journal. 29: 391-397. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.2261325  0.745
2009 Leeson PT, Dean AM. The democratic domino theory: An empirical investigation American Journal of Political Science. 53: 533-551. DOI: 10.1111/J.1540-5907.2009.00385.X  0.368
2009 Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Media as a mechanism of institutional change and reinforcement Kyklos. 62: 1-14. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6435.2009.00421.X  0.552
2009 Leeson PT. The laws of lawlessness Journal of Legal Studies. 38: 471-503. DOI: 10.1086/592003  0.391
2009 Leeson PT, Boettke PJ. Two-tiered entrepreneurship and economic development International Review of Law and Economics. 29: 252-259. DOI: 10.1016/J.Irle.2009.02.005  0.691
2009 Leeson PT. Scott Gehlbach: Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States Public Choice. 141: 523-525. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-009-9458-3  0.365
2009 Leeson PT. The calculus of piratical consent: The myth of the myth of social contract Public Choice. 139: 443-459. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-009-9403-5  0.352
2009 Leeson PT. The invisible hook: The hidden economics of pirates The Invisible Hook: the Hidden Economics of Pirates. 1-271.  0.308
2009 Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Media, development, and institutional change Media, Development, and Institutional Change 0.559
2009 Skarbek DB, Leeson PT. What can aid do? Cato Journal. 29: 391-397.  0.675
2008 Leeson PT. Media freedom, political knowledge, and participation Journal of Economic Perspectives. 22: 155-169. DOI: 10.1257/Jep.22.2.155  0.422
2008 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Institutional stickiness and the new development economics American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 67: 331-358. DOI: 10.1111/J.1536-7150.2008.00573.X  0.751
2008 Leeson PT. How important is state enforcement for trade? American Law and Economics Review. 10: 61-89. DOI: 10.1093/Aler/Ahn003  0.399
2008 Leeson PT. Social distance and self-enforcing exchange Journal of Legal Studies. 37: 166-188. DOI: 10.1086/588262  0.324
2008 Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. How do rulers choose? Dual domains of discretion in political decision making Journal of Economic Issues. 42: 727-744. DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2008.11507176  0.562
2008 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. The continuing relevance of F.A. Hayek's political economy Advances in Austrian Economics. 11: 79-98. DOI: 10.1016/S1529-2134(08)11005-5  0.75
2008 Leeson PT. 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 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 66. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2006.11.003  0.333
2008 Leeson PT, Sobel RS. Costly price discrimination Economics Letters. 99: 206-208. DOI: 10.1016/J.Econlet.2007.06.030  0.321
2008 Carilli AM, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Government intervention and the structure of social capital Review of Austrian Economics. 21: 209-218. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-007-0035-Z  0.59
2008 Leeson PT. Coordination without command: Stretching the scope of spontaneous order Public Choice. 135: 67-78. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-007-9246-X  0.324
2008 Leeson PT. Escaping poverty:Foreign aid private property and economic development Journal of Private Enterprise. 23: 39-64.  0.34
2007 Sobel RS, Leeson PT. The use of knowledge in natural-disaster relief management Independent Review. 11: 519-532. DOI: 10.4337/9781849806541.00010  0.326
2007 Leeson PT. An-arrgh-chy: The law and economics of pirate organization Journal of Political Economy. 115: 1049-1094. DOI: 10.1086/526403  0.403
2007 Leeson PT. Trading with bandits Journal of Law and Economics. 50: 303-322. DOI: 10.1086/511320  0.359
2007 Leeson PT. Balkanization and assimilation: Examining the effects of state-created homogeneity Review of Social Economy. 65: 141-164. DOI: 10.1080/00346760600709960  0.323
2007 Leeson PT. Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse Journal of Comparative Economics. 35: 689-710. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jce.2007.10.001  0.46
2007 Hall JC, Leeson PT. Good for the goose, bad for the gander: International labor standards and comparative development Journal of Labor Research. 28: 658-676. DOI: 10.1007/S12122-007-9017-Y  0.381
2007 Leeson PT. Edward P. Stringham, ed., Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice Public Choice. 133: 253-256. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-007-9166-9  0.384
2007 Leeson PT. Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence Public Choice. 130: 245-247. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-006-9089-X  0.328
