![]() Alexander T. Tabarrok
Senior Fellow
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Alexander Tabarrok is Senior Fellow and former Research Director for The Independent Institute, Assistant Editor of The Independent Review, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center, Co-founder of Marginal Revolution University, and Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice and Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and he has taught at the University of Virginia and Ball State University. Co-author (with Daniel Klein) of The Independent Institute web site, FDAReview.org, Dr. Tabarrok is the editor of The Independent Institute books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science (Oxford University Press), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with David Beito and Peter Gordon, University of Michigan Press), and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime. His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos and many other journals. Dr. Tabarrok is an author of the monograph, An Analysis of Proposals for Constitutional Change in New Zealand and he has contributed chapters to a number of books. Dr. Tabarrok is the recipient of the Snavely Award, and he has been an Earhart Foundation Fellow and George A. and Frances Ball Foundation Fellow. Articles by Dr. Tabarrok have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the United States.
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Books | |
Judge and Jury | 2006 |
Changing the Guard | 2003 |
Entrepreneurial Economics | 2002 |
Liberty for Women | 2002 |
The Voluntary City | 2002 |
Video | ||
Alexander Tabarrok on Three City Gun Buy-Back Event | February 22, 2013 | |
Tabarrok on Debt and Imprisonment | April 20, 2012 | |
Alexander Tabarrok on Bounty Hunting & Defending the Indefensible | August 18, 2011 | |
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Audio | |
Alex Tabarrok on Americas Radio News Network | January 14, 2013 |
Alex Tabarrok: Launching the Innovation Renaissance | December 9, 2011 |
Alex Tabarrok Interviewed on Freakonomics Radio: The Economics of Bounty Hunting | May 26, 2011 |
Private Solutions for Reducing Road Congestion, Fuel Costs, Travel Time, and Waste | September 28, 2006 |
Independent Review Articles | |
Premature Imitation and Indias Flailing State | Fall 2019 |
The Global Organ Shortage | Fall 2013 |
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Privateers | Spring 2007 |
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Commentary Articles | |
Tuning In to Dropping Out | March 4, 2012 |
The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State | January 26, 2012 |
The No-Brainer Issue of the Year: Let High-Skill Immigrants Stay | December 20, 2011 |
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Open Letter | |
Open Letter on Immigration | June 19, 2006 |
Presentations | |
Arguments for Federalism | September 20, 2001 |
Immigration Integration | May 24, 2001 |
The War on Drugs is a War on People | October 30, 2000 |
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Research Articles | |
The Blessed Monopolies | December 1, 2001 |
Monopolies for Children? Pediatric Exclusivity and the Orphan Drug Act | December 13, 2000 |
Working Papers | |
Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements? | October 2, 2003 |
The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescriptions | November 1, 1999 |
Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury | September 2, 1999 |
The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards | September 1, 1999 |