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Randall Gregory Holcombe
Office Address: Department of EconomicsHome:3514 Limerick Drive
FloridaStateUniversityTallahassee, FL32309
Tallahassee, FL32306
Office phone: (850) 644-7095
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Date of Birth: June 4, 1950
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Education:
Master of Arts in Economics, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, 1976:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Dissertation Chairman: James M. Buchanan
Scaife Foundation Fellowship: 1972-1973
H. B. Earhart Foundation Fellowship: 1973-1974 and 1974-1975
B.S.B.A. in Economics, with Honors, 1972: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida32061
Academic Positions:
FloridaStateUniversity, Tallahassee, Florida32306
DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics, since 1996; Professor of Economics, 1988 to 1996.
AuburnUniversity, Auburn, Alabama 36849
Lowder Professor of Economics, 1986 to 1988; Professor, 1985 to 1986; Associate Professor, 1981 to 1985; Assistant Professor, 1977 to 1981.
TexasA&MUniversity, College Station, Texas 77843
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1975 to 1977.
Related Activities:
Book Series Editor, Studies in Public Choice, for Springer, 2008 to present.
Editorial Board Member, Public Choice, 2004 to present; Book Review Editor, 2005-2011.
Editorial Board Member, The Review of Austrian Economics, 1987-1997, and 2013 to present.
Editorial Board Member, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 1998 to present.
Editorial Board Member, Public Choice and Constitutional Economics, 2001 to present.
Editorial Board Member, Public Finance and Management, 2012 to present.
Editorial Board Member, Business and Economics, 2012-present.
Contributing Editor, The Independent Review, 2003 to present.
Advisory Council Member, Econ Journal Watch, 2001 to present.
Advisory Board Member, Journal of Florida Studies, 2011-present.
Senior Fellow, The James Madison Institute, Tallahassee, Florida, 2004 to present, Chairman, Research Advisory Council, 1991 to 2004; Research Advisory Council Member, 1987 to 2004.
Associated Scholar, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 2012 to present. Adjunct Scholar, 1982-2012.
Advisory Board Member, Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, The Independent Institute, Oakland, California, 2005 to present.
President, Public Choice Society, 2006-2008.
President, Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, 2007.
Member, Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors, 2000 to 2006.
Member, PacificLegalFoundationAtlanticCenter Advisory Council, 2001-2006.
Advisory Board Member, The Beacon Hill Institute, SuffolkUniversity, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996 to 2005.
Advisory Board Member, Urban Futures Program, Reason Public Policy Institute, Los Angeles, California, 1997 to 2005.
Editorial Board Member, Public Finance Review, 1995 to 2003.
Member, Leon County (Florida) Council of Economic Advisors, 1996 to 1999.
Honors and Awards:
Best Article Award, Atlantic Economic Journal, awarded October 12, 1996.
DeVoe Moore Professorship, FloridaStateUniversity, appointed in 1996.
Undergraduate Teaching Incentive Award, FloridaStateUniversity, 1994.
Ludwig von Mises Prize for scholarship in Austrian Economics, awarded October 10, 1992.
Georgescu-Roegen Prize in Economics for the best article in the Southern Economic Journal in the past year, awarded November 22, 1992.
Listed in Who's Who in America since 1988. Also listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Men of Achievement, and The Dictionary of International Biography.
Lowder Professorship, Auburn University, 1986-1988.
Selected Publications
Books:
Public Finance and the Political Process. Carbondale: Southern IllinoisUniversity Press, 1983.
An Economic Analysis of Democracy. Carbondale: Southern IllinoisUniversity Press, 1985.
Public Sector Economics. Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1988.
Economic Models and Methodology. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
The Economic Foundations of Government. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1994. (Simultaneously published by New York University Press.)
Public Policy and the Quality of Life. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Public Finance: Government Revenues and Expenditures in the United States Economy. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1996.
Growth and Variability in State Revenue: An Anatomy of State Fiscal Crises (with Russell S. Sobel). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Writing Off Ideas: Taxation, Foundations, and Philanthropy in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2000.
