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.
The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange
Art Carden | July 25, 2017
More and Better: Resources Defined Through Property and Exchange
Art Carden | May 5, 2017
Of Arms, Freedom, and Capitalism
What Piers Morgan Does Not Know
Charles A. Breiterman | February 5, 2015
Retail Innovations in American Economic History
The Rise of Mass-Market Merchandisers
Art Carden | July 26, 2012
A Brief History of Checkpoints (And What to do About Them)
Patrick Adams | April 1, 2012
Iraq, Afghanistan, War, and Money: A Look at Two Presidencies
Anthony Gregory | March 7, 2011
Life Expectancy, Health Care, and Economics
Kirby R. Cundiff | November 17, 2010
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Political Economy of California Water Allocation
Leo K. Simon, Susan Stratton Sayre, Rachael E. Goodhue | September 22, 2010
Private Policing in San Francisco
Edward P. Stringham | December 21, 2009
Keys to Economics of Global Warming
A Critique of the Dismal Theorem
Sungno Niggol Seo | November 3, 2009
Internal Enforcement
The Political Economy of Immigration
Keith D. Malone | October 30, 2009
Love’s Imperative
A Study on Kant and Kolbe
José Maria J. Yulo | August 18, 2009
Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes
Bryan Caplan, Edward P. Stringham | October 17, 2007
Jacob K. Javits and Latin American Economic Integration
Salvador Rivera, Ph.D. | August 20, 2007
Mere Economic Science
C. S. Lewis and the Poverty of Naturalism
David J. Theroux | March 6, 2007
The Radical Libertarian Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb
Edward P. Stringham | December 14, 2006
Taxing Development: The Law and Economics of Traffic Impact Fees
Edward P. Stringham, Benjamin Powell, John B. Estill | December 12, 2006
Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?
Benjamin Powell, Ryan Ford, Alex Nowrasteh | November 30, 2006
Is Future Conflict with China Unavoidable?
Ivan Eland | January 19, 2006
A Geo-Spatial Macro-Economic Analysis of Climate Change
Sungno Niggol Seo | August 18, 2005
An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles
Bart J. Wilson, Benjamin Powell | May 23, 2005
Development Aid and Economic Freedom: Are They Related?
Benjamin Powell, Matt E. Ryan | May 9, 2005
Government and the Economy: The World Wars
Robert Higgs | April 20, 2005
Government and the Economy since World War II
Robert Higgs | April 20, 2005
Is Cybersecurity a Public Good? Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
Benjamin Powell | March 14, 2005
