Faculty Writing and Media
Selected Publications
Authored Books
Living Economics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute and Universidad Francisco Marroquin, 2012. Spanish e-book translation, 2013. Romanian Translation, 2013.
The Economic Way of Thinking, (with Paul Heyne [original author] and David Prychitko, preface by Douglass North), 10th ed., 2002; 11th ed., 2005; 12th ed., 2009; 13th ed., 2013, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
The Battle of Ideas: Economics and the Struggle for a Better World, (The Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture), Wellington, NZ: NZBR, 2007.
Is an Independent Non-Profit Sector Prone to Failure?, (with David Prychitko), In Lenore Ealy, ed, Conversations in Philanthropy series. Indianapolis, IN: The Philanthropic Enterprise, 2004.
Calculation & Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy, In Mario Rizzo and Lawrence H. White, eds, Foundations of the Market Economy series, London: Routledge, 2001.
Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation, London: Routledge, 1993. The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: The Formative Years, 1918-1928, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
For a full listing of Professor Boettke's research and publications, please visit his personal webpage www.peter-boettke.com/research/
Selected Publications
Books
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation (Dutton: 2013)
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies (Dutton: 2012)
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better (Dutton: 2011)
Modern Principles of Economics, coauthored with Alex Tabarrok (Worth: 2009)
The Age of the Infovore (aka Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World) (Dutton: 2009)
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist (Dutton: 2007)
Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters (University of Michigan Press: 2005)
Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World’s Cultures (Princeton University Press: 2004)
Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding (Princeton University Press: 2004)
Market Failure or Success: The New Debate, coeditor (Edward Elgar Publishing: 2004)
What Price Fame? (Harvard University Press: 2002)
In Praise of Commercial Culture (Harvard University Press: 2000)
Selected Publications
Books
Perfecting Tyranny: Foreign Intervention and the Loss of Liberty at Home (under contract with Stanford University Press)
Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails (2013, Stanford University Press)
Media, Development and Institutional Change (2009, Edward Elgar Publishing)
After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (2007, Stanford University Press)
Edited Books
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics (2015, Oxford University Press) (co-edited with Peter J. Boettke)
Flaws and Ceilings: Price Controls and the Damage They Cause (2015, London: Institute for Economic Affairs) (with R. Coyne)
The Handbook on the Political Economy of War (2011, Edward Elgar Publishing) (w R. Mathers)
For a complete listing of Professor Coyne's publications, please refer to his personal website www.ccoyne.com.
Selected Publications
Callais, J.T., & Geloso, V. (2023). The Political Economy of Lighthouses in Antebellum America. European Economic Review
Gagnon, J., Geloso, V., & Isabelle, M. (2023). The Incubated Revolution: Education, Cohort Effects and Linguistic Wage Gap in Quebec During the 20th Century. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Geloso, V., Plemmons A.M., & Thomas, A. (2023). No Wheat Crisis: Agricultural Trade Liberalization in Quebec during the 1830s and 1840s. European Review of Economic History.
Callais, J.T., & Geloso, V. (2022). Intergenerational Income Mobility and Economic Freedom. Southern Economic Journal.
Geloso, V., Magness, P., Moore, J., & Schlosser, P. (2022). How Pronounced is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-1960. Economic Journal.
Geloso, V. (2022). Unenlightened Peasants? Farming Techniques Among French-Canadians, circa 1851. Cliometrica.
Kufenko, V., Khaustova, E., & Geloso, V. Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow. Explorations in Economic History.
Candela, R.C. & Geloso, V. (2022). Regulatory Capture and the Dynamics of Interventionism: The Case of Power Utilities in Quebec and Ontario to 1944. Public Choice.
Geloso, V., & Makovi, M. (2022). State Capacity and the Post Office: Evidence from 19th Century Quebec. Journal of Government and Economics.
Dean, J., & Geloso, V. (2022). Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018. Journal of Institutional Economics.
Geloso, V., & Hyde, K., & Murtazashvili. (2021). Pandemics, Economic Freedom, and Institutional Trade-Offs. European Journal of Law and Economics.
Candela, R. A., & Geloso, V. (2021). Economic freedom, pandemics, and robust political economy. Southern Economic Journal.