From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Public Sector Economics: The Role of Government in the American Economy. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress. London: Routledge, 2007.
Producing Prosperity: An Inquiry Into the Operation of the Market Process. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
Books, as Editor:
15 Great Austrian Economists. Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999.
Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land Use Planning in the 21st Century (co-edited with Samuel R. Staley). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis (co-edited with Benjamin Powell). New Brunswick: Transaction, 2009.
Publications in Academic and Professional Journals:
"The Florida System: A Bowen Equilibrium Referendum Process," National Tax Journal 30, No. 1 (March 1977), pp. 77-84.
"A Method for Estimating the GNP Loss from a Future Oil Embargo," Policy Sciences 8 (1977), pp. 217-234.
"The Appeal of the Minimum Wage Laws: A Dynamic Analysis" (with John Metcalf), Public Choice 29 (Spring, 1977), pp. 139-141.
"Rational Choice and the Taxation of Sin" (with M. Crain, T. Deaton, and R. Tollison), Journal of Public Economics 8 (1977), pp. 239-245.
"Taxation and Energy Policy," Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly 26, No. 2 (December 1977), pp. 224-233.
"Optimality and the Institutional Structure of Bureaucracy" (with Edward Price), Public Choice 33, No. 1 (Spring 1978), pp. 55-59.
"The Strategic Petroleum Reserve," Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly 26, No. 4 (June 1978), pp. 457-465.
"The Continuing Social Contract," Social Science 53, No. 4 (Autumn 1978), pp. 211-216.
"Public Choice and Public Spending," National Tax Journal 26, No. 4 (December 1978), pp. 373-383.
"The Politics and Economics of Energy Policy," Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly 27, No. 3 (March 1979), pp. 337-346.
"Monopoly Aspects of Political Parties" (with Mark Crain and Robert Tollison), Atlantic Economic Journal 7, No. 2 (July 1979), pp. 54-58.
"An Evaluation of Some Microeconomic Consequences of a Future Oil Embargo," Policy Sciences 10 (1979), pp. 207-220.
"Lindahl Pricing of the Law" (with Robert D. Tollison), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali 26, No. 11 (November 1979), pp. 1044-1054.
"Tax Referenda and the Voluntary Exchange Model of Taxation" (with Paul C. Taylor), Public Finance Quarterly 8, No. 1 (January 1980), pp. 107-114.
"The Use of Economic Analysis in Law" (with Roger E. Meiners), The Alabama Lawyer 41, No. 2 (April 1980), pp. 222-225.
"An Empirical Test of the Median Voter Model," Economic Inquiry 18, No. 2 (April 1980), pp. 260-274; reprinted in Charles K. Rowley, ed., Public Choice Theory,London: Edward Elgar, 1993.
"Concepts of Public Sector Equilibrium," The National Tax Journal 33, No. 1 (March 1980), pp. 77-88.
"The Effect of Futures Trading on Price Variability in the Market For Onions" (with Richard S. Higgins), Atlantic Economic Journal 8, No. 2 (July 1980) pp. 44-52.
"Corrective Taxes and Auctions of Rights in the Control of Externalities" (with Roger E. Meiners), Public Finance Quarterly 8, No. 3 (July 1980), pp. 345-349.
"A Contractarian Model of the Decline in Classical Liberalism," Public Choice 35, No. 3 (1980), pp. 277-286.
"Public Investment in a Democracy" (with Asghar Zardkoohi), Southern Economic Journal 47, No. 1 (July 1980), pp. 210-217.
"Causes of the Energy Crisis," Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly 29, No. 1 (September 1980), pp. 139-150.
"The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: An Economic Perspective," The Military Engineer 73, No. 472 (March-April, 1981), pp. 89-92.
"An Estimation of the Lag Structure of the Economic Impact of an Oil Embargo" (with Charles I. Tiplitz), Policy Sciences 13 (1981), pp. 183-193.
"Intra-Industry Adjustment and the Correction of an Externality" (with Edwin L. Stecher), Atlantic Economic Journal 9, No. 3 (September 1981), pp. 79-84.
