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Working Papers

Working Papers are research articles that have been submitted to the Independent Institute or written by our Fellows, but have not yet been published or peer reviewed. Independent maintains this index of working papers in order to help disseminate, discuss, and improve important ideas. Authors welcome informed comments. If you would like to submit your paper for possible inclusion please email the paper’s abstract to Independent’s Research Director, William F. Shughart II.

Financial Integration over Three Centuries
James R. Lothian  ·  April 1, 2001
Political Systems, Economics of Organization, and the Information Revolution (The Supply Side of Public Choice)
Jean-Jacques Rosa  ·  April 2, 2001
Public Health and the Placebo
The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
Russell S. Sobel  ·  April 3, 2001
The Changing United States Health Care System
The Effect of Competition on Structure and Performance
Robert B. Helms  ·  April 4, 2001
Minimum Wages For Women Only
Clifford F. Thies  ·  April 5, 2001
The Positive Correlation of Price and Concentration in Staples: Market Power or Indivisibility?
Craig M. Newmark  ·  April 6, 2001
You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care
David A. Hyman, Charles Silver  ·  April 7, 2001
Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens?
An Economic Analysis of Internalizing Legal Values
Robert D. Cooter  ·  April 8, 2001
Homicide Rates and Substance Control Policy
Kirby R. Cundiff  ·  May 1, 2001
Teacher Training and Texas Education Reform
A Study in Contradiction
J. E. Stone  ·  May 2, 2001
Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?
Philipp W. Harms, Heinrich W. Ursprung  ·  May 3, 2001
Political Yardstick Competition, Economic Integration, and Constitutional Choice in a Federation
Martin R. Bodenstein, Heinrich W. Ursprung  ·  May 4, 2001
Nation of Origin Bias and the Enforcement of Immigration Laws by the Immigration and Naturalization Service
Jim F. Couch, Brett A. King, William H. Wells, Peter M. Williams  ·  June 1, 2001
Constitutional Causes for Technological Leadership: Why Europe?
Jurgen G. Backhaus  ·  August 1, 2001
Economic Principles of Constitutions
An Economic Analysis of Constitutional Law
Jurgen G. Backhaus  ·  August 2, 2001
Privateering and National Defense: Naval Warfare for Private Profit
Larry J. Sechrest  ·  September 1, 2001
Development of the American Railroad Network During the Early 19th Century
Private versus Public Enterprise
Clifford F. Thies  ·  October 1, 2001
The Demand for Democide
An Instrumental Variables Analysis
King Banaian  ·  December 1, 2001
International Money and Common Currencies in Historical Perspective
James R. Lothian, Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr.  ·  May 1, 2002
Wartime Socialization of Investment
A Reassessment of U.S. Capital Formation in the 1940s
Robert Higgs  ·  June 2, 2003
The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective Good
Fred E. Foldvary  ·  October 1, 2003
Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements?
Testing an Argument by Structured Conversations with Experts
Alexander T. Tabarrok, Daniel B. Klein  ·  October 2, 2003
The Ongoing Growth of Government in the Economically Advanced Countries
Robert Higgs  ·  October 3, 2003
Individual Unemployment Accounts
Stephen M. Colarelli, Lawrence Brunner  ·  October 5, 2003
Prostitution and Sex Crimes
Kirby R. Cundiff  ·  April 8, 2004


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