Cutsinger, B., Geloso, V., & Bédard, M. (2021). The Wild Card: Colonial Paper Money in French North America, 1685 to 1719. European Review of Economic History
Geloso, V. J., & Grier, K. B. (2021). Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec. European Journal of Political Economy.
Geloso, V., & Pavlik, J. B. (2021). The Cuban revolution and infant mortality: A synthetic control approach. Explorations in Economic History, 80.
Geloso, V., & Bologna Pavlik, J.B. (2021). Economic freedom and the economic consequences of the 1918 pandemic. Contemporary Economic Policy.
Dean, J., & Geloso, V. (2021). The linguistic wage gap in Quebec, 1901 to 1951. Cliometrica.
Geloso, V. J., & Salter, A. W. (2020). State capacity and economic development: Causal mechanism or correlative filter?. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Candela, R. A., & Geloso, V. J. (2020). Trade or raid: Acadian settlers and native Americans before 1755. Public Choice.
Candela, R. A., & Geloso, V. (2019). Why consider the lighthouse a public good?. International Review of Law and Economics.
Candela, R. A., & Geloso, V. J. (2018). The lightship in economics. Public Choice.
Geloso, V. J. (2019). Distinct within North America: living standards in French Canada, 1688–1775. Cliometrica.
Selected Publications
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind and Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA.
He has published articles in several scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Science Review, and American Journal of Political Science.
Selected Publications
Books
The Elephant In The Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, with Kevin Simler, Oxford University Press, spring 2017.
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule The Earth, Oxford University Press, June 1, 2016.
The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, Berkeley, CA: Machine Intelligence Research Institute. 2013.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Are Disagreements Honest?, with Tyler Cowen, Journal of Economic Methodology, to appear.
Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?, Journal of Political Philosophy, 21(2):151-178, June, 2013.
Meet The New Conflict, Same As The Old Conflict, Journal of Consciousness Studies 19(1-2):119-125, 2012.
Gaming Prediction Markets: Equilibrium Strategies with a Market Maker, with Yiling Chen, Stan Dimitrov, Rahul Sami, Daniel Reeves, David Pennock, Lance Fortnow, Rica Gonen, Algorithmica, 58(4):930-969, 2010.
On Market Maker Functions, Journal of Prediction Markets 3(1):61-63, April 2009.
A Manipulator Can Aid Prediction Market Accuracy, with Ryan Oprea, Economica, 76(302):304-314, April, 2009.
An Experimental Test of Combinatorial Information Markets, with John Ledyard, Takashi Ishikida, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 69:182-189, 2009.
Book chapters
Decision Markets As Meta-Policy, pp. 109-112, In Reviving Economic Growth: Policy Proposals from 51 Leading Experts, Ed. Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute, September 29, 2015.
A Tale Of Two Transitions, in The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity, ed. Ben Goertzel, Ted Goertzel, pp. 70-80, Humanity+ Press, May 15, 2015.
What Will It Be Like To Be An Emulation? pp.298-309 in ed. Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, Intelligence Unbound: The Future of Uploaded and Machine Minds, Wiley, August 18, 2014.
Comments on "Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import," pp.41-42, and Comments on "Some Economic Incentives Facing a Business that Might Bring About a Technological Singularity," p.159. in Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, ed. Amnon H. Eden, James H. Moor, Johnny H. Søraker, Eric Steinhart, Springer, 2013.
Other Publications
First, we will upload brains to computers. Then, those computers will take over the world, Tech Insider, April 30, 2016.
The "Em" Economy: Imagine a future dominated by brain emulation robots, Angle Journal 13, June 22, 2015.
How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Reason 46(11), April 1, 2015.
Should Earth Shut the Hell Up?, Pascal's Alien Wager, Slow Growth Is Plenty Fast, Adapted Aliens, and Selection Is Coming, Cato Unbound, December 2014.
Regulating Infinity, Global Government Venturing, pp.30-31, September 2014.
When the Economy Transcends Humanity, The Futurist, January-February, 2014.
Who Cares About Forecast Accuracy?, Cato Unbound, July 2011.
Selected Publications
"Ethics and advances in economic science: The role of two norms”, with Jingnan Chen and Angelina Christie. In George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey (Eds), Handbook on Professional Economic Ethics: Views from the Economics Profession and Beyond. Oxford University Press, 2016.
"Adaptive Procedures for Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Tests: Seven Decades of Advances”, with Li Hao. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 2015.
