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Introduction: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Lifetime Achievement Award

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Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Peter J. Boettke | Jun 01, 2005
This introduction is taken from a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, “Polycentric Political Economy: A Festschrift for Elinor and Vincent Ostrom."

Methodological Individualism, Spontaneous Order and the Research Program of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

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Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Christopher Coyne, Peter J. Boettke | Jun 01, 2005
This paper is an exercise in the archeology of knowledge that seeks to understand the intellectual precursors to the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. This perspective reveals that research agenda of the Ostroms draws significantly from the ideas and themes developed in the first half of the 20th century by Knight, Mises, and Hayek.

Rhetoric vs. Reality Revisited

Scott Beaulier | Mar 2005
This paper is an attempt to set the record straight on the evidence for and against shock therapy. It is not an attempt to address the overall debate on shock therapy versus gradualism. This working…

Look Botswana: No Hands! Why Botswana's Government Should Let The Economy Steer Itself

Scott Beaulier | Mar 2005
This working paper is a study of how the institutional levers of government affect economic activity. The underlying logic is that changes in the "rules of the game" can affect economic outcomes.

Postwar Reconstruction

Some Insights from Public Choice and Institutional Economics
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Constitutional Political Economy
Christopher Coyne, Tyler Cowen | Feb 01, 2005
This paper analyzes the array of relationships that take place in the reconstruction process – political, economic and social – by considering under what circumstances they are situations of conflict or coordination. Historical attempts at reconstruction provide further understanding of how to achieve success.

A Nomos Model of Social Change: How Beliefs Affect Institutions and Vice Versa

Anthony Evans | Dec 2004
In this working paper, Anthony Evans explores the claim that belief systems affect institutions, and vice…

Efficient Anarchy - Working Paper

Peter Leeson | Oct 2004
Can anarchy be efficient? This working paper argues that for reasons of efficiency, rational, wealth-maximizing agents may actually choose statelessness over government in some cases.

What Failure? The Czech Republic 13 Years Later