Professor of Political Science and Political Economy
Director, Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Immediate Past President, Public Choice Society
The Political Economy of Criminal Governance
What makes signals credible?
Review of The Partisan Politics of Law and Order, by Georg Wenzelburger. A Critical Dialogue in Perspectives on Politics, 2021
Review of Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons, by David C. Pyrooz & Scott H. Decker Punishment & Society, 2020
Review of WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird, by Peter T. Leeson Public Choice, 2018
Review of Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail, by Marcus Rediker Journal of Economic History, 2014
Review of The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishments, and Social Community, by Amy E. Lerman Public Choice, 2014
Review Essay of Prisonomics: Behind Bars in Britain's Failing Prisons, by Vicky Pryce Economic Affairs, 2014
Review of Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories, by Federico Varese Public Choice, 2012
Comparative Approaches to the Study of Prison Gangs and Prison Order (with K Woltz)
The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society, forthcoming.
Analytical Narratives and Institutional Analysis
Essays in Honor of Peter Boettke, 2020.
Prisoner's Law
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, 2019
Varieties of Prison Social Order: Extra-legal Governance Behind Bars
The Political Economist Newsletter, Fall 2017
Self-Governance, Property Rights, and Illicit Commerce
Research Handbook on Austrian Law & Economics, 2017
Prison Gangs (with D. Freire)
Handbook of Corrections in the United States, 2017
Polycentrism and Prison Gangs (with A. Marcum)
The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, 2012
Restricting Reconstruction: Occupational Licensing and Natural Disasters
The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound, 2010
Adam's Apple: Using Johnny Appleseed to Teach the Invisible Hand' (with J. Hall)
Expanding Teaching and Learning Horizons in Economic Education, 2009
Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil
[w D Freire]
Research and Politics, 2023
Analytic Narratives in Political Economy
[with E. Skarbek]
History of Political Economy, 2023
The Organization of Danish Gangs: A Transaction Cost Approach
[with S. Sløk-Madsen, A. Hansen, and A. Rezaei]
Trends in Organized Crime, 2021
The Evolution of Norms within a Society of Captives
[with C. Seagren]
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2021
Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies: Evidence from Latin American Countries
[with D. Freire and U. Mignozzetti]
Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2021
Qualitative Research Methods for Institutional Analysis.
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2020
The Decline and Rise of Institutions
[with Liya Palagashvili and E. Piano]
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements, 2017
Covenants without the Sword? Comparing Prison Self-Governance Globally
American Political Science Review, 2016
Criminal Rituals
[with P. Wang]
Global Crime, 2015
Prison Gangs and the Community Responsibility System
[with M. Garrett Roth]
Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014
The Effect of Prison Gang Membership on Recidivism
[with B. Dooley and A. Seals]
Journal of Criminal Justice, 2014
Why Didn't Slaves Revolt More Often During the Middle Passage?
[with A. Marcum]
Rationality & Society, 2014
The Governance Institutions of a Drug Trafficking Organization
[with J. Kostelnik]
Public Choice, 2013
The Industrial Organization of Street Gangs
[with R. Sobel]
Journal of Gang Research, 2012
Anarchy, Groups, and Conflict: An Experiment on the Emergence of Protective Associations
[with A. Smith and B. Wilson]
Social Choice & Welfare, 2012
Prison Gangs, Norms, and Organizations
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012
Sweatshops, Opportunity Costs, and Non-Monetary Compensation: Evidence from El Salvador
[with Skarbek et al]
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 2012
Governance and Prison Gangs
American Political Science Review, 2011
Putting the "Con" into Constitutions: The Economics of Prison Gangs
The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2010
Criminal Constitutions
[with P. Leeson]
Global Crime, 2010
Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison
The Independent Review, 2010
Sweatshops Wages and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?
[with B. Powell]
Journal of Labor Research, 2006