"Dissociable Contribution Of Prefrontal And Striatal Dopaminergic Genes To Learning In Economic Games", with Ming Hsu, Eric Set, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014.
"Raising the price of talk: An experimental analysis of transparent leadership,” with David Levy, Kail Padgitt, Sandra Peart and Erte Xiao. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014.
"House money effects on trust and reciprocity”, with Erte Xiao. Public Choice, 2014.
2014. “Neural Signatures of Betrayal Aversion: An fMRI Study of Trust”, with Jason Aimone and Bernd Weber. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 7 May, vol. 281 no. 178220132127
2014. “The Costs of Conflict”, with Adam Smith, Peter Leeson and Ramin Ostad. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 97, 61-71.
2014 “Experimental Economics and Experimental Game Theory”, with Kevin McCabe. In Paul Glimcher & Ernst Fehr (eds.), Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain. 2nd edition. Academic Press. 19-34.
2013 “Analysis of nonstationary dynamics in the financial system”, with Samar K. Guharay, Gaurav S. Thakur, Fred J. Goodman and Scott L. Rosen. Economics Letters, 454-457.
2013 “High stakes behavior with low payoffs: Inducing preferences with Holt-Laury gambles”, with John Dickhaut, Jason Aimone, Dorina Tila and Cathleen Johnson. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 94, 183-189.
2013 “Cooperation during cultural group formation promotes trust towards members of outgroups”, with Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 07 July, vol 280, no. 1762, doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0606
2013 “Harnessing the benefits of betrayal aversion”, with Jason Aimone. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 89: 1-8. (Lead volume article)
2013 “The causal effect of market priming on trust: An experimental investigation using randomized control”, with Omar Al-Ubaydli, John Nye, Maria Pia Paganelli, Xiaofei (Sophia) Pan. PLoS ONE 8(3): e55968. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055968.
2013 “Temptation at Work,” with Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan. PLoS ONE, 8(1): e53713. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053713
2012 “What you don’t know won’t hurt you: A laboratory analysis of betrayal aversion”, with Jason Aimone. Experimental Economics, 15:4, 571-588.
2012 “Fairness and Cheating”, with Stefan Vetter and Joachim Winter. European Economic Review, 56:8, 1645-1655.
2012 “Non-human primate studies inform the foundation of fair and just human institutions”, with Jingnan Chen, Social Justice Research, 25:3, 277-297.
2012 “Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior”, with Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan. PLoS ONE 7(8):e41568.doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0041568.
2012 “The life and times of Gordon Tullock,” with Charles Rowley. Public Choice, 152: 3-27
2012 “Gordon Tullock and Experimental Economics”, with Thomas Stratmann. Public Choice, 152 2012 “Belief elicitation in the presence of naive participants: An experimental study,” with Li Hao, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 44:2, 161-180.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Anomaly, Jonathan, and Garett Jones (2020). Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: how Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits. Philosophia.
Al-Ubaydli, Omar, Garett Jones, and Jaap Weel (2016). Average player traits as predictors of cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
Jones, Garett (2013). The O-Ring Sector and the Foolproof Sector: An Explanation for Skill Externalities. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, lead article.
Jones, Garett. (2012). Cognitive skill and technology diffusion: An empirical test. Economic Systems.
Nye, John V.C., Grigory Androuschak, Desirée Desierto, Garett Jones, Maria Yudkevich (2012). 2D:4D Asymmetry and Gender Differences in Academic Performance. PLoS ONE.
Jones, Garett and Tim Kane (2012). U.S. Troops and Economic Growth: Regression analysis with robustness tests. Defence and Peace Economics.
Jones, Garett (2011). National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia. Asian Development Review.
Jones, Garett (2010). Speed Bankruptcy: A Firewall to Future Crises. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.
Jones, Garett and W. Joel Schneider (2010). IQ in the Production Function: Evidence from Immigrant Earnings, Economic Inquiry.
Jones, Garett (2008). Are Smarter Groups More Cooperative? Evidence from Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments, 1959-2003. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
Hafer, R.W., Joseph Haslag, and Garett Jones (2007). On Money and Output: Is Money Redundant? Journal of Monetary Economics.
Jones, Garett and W. Joel Schneider (2006). Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach, Journal of Economic Growth.
Selected Publications
Books
Author: Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation. Oxford University Press, 2012 (paperback 2013).