"The National Debt Controversy" (with John Jackson and Asghar Zardkoohi), Kyklos 34, Fasc. 2 (1981), pp. 186-202. Reprinted in Samuel Becker and Catherine Elliot, Readings in Public Sector Economics. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990, pp. 496-503.
"The Determinants of Federal Grants" (with Asghar Zardkoohi), Southern Economic Journal 48, No. 2 (October 1981), pp. 393-399.
"The Contractual Alternative to Patents" (with Roger E. Meiners), International Review of Law and Economics 1 (1981), pp. 227-231.
"Corrective Taxes and Auctions of Rights in the Control of Externalities: Reply" (with Roger E. Meiners), Public Finance Quarterly 9, No. 4 (October 1981), pp. 479-484.
"Rational Choice and the Taxation of Sin: Reply" (with W. Mark Crain, Thomas H. Deaton, and Robert D. Tollison), Journal of Public Economics 16, No. 2 (October 1981), pp. 261-263.
"The National Debt Controversy: Reply" (with John Jackson and Asghar Zardkhoohi), Kyklos 35, Fasc. 4 (1982), pp. 713-718.
"Deficits, Savings, and Capital Formation," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 67, No. 8 (August 1982), pp. 38-44.
"The Determinants of Federal Grants: Reply" (with Asghar Zardkoohi), Southern Economic Journal 50, No. 1 (July 1983), pp. 275-276.
"On the Distribution of Federal Taxes and Expenditures, and the New War Between the States" (with Asghar Zardkoohi), Public Choice 40 (1983), pp. 165-174.
"Market Arrangements versus Government Protection of Innovative Activity" (with Roger E. Meiners), Social Science Review 5, No. 1 (Fall 1983), pp. 1-19.
"Applied Fairness Theory: Comment," American Economic Review 73, No. 5 (December 1983), pp. 1153-1156.
"The Effect of Macroeconomic Variables on State and Local Government Expenditures" (with Asghar Zardkoohi), Atlantic Economic Journal 11, No. 4 (December 1983), pp. 34-41.
"The Return to the Federal Government from Investment in Higher Education" (with Lora P. Holcombe), Public Finance Quarterly 12, No. 3 (July 1984), pp. 365-371.
"Is Legislation a Public Good?" Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali 31, No. 6 (1984), pp. 524-536.
"The Effects of Heterogeneous Expectations on the Capital Structure of the Firm" (with Richard P. Saba), Southern Economic Journal 51, No. 2 (October 1984), pp. 356-368.
"Tax Shares and Government Spending in a Median Voter Model" (with Steven B. Caudill), Public Choice 46, No. 2 (1985), pp. 197-205.
"New Evidence for Flat Tax Reform," Cato Journal 5, No. 2 (Fall 1985), pp. 591-596.
"Non-Optimal Unanimous Agreement," Public Choice 48, No. 3 (1986), pp. 229-244.
"The Effects of the Tax Structure on the Distribution of Disposable Income," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali 33, No. 6-7 (June-July 1986), pp. 585-602.
"The Market for Regulation" (with Lora P. Holcombe), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 142, No. 4 (December 1986), pp. 684-696.
"Interest Groups and the Antitrust Paradox," (with Bruce Benson and M. L. Greenhunt), Cato Journal 6, No. 3 (Winter 1987), pp. 801-817.
"Public Investment and its Effects on the Burden of the Public Debt" (with Juergen Backhaus and Asghar Zardkoohi), Southern Economic Journal 54, No. 1 (July 1987), pp. 145-158.
"Coefficient Bias due to Specification Search in Econometric Models" (with Steven B. Caudill), Atlantic Economic Journal 15, No. 3 (September 1987), pp. 30-34.
"Conditions for Coefficient Stability in Input-Output Models" (with Steven B. Caudill), Review of Business and Economic Research 23, No. 2 (Spring 1988), pp. 29-37.
"Household Production and Labor Supply" (with Steven B. Caudill), International Journal of Manpower 9, no 3 (1988), pp. 7-9.