2007 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ. The reformers' dilemma: Media, policy ownership, and reform European Journal of Law and Economics. 23: 237-250. DOI: 10.1007/S10657-007-9013-Y  0.622
2007 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Saving government failure theory from itself: Recasting political economy from an Austrian perspective Constitutional Political Economy. 18: 127-143. DOI: 10.1007/S10602-007-9017-1  0.779
2007 Boettke PJ, Leeson PT. Postwar Heterodox Economics: The Austrian School of Economics: 1950-2000 A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. 445-453. DOI: 10.1002/9780470999059.ch28  0.665
2007 Boettke P, Chamlee-Wright E, Gordon P, Ikeda S, Leeson PT, Sobel R. The political, economic, and social aspects of Katrina Southern Economic Journal. 74: 363-376.  0.35
2006 Leeson PT, Trumbull WN. Comparing apples: Normalcy, Russia, and the remaining post-socialist world Post-Soviet Affairs. 22: 225-248. DOI: 10.2747/1060-586X.22.3.225  0.384
2006 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. Man as Machine: The Plight of 20th Century Economics Annals of the Society For the History of Economic Thought. 43: 1-10. DOI: 10.11498/Jshet1963.43.1  0.766
2006 Leeson PT. Evidence on self-enforcing arrangements and heterogeneous groups American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 65: 891-907. DOI: 10.1111/J.1536-7150.2006.00480.X  0.352
2006 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ, Boettke PJ. Does the market self-correct? Asymmetrical adjustment and the structure of economic error Review of Political Economy. 18: 79-90. DOI: 10.1080/09538250500354181  0.707
2006 Leeson PT, Boettke PJ. Was Mises right? Review of Social Economy. 64: 247-265. DOI: 10.1080/00346760600721163  0.688
2006 Leeson PT, Coyne CJ, Boettke PJ. Converting social conflict: Focal points and the evolution of cooperation Review of Austrian Economics. 19: 137-147. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-006-7345-4  0.751
2006 Leeson PT, Subrick JR. Robust political economy Review of Austrian Economics. 19: 107-111. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-006-7342-7  0.478
2006 Sobel RS, Leeson PT. Government's response to Hurricane Katrina: A public choice analysis Public Choice. 127: 55-73. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-006-7730-3  0.38
2006 Leeson PT. How much benevolence is benevolent enough? Public Choice. 126: 357-366. DOI: 10.1007/S11127-006-1710-5  0.415
2005 Boettke PJ, Leeson PT. Still impossible after all these years: Reply to Caplan Critical Review. 17: 155-170. DOI: 10.1080/08913810508443633  0.691
2005 Leeson PT. Self-enforcing arrangements in African political economy Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 57: 241-244. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2004.06.022  0.371
2005 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT, Sautet F. The new comparative political economy Review of Austrian Economics. 18: 281-304. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-005-3113-0  0.778
2005 Leeson PT, Stringham EP. Is government inevitable? Comment on Holcombe's analysis Independent Review. 9: 543-549.  0.666
2004 Boettke PJ, Coyne CJ, Leeson PT. The Many Faces of the Market Journal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humaines. 14: 1-18. DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1127  0.732
2003 Boettke PJ, Leeson PT. Is the transition to the market too important to be left to the market? Economic Affairs. 23: 33-39. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0270.00398  0.686
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2007 Leeson PT. Anarchy, monopoly, and predation Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 163: 467-482. DOI: 10.1628/093245607781871327  0.299
2013 Leeson PT. Gypsy law Public Choice. 155: 273-292. DOI: 10.1007/s11127-012-0048-4  0.293
2012 Leeson PT. Cultural codes: An economic analysis Journal of Multicultural Discourses. 7: 227-233. DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2012.725883  0.288
2014 Smith AC, Houser D, Leeson PT, Ostad R. The costs of conflict Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 97: 61-71. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2013.10.005  0.283
2010 Hall JC, Leeson PT. Racial fractionalization and school performance American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 69: 736-758. DOI: 10.1111/J.1536-7150.2010.00721.X  0.278
2010 Leeson PT. Rational choice, Round Robin, and rebellion: An institutional solution to the problems of revolution Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 73: 297-307. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2009.12.003  0.276