Co-editor (with F.E. Foldvary): The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, a volume about how new technology makes obsolete many of the standard arguments against free enterprise. New York University Press, 2003.
Editor: What Do Economists Contribute?, a volume of previous published articles by R. Coase, T. Schelling, F. Hayek, F. Graham, W. Hutt, I. Kirzner, D. McCloskey, C. Philbrook, and G. Tullock on being an economist; the central theme is that what society most needs from economists is instruction and enlightenment in the basics of the discipline. New York: New York University Press (softback and hardback), 1999; London: Macmillan (hardback), 1999. London: Palgrave (softback edition), 2001. [Chinese translation: Law Press, China, 2005.]
Editor: Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, an interdisciplinary volume of articles, mostly previously published, on the emergence and maintenance of reputation and trust by nongovernmental means. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Co-author: Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit (with A. Moore and B. Reja). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, Washington D. C., 1997. The book argues that curb zones and bus stops are a crucial component of transit services. Many problems of urban transit can be traced to the commons problem existing at the curb. Privatizing curb zones in five-year leases would create a foundation for free enterprise in urban transit. The book won a 1998 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award from the Atlas Foundation. It has been reviewed in JEL, EJ, SEJ, Trans. Res., JAPA, Regulation, and elsewhere. [Korean translation: Korean Research Institute of Transportation Industries, 2005.]
Selected Publications
“Feudal Political Economy” with Desiree Desierto. Economic Theory.
“Resisting Education”, with Jean Paul Carvalho and Cole. Williams. Journal of the European Economic Association. 2024. 22 (6), 2549-2597
“Religious Violence and Coalition Politics in History” with Desiree Desierto. ‘Journal of Historical Political Economy. Vol. 4, No. 2, pp 281-309.
“Economic History as a Progressive Science”. Essays in Economic and Business History. Vol. 42, No.2, June 2024, pp.1-21
“Shipwrecked by Rents”, with Fernando Arteaga and Desiree Desierto. The Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 168, May
“Pandemics and Cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the Long-Run” with Remi Jedwab and Noel Johnson. Journal of Urban Economics. Vol. 139, January 2024, 103628
“The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe” with Desiree Desierto. TheJournal of Economic History. Vol. 84, No. 2, June 2024. pp, 479-516.
“The Fractured-Land Hypothesis” with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Tuan-Hwee Sng, and Lin Youhong. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 138, No. 2, May 2023, pp. 1173–1231,
How the World Became Rich” with Jared Rubin. Polity Press, May 2022. Amazon.
Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom, with Noel D. Johnson, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2019. Amazon
“The Economic Impact of the Black Death,” The Journal of Economic Literature, with Remi Jedwab and Noel D. Johnson. Vol. 60. Issue 1. March 2022. Pages 132-178.
[See My CV for a Full List of Publications]
Selected Publications
Razor-Thin Mass Elections with High Turnout, with David K. Levine, International Economic Review vol. 65: 1607–1624 (2024)
Assignment Markets: Theory and Experiments, with Arthur Dolgopolov, Dan Houser and Thomas Stratmann, European Economic Review vol. 165: 104738 (2024)
Accountability and Grand Corruption, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol 14: 645–679 (2022)
Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy, with John Duggan, Economic Journal, vol. 130: 675–715 (2020); included in a special virtual on Accountability and Electoral Selection (June 2025)
Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment, with Susan W. Parker, Ana Cristina Pérez-Gea, and Rodimiro Rodrigo, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 10: 298–325 (2018)
Selected Publications
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History, Journal of Political Economy, accepted, with Max Posch and Joseph Henrich.
Social Norms and Dishonesty across Societies (2022). PNAS (with Diego Aycinena, Lucas Rentschler and Ben Beranek)
Kin Networks and Institutional Development (2022). Economic Journal. Winner of the Royal Economic Society Price 2022.
The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation (2019). Science, 366, 6466 (with D. Bahrami-Rad, J. Beauchamp, & J. Henrich)
The Moral Machine Experiment (2018). Nature, 563, 59-64 (with E. Awad, S. Dsouza, R. Kim, J. Henrich, A. Shariff, J.-F. Bonnefon, & I. Rahwan)
Intrinsic Honesty and the Prevalence of Rule Violations across Societies (2016). Nature, 531, 496‑499 (with S. Gächter)