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.
Minimum Wages For Women Only
Clifford F. Thies | April 5, 2001
The Changing United States Health Care System
The Effect of Competition on Structure and Performance
Robert B. Helms | April 4, 2001
Public Health and the Placebo
The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
Russell S. Sobel | April 3, 2001
Political Systems, Economics of Organization, and the Information Revolution (The Supply Side of Public Choice)
Jean-Jacques Rosa | April 2, 2001
Financial Integration over Three Centuries
James R. Lothian | April 1, 2001
Do Parties Benefit from Electoral Manipulation?
Electoral Laws and Heresthetics in Poland, 1989-1993
Marek M. Kaminski | March 2, 2001
Constitutional Design and Economic Freedom
Xavier de Vanssay, Zane Spindler | March 1, 2001
Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration
The Effects of Incentives and Organizational Structure
Jonathan M. Karpoff | June 1, 2000
Conflicts of Interest in the Hollywood Film Industry
Darren Filson, Thomas E. Borcherding | April 1, 2000
What Larry Doesn’t Get
A Libertarian Response to Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
David G. Post | February 1, 2000
Democracy, Spontaneous Order and Peace
Implications for the Classical Liberal Critique of Democratic Politics
Gus diZerega | January 3, 2000
Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England
Daniel Klerman | January 2, 2000
Islands in a Sea of Obligation: Limits on the Duty To Rescue
David J. Schmidtz | January 1, 2000
Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union
Dmitriy Gershenson, Herschel I. Grossman | December 7, 1999
Freedom of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, and the Clinton Administration
Eugene Volokh | December 6, 1999
An Introduction to Economics as a Moral Science
James E. Alvey | December 5, 1999
Freedom of Speech, Information Privacy, and the Troubling Implications of a Right to Stop People from Speaking About You
Eugene Volokh | December 4, 1999
The State: Agent or Proprietor?
Herschel I. Grossman | December 3, 1999
New Anti-Merger Theories
Edward J. López | December 2, 1999
The Statute that Time Forgot
18 U.S.C. € 3501 and the Overhauling of Miranda
Paul G. Cassell | December 1, 1999
The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescriptions
Alexander T. Tabarrok | November 1, 1999
Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates
Mapping Out the Consequences of The Exclusionary Rule
Raymond A. Atkins, Paul H. Rubin | October 7, 1999
Litigation versus Legislation
Forum Shopping by Rent-Seekers
Christopher Curran, John F. Curran, Paul H. Rubin | October 6, 1999
Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure
Bryan Caplan | October 5, 1999
Standing Tiebout on His Head
Tax Capitalization and the Monopoly Power of Local Governments
Bryan Caplan | October 4, 1999
When Is Two Better than One?
How Federalism Mitigates and Intensifies Imperfect Political Competition
Bryan Caplan | October 3, 1999
The Logic of Collective Belief
Bryan Caplan | October 2, 1999
Has Leviathan Been Bound?
A Theory of Imperfectly Constrained Government with Evidence from the States
Bryan Caplan | October 1, 1999
Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury
Alexander T. Tabarrok, Eric A. Helland | September 2, 1999
The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards
Alexander T. Tabarrok, Eric A. Helland | September 1, 1999