2005 Leeson PT. 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 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 56. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2004.07.002  0.269
2010 Leeson PT. Pirates Review of Austrian Economics. 23: 315-319. DOI: 10.1007/s11138-010-0116-2  0.267
2015 Leeson PT, Pierson J. Economic origins of the no-fault divorce revolution European Journal of Law and Economics. DOI: 10.1007/S10657-015-9501-4  0.266
2007 Leeson PT. Efficient anarchy Public Choice. 130: 41-53. DOI: 10.1007/s11127-006-9071-7  0.265
2010 Leeson PT. Two Cheers for Capitalism? Society. 47: 227-233. DOI: 10.1007/s12115-010-9305-7  0.246
2013 Sanandaji T, Leeson PT. Billionaires Industrial and Corporate Change. 22: 313-337. DOI: 10.1093/icc/dts052  0.246
2010 Hall JC, Leeson PT. The unimportance of spending: How fractionalization affects school performance International Advances in Economic Research. 16: 130-131. DOI: 10.1007/S11294-009-9238-3  0.242
2005 Leeson PT. 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. The Review of Austrian Economics. 18: 223-226. DOI: 10.1007/S11138-005-6829-Y  0.239
2012 Leeson PT. The secrets of pirate management: From "the invisible hook: The hidden economics of pirates", The Secrets of Pirate Management: From "the Invisible Hook: the Hidden Economics of Pirates",. 1-17.  0.213
2012 Leeson PT. The secrets of pirate management: From the invisible hook: The hidden economics of pirates The Secrets of Pirate Management: From the Invisible Hook: the Hidden Economics of Pirates 0.213
2011 Leeson PT, Williamson CR. Can't we all just get along? Fractionalization, institutions and economic consequences The Handbook On the Political Economy of War. 58-71.  0.212
2005 Leeson PT. Better Together: Restoring the American Community The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 64: 961-963. DOI: 10.1111/J.1536-7150.2005.00400.X  0.206
2008 Leeson PT, Sobel RS. Weathering corruption Journal of Law and Economics. 51: 667-681. DOI: 10.1086/590129  0.196
2021 Leeson PT, Rouanet L. Externality and COVID-19. Southern Economic Journal. PMID 33821050 DOI: 10.1002/soej.12497  0.155
2008 Leeson PT. kornai's By Force of Thought We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economics. A review essay of János Kornai's By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. xix+461 pp. ISBN 0262113023 Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. 26: 209-219. DOI: 10.1016/S0743-4154(08)26020-7  0.144
2013 Leeson PT. Vermin trials Journal of Law and Economics. 56: 811-836. DOI: 10.1086/671480  0.14
2021 Leeson PT, Thompson HA. Public choice and public health. Public Choice. 1-37. PMID 33776157 DOI: 10.1007/s11127-021-00900-2  0.139
2015 Leeson PT. Anarchy unbound: Why self-governance works better than you think Anarchy Unbound: Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think. 1-256. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139198813  0.12
2012 Leeson PT. Ordeals Journal of Law and Economics. 55: 691-714. DOI: 10.1086/664010  0.116
2005 Leeson PT. Do contracts require formal enforcement? Anarchy, State and Public Choice. 67-76.  0.089
2012 Heaven PC, Ciarrochi J, Leeson P, Barkus E. Agreeableness, conscientiousness, and psychoticism: distinctive influences of three personality dimensions in adolescence. British Journal of Psychology (London, England : 1953). 104: 481-94. PMID 24094279 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12002  0.081
2012 Leeson PT, Ryan ME, Williamson CR. Think tanks Journal of Comparative Economics. 40: 62-77. DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2011.07.004  0.067
2011 Ciarrochi J, Kashdan TB, Leeson P, Heaven P, Jordan C. On being aware and accepting: a one-year longitudinal study into adolescent well-being. Journal of Adolescence. 34: 695-703. PMID 20950848 DOI: 10.1016/J.Adolescence.2010.09.003  0.057
2010 Leeson PT. Anarchy unbound: How much order can spontaneous order create Handbook On Contemporary Austrian Economics. 136-156.  0.054
2010 Heaven PC, Ciarrochi J, Leeson P. Parental styles and religious values among teenagers: a 3-year prospective analysis. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 171: 93-9. PMID 20333897 DOI: 10.1080/00221320903500861  0.047
2010 Sobel RS, Leeson PT. The use of knowledge in natural disaster relief management The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound. 31-45. DOI: 10.4337/9781849806541.00010  0.023
2014 Salter AW, Leeson PT. Celestial anarchy: A threat to outer space commerce? Cato Journal. 34: 581-596.  0.021
2014 Leeson PT. Oracles Rationality and Society. 26: 141-169. DOI: 10.1177/1043463113512997  0.01
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