"The Median Voter Model in Public Choice Theory," Public Choice 61, No. 2 (May 1989), pp. 115-125.
"A Note on Seniority and Political Competition," Public Choice 61, No. 3 (June 1989), pp. 285-288.
"Government by Contract" (with Donald J. Boudreaux), Public Finance Quarterly 17, No. 3 (July 1989), pp. 264-280.
"Non-Optimal Unanimous Agreement Under Majority Rule: Reply," Public Choice 62, No. 1 (July 1989), pp. 89-92.
"Public Investment and the Burden of the Public Debt: Reply," (with Juergen Backhaus and Asghar Zardkoohi), Southern Economic Journal 56, No. 2 (October 1989), pp. 532-534.
"The Coasian and Knightian Theories of the Firm" (with Donald J. Boudreaux), Managerial and Decision Economics 10 (June 1989), pp. 147-154.
"Taxation and the Redistribution of Income" (with Steven B. Caudill), Atlantic Economic Journal 17, No. 3 (September 1989), pp. 39-42.
"Political Parties and the Legislative Principal-Agent Relationship" (with James D. Gwartney), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 145, No. 4 (December 1989), pp. 669-675.
"The Tax Cost of Privatization," Southern Economic Journal 56, No. 3 (January 1990), pp. 732-742.
"Distributional Aspects of Florida's Concurrency Requirement," Florida Policy Review 5, No. 2 (Winter 1990), pp. 8-14.
"Growth Management in Florida: Lessons for the National Economy," Cato Journal 10, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1990), pp. 109-125.
"Growth Management and Land Use Planning in Florida," Florida Policy Review 6, No. 1 (Summer 1990), pp. 6-12.
"The Value-Added Tax and the Sales Tax," Rivista Internationale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali 37, No. 9 (September 1990), pp. 799-815.
"Committees in Legislatures: A Property Rights Perspective" (with Glenn R. Parker), Public Choice 70 (1991), pp. 11-20.
"Barriers to Entry and Political Competition," Journal of Theoretical Politics 3, No. 2 (April 1991), pp. 231-240.
"Privatization of Municipal Wastewater Treatment," Public Budgeting & Finance 11, No. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 28-42.
"Constitutions as Constraints: A Case Study of Three American Constitutions," Constitutional Political Economy 2, No. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 303-328.
"A Method for Identifying General Aviation Airports that are Candidates for Runway Extensions: A Planning Model for State Aviation Systems" (with Henry B. Burdg), The Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research 2, No. 2 (Winter 1992), pp. 14-26.
"The Distributive Model of Government: Evidence from the Confederate Constitution," Southern Economic Journal 58, No 3 (January 1992), pp. 762-769.
"Revolving Fund Finance: The Case of Wastewater Treatment," Public Budgeting & Finance 12, No. 3 (Fall 1992), pp. 50-65.
"Are There Ratchets in the Growth of Federal Government Spending?" Public Finance Quarterly 21, No. 1 (January 1993), pp. 33-47.
"The Origin of the Legislature," Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 11, No. 1 (1993), pp. 3-18.
"The Regulation of Lobbyists" (with Margaret F. Brinig and Linda Schwartzstein), Public Choice 77, No. 2 (October 1993), pp. 377-384.
"Federal Funding and the Cartelization of State Governments" (with Michael D. Stroup), Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 11, Nos. 2/3 (1993), pp. 101-109.
"Is Revenue-Neutral Tax Reform Revenue Neutral?" (with Jeffrey A. Mills), Public Finance Quarterly 22, No. 1 (January 1994), pp. 65-85.
"The Welfare State, Poverty, and Economic Opportunity," Contemporary Philosophy 16, No. 1 (January/February 1994), pp. 11-14.
"Empirical Evidence on the Publicness of State Legislative Activities" (with Russell S. Sobel), Public Choice 83, Nos. 1-2 (April 1995), pp. 47-58.
"The Relative Variability of State Income and Sales Taxes over the Revenue Cycle" (with Russell S. Sobel), Atlantic Economic Journal 23, No. 2 (June 1995), pp. 97-112.
