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Working Papers are research articles that have been submitted to the Institute or written by our Fellows, but have not yet been published or peer reviewed. The Institute 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 the Institute’s research director, Alexander Tabarrok.

Date	Title	Author(s)
10/17/2007	Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes
8/20/2007	Jacob K. Javits and Latin American Economic Integration
3/6/2007	Mere Economic Science
12/14/2006	The Radical Libertarian Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb
12/12/2006	Taxing Development: The Law and Economics of Traffic Impact Fees
11/30/2006	Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?
1/19/2006	Is Future Conflict with China Unavoidable?
8/18/2005	A Geo-Spatial Macro-Economic Analysis of Climate Change
5/23/2005	An Experimental Investigation of Hobbesian Jungles
5/9/2005	Development Aid and Economic Freedom: Are They Related?
4/20/2005	Government and the Economy: The World Wars
4/20/2005	Government and the Economy since World War II
3/14/2005	Is Cybersecurity a Public Good? Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
3/14/2005	“Not Merely Perfidious but Ungrateful”: The U.S. Takeover of West Florida
9/28/2004	State Development Planning: Did it Create an East Asian Miracle?
9/27/2004	Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?
6/2/2004	Coasian Contracts in the Coeur d’Alene Mining District
5/20/2004	Institutional Foundations of Economic Freedom
4/8/2004	Prostitution and Sex Crimes
10/5/2003	Individual Unemployment Accounts
10/3/2003	The Ongoing Growth of Government in the Economically Advanced Countries
10/2/2003	Do Off-Label Drug Practices Argue Against FDA Efficacy Requirements?
10/1/2003	The Lighthouse as a Private-Sector Collective Good
6/2/2003	Wartime Socialization of Investment
5/1/2002	International Money and Common Currencies in Historical Perspective
12/1/2001	The Demand for Democide
10/1/2001	Development of the American Railroad Network During the Early 19th Century
9/1/2001	Privateering and National Defense: Naval Warfare for Private Profit
8/2/2001	Economic Principles of Constitutions
8/1/2001	Constitutional Causes for Technological Leadership: Why Europe?
6/1/2001	Nation of Origin Bias and the Enforcement of Immigration Laws by the Immigration and Naturalization Service
5/4/2001	Political Yardstick Competition, Economic Integration, and Constitutional Choice in a Federation
5/3/2001	Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?
5/2/2001	Teacher Training and Texas Education Reform
5/1/2001	Homicide Rates and Substance Control Policy
4/8/2001	Do Good Laws Make Good Citizens?
4/7/2001	You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care
4/6/2001	The Positive Correlation of Price and Concentration in Staples: Market Power or Indivisibility?
4/5/2001	Minimum Wages For Women Only
4/4/2001	The Changing United States Health Care System
4/3/2001	Public Health and the Placebo: The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
4/2/2001	Political Systems, Economics of Organization, and the Information Revolution (The Supply Side of Public Choice)
4/1/2001	Financial Integration over Three Centuries
3/2/2001	Do Parties Benefit from Electoral Manipulation?
3/1/2001	Constitutional Design and Economic Freedom
6/1/2000	Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration
4/1/2000	Conflicts of Interest in the Hollywood Film Industry
2/1/2000	What Larry Doesn’t Get
1/3/2000	Democracy, Spontaneous Order and Peace
1/2/2000	Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England