"Politics and Deficit Finance" (with Jeffrey A. Mills), Public Finance Quarterly 23, No. 4 (October 1995), pp. 448-466.
"The Stability of International Coalitions in United Nations Voting from 1946 to 1973" (with Russell S. Sobel), Public Choice 86, Nos. 1-2 (January 1996), pp. 17-34.
“The Role of Fictions in Society,” Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice 14, no. 1 (1996), pp. 15-30.
"The Role of Federal Funding on the Demand for State and Local Government Spending" (with Michael D. Stroup), Atlantic Economic Journal 24, No. 2 (June 1996), pp. 131-143.
"The Impact of State Rainy Day Funds in Easing State Fiscal Crises During the 1990-91 Recession" (with Russell S. Sobel), Public Budgeting & Finance 16, No. 3 (Fall 1996), pp. 28-48.
"Measuring the Growth and Variability of Tax Bases Over the Business Cycle" (with Russell S. Sobel), National Tax Journal 49, No. 4 (December 1996), pp. 535-552.
"Vibert's Vision: Constitutional Theory in Search of a Constitution," Constitutional Political Economy 7, No. 4 (1996), pp. 281-291.
"The Growth of the Federal Government in the 1920s," Cato Journal 16, No. 2 (Fall 1996), pp. 175-199.
"Absence of Envy Does Not Imply Fairness," Southern Economic Journal 63, No. 3 (January 1997), pp. 797-802.
"A Theory of the Theory of Public Goods," Review of Austrian Economics 10, No. 1 (1997), pp. 1-22.
"Lessons From the Laffer Curve and Tax Policy in the 1980s and 1990s" (with James D. Gwartney), Journal of Private Enterprise 13 (January 1998), pp.86-105.
“Tax Policy from a Public Choice Perspective,” National Tax Journal 51, no. 2 (June 1998), pp. 359-371.
“Constitutional Theory and the Constitutional History of Colonial America,” Independent Review 3, no. 1 (Summer 1998), pp. 21-36.
“Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 1, no. 2 (Summer 1998), pp. 45-62.
“Interests Versus Ideology in the Ratification of the 16th and 17th Amendments” (with Donald J. Lacombe), Economics & Politics 10, no. 2 (July 1998), pp. 143-159.
“Una Teoria Sobre la Teoria de los Bienes Publicos,” Libertas 15, no. 29 (October 1998), pp. 3-31. (Spanish translation of "A Theory of the Theory of Public Goods," Review of Austrian Economics 10, No. 1 (1997), pp. 1-22.)
“The Scope of Government and the Wealth of Nations” (with James Gwartney and Robert Lawson), Cato Journal 18, no. 2 (Fall 1998), pp. 163-190.
“Veterans Interests and the Transition to Government Growth: 1870-1915,” Public Choice 99, no. 3-4 (June 1999), pp. 311-326.
”Specification Search and Levels of Significance in Econometric Models” (with Steven B. Caudill), Eastern Economic Journal 25, no. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 289-300.
“Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: Reply,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 2, no. 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 73-78.
“Equilibrium Versus the Invisible Hand,” Review of Austrian Economics 12, no. 2 (1999), pp. 227-243.
“Economic Freedom and the Environment for Economic Growth” (with James Gwartney and Robert Lawson), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 155, no. 4 (December 1999), pp. 643-663.
“Consumption Externalities and Economic Welfare” (with Russell S. Sobel), Eastern Economic Journal 26, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 157-170.
“Public Goods Theory and Public Policy,” Journal of Value Inquiry 34, nos. 2-3 (September 2000), pp. 273-286..
“Absence of Envy Does Not Imply Fairness: Reply,” Southern Economic Journal 67, no. 2 (October 2000), pp. 485-487.
“The Unanimous Voting Rule Is Not the Political Equivalent to Market Exchange” (with Russell S. Sobel), Public Choice 106, nos. 3/4 (March 2001), pp. 233-242.
“Public Policy Toward Pecuniary Externalities (with Russell S. Sobel),” Public Finance Review 29, no. 4 (July 2001), pp. 304-325.
“Constitutions and Democracy,” Economie Publique 7, no. 1 (2001), pp. 43-58.
“The Growth of Local Government in the United States from 1820 to 1870” (with Donald J. Lacombe), Journal of Economic History 61, no. 1 (March 2001), pp. 184-189.
”The Two Contributions of Garrison’s Time and Money,” Quarterly Review of Austrian Economics 4, no. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 45-50.
“Liberty and Democracy as Economic Systems,” Independent Review 6, no. 3 (Winter 2002), pp. 407-425.
“Political Entrepreneurship and the Democratic Allocation of Economic Resources,” Review of Austrian Economics 15, nos. 2/3 (June 2002), pp. 143-159. Reprinted in Mangus Henrekson, Jacob Wallenberg, and Tino Sanadaji, Institutions and Entrepreneurship (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012).
“The Ramsey Rule Reconsidered,” Public Finance Review 30, no. 6 (November 2002), pp. 562-578.
”The Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunities,” Review of Austrian Economics 16, no. 1 (2003), pp. 25-43.
“Information, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Progress,” Advances in Austrian Economics 6 (2003), pp. 177-199.
“Taxing Services,” FloridaStateUniversity Law Review 30, no. 3 (Spring 2003), pp. 467-475.
“The Size and Significance of the Pareto Set in Spatial Voting Models,” Public Choice 116, nos. 1-2 (July 2003), pp. 19-29.
“Eliminating Scope of Practice and Licensing Laws to Improve Health Care,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 31, no. 2(Summer 2003), pp. 236-246.
“Progress and Entrepreneurship,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 6, no. 3 (Fall 2003), pp. 3-26. Reprinted in The ICFAI Journal of Entrepreneurship Development 1, no. 3 (September 2004), pp. 10-28.
“Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable,” The Independent Review 8, no. 3 (Winter 2004), pp. 325-342. Reprinted in Mario J. Rizzo, ed., Austrian Law and Economics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011), Chapter 29.
“The New Urbanism Versus the Market Process,” Review of Austrian Economics 17, nos. 2-3 (June 2004)., pp. 285-300
“The Effect of State Income Taxation on Per Capita Income Growth” (with Donald J. Lacombe), Public Finance Review 32, no. 3 (May 2004), pp. 292-312.
“Using Matched Border Counties for Policy Analysis: The Effects of Entitlement Programs on Female-Headed Households and Female Labor Force Participation” (with Donald J. Lacombe), Eastern Economic Journal 30, no. 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 399-413.
“National Income Accounting and Public Policy,” Review of Austrian Economics 17, no. 4 (2004), pp. 387-405.
“Factors Underlying the Growth of Local Government in the 19th Century United States” (with Donald J. Lacombe), Public Choice 120, nos. 3-4(September 2004), pp. 359-377.
“Economic Freedom, Institutional Quality, and Cross-Country Differences in Income and Growth” (with James D. Gwartney and Robert A. Lawson), Cato Journal 24, no. 3 (Fall 2004), pp. 205-233.
“Echoes of Henry George in Modern Analysis: A Comment on Three Applications,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 63, no. 5 (November 2004), pp. 1131-1138.
“The National Research Council Ranking of Research Universities: Its Impact on Research in Economics,” Econ Journal Watch 1, no. 3 (December 2004), pp. 498-514.
“Common Property in Anarcho-Capitalism,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 19, no. 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 3-26.
”Is Government Inevitable? Reply to Leeson and Stringham,” The Independent Review 9, no. 4 (Spring 2005), pp. 551-557.
“Government Growth in the Twenty-First Century,” Public Choice 124, nos. 1-2 (July 2005), pp. 95-114.
“The Effects of Public Investment on Private Investment in Developing Countries” (With Lutfi Erden), Public Finance Review 33, no. 5 (September 2005), pp. 575-602.
“The Linkage Between Public and Private Investment: A Co-integration Analysis of a Panel of in Developing Countries” (with Lutfi Erden), Eastern Economic Journal 32, no. 3 (Summer 2006), pp. 479-492.