Rosolino Candela

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1.

Price Theory as Prophylactic Against Popular Fallacies

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-05
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 02 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 10 May 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Chicago Price Theory; Alternative Institutional Arrangements; Market Equilibrium

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Development and Property Rights

In Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds. Encyclopedia on Law and Economics. Springer, 2014.
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Armen Alchian, James Buchanan, F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Property Rights, Economic Development.

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Alchian, Buchanan, & Coase: A Neglected Branch of Chicago Price Theory

Man and the Economy. Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 189–208
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2015
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Armen Alchian, James Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Chicago price theory, comparative institutional analysis

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What Is Old Should Be New Again: Methodological Individualism, Institutional Analysis and Spontaneous Order

Boettke, Peter J., and Rosolino A. Candela. 2015. "What Is Old Should Be New Again: Methodological Individualism, Institutional Analysis and Spontaneous Order." Sociologia 2: 5-14
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 May 2015 Last Revised: 11 May 2016
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice, Spontaneous Order

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Liberal Libertarians: Why Libertarianism is a Liberal View

Jason Brennan, David Schmidtz, and Bas van der Vossen (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Libertarianism. New York: Routledge, 2017, 92-107, GMU Working Paper in Economics
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Samuel Freeman; Libertarianism; private property; generality norm; non-aggression axiom

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The Intellectual Context of F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom

The Journal of Private Enterprise, vol. 32, no. 1 (2017): 29-44.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Hayek, Road to Serdom, political economy of socialism

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Vilfredo Pareto's Theory of Action: An Alternative to Behavioral Economics

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, vol. 24, no. 2 (2016): 15-28
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Rosolino Candela and Richard E. Wagner
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Vilfredo Pareto, logical vs. non-logical action, rationality, behavioral economics

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The Austrian School of Economics: A View from London

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-33
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2019
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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F.A. Hayek; Lionel Robbins; London School of Economics; Austrian Economics

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Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production

Atlantic Economic Journal vol. 42, no. 2 (2014): 123-131.
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Legal Institutions, Developmental State, Comparative economic systems

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Rational Choice as If the Choosers Were Human

In Morris Altman, (ed). Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Smart Decision-Making: Rational Decision-Making within the Bounds of Reason, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2017, pp. 68-85.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Rational Choice, Homo Economicus, Mainline Economists

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Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and Constitutional Political Economy

In Robert A. Cord and Daniel Hammond, eds. Milton Friedman: Contributions to Economics and Public Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 727-740.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 May 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, Constitutional Political Economy, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Spontaneous Order

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Rivalry, Polycentricism, and Institutional Evolution

Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 19, pp. 1-19 (2015)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2016
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Legal Institutions, James Buchanan, Ronald Coase, Elinor Ostrom, F.A Hayek, Austrian political economy

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Comparative Historical Political Economy and the Bourgeois Era

Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2017, pp. 13-29.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Deirdre McCloskey; comparative historical political economy; institutions

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The Liberty of Progress: Increasing Returns, Institutions, and Entrepreneurship

Social Philosophy and Policy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Winter 2017, pp. 136-163
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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entrepreneurship, institutions, liberty, progress, economic growth

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The Lightship in Economics

Public Choice vol. 176, no. 3 (2018): 479-506.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2018
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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government failure; lighthouse; lightship; market failure; public goods

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Das Milton Friedman Problem?: A Reassessment of Friedman's Contributions to Economic Methodology

In Julio H. Cole, ed. UFM Companion to Milton Friedman. Guatemala City: Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Forthcoming, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-08
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Milton Friedman; Economic Methodology; Market Socialism

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A Combustible Combination: McCloskey on Ideas, Institutions, and Economic Performance Through Time

Faith and Economics, vol. 68, pp. 41-45.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Deirdre McCloskey; Douglass North; institutions

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A Social Morality for Mortals: A Review Essay of The Order of Public Reason: A Theory of Freedom and Morality in a Diverse and Bounded World

The Review of Austrian Economics, vol. 30, no. 3 (2017): 365-375.
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Gerald Gaus, Israel Kirzner, Socialist Calculation Debate, political economy

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Stigler on the Science of Economics: A Tale of Two Knights

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-34
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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George Stigler; James Buchanan; Economic Science; Public Policy

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Gordon Tullock, Praxeology, and the Qualities of a Natural Born Misesian

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Gordon Tullock, Praxeology, and the Qualities of a Natural Born Misesian

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Dec 2017
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Gordon Tullock; Praxeology; Homo Economicus

Gordon Tullock, Praxeology, and the Qualities of a Natural Born Misesian

The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 23, no. 2 (2018): 169–185. , GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-48
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Gordon Tullock; Praxeology; Homo Economicus

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Productive Specialization, Peaceful Cooperation, and the Problem of the Predatory State: Lessons From Comparative Historical Political Economy

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-10, Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Constitutional Political Economy; Predation; State Capacity; Economic Development

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Why Consider the Lighthouse a Public Good?

International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 60, 2019, pp.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2019
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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government failure; lighthouse; pilotage; market failure; public goods

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Liberalism in Crisis and the Promise of a Reconstructed Liberalism

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 139, no. 2–4, 2019, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-13
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 13 May 2020
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Walter Lippmann Colloquium; F.A. Hayek; Frank Knight; Ludwig Von Mises; Henry Simons

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Finding the 'Middle Ground' in Academics: Important Lessons from Roger Garrison in Austrian Economics

The Journal of Private Enterprise, vol. 30, no.4 (2015): 113-117.
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Roger Garrison; Austrian School

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James Buchanan and the Properly Trained Economist

In Richard E. Wagner, ed. James M. Buchanan: A Theorist of Political Economy and Social Philosophy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 65–83. , GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-17
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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James Buchanan; Economic Science; Political Economy

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Lessons on Economics and Political Economy from the Soviet Tragedy

Journal of Global Initiatives, vol. 12, no. 1 (2017): 32-47.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Central Planning; Property Rights; Socialism; Soviet Union

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The Positive Political Economy of Analytical Anarchism

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 2020-08
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2020
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Anarchism; Endogenous Rule Formation; Political Economy

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The Institutional Justice of the Market Process: Entrepreneurship, Increasing Returns, and Income Distribution.

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-07
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2018
Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino Candela and Kaitlyn Woltz
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Distributive Justice; Entrepreneurship; Increasing Returns

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The Role of Transaction Costs in Douglass North’s Understanding of the Process of Change in Economic History

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2019
Rosolino Candela
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Douglass North; Economic History; Institutions; Transaction Costs

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Markets as Processes of Moral Discovery

Studies In Emergent Order, vol. 7 (2014): 258-272.
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Benjamin Powell and Rosolino Candela
Texas Tech University - Free Market Institute and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Virtue; Self-Interest; Entrepreneurship

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The Lighthouse Debate and the Dynamics of Interventionism

The Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 May 2018
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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Entrepreneurship; Dynamics of Interventionism; Lighthouses; Regulation

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Calculation and Corporate Tax Incentives

Political Economy in the Carolinas, 2019, vol 2., pp. 61-75
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 May 2019 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2019
Rosolino Candela and Peter Jacobsen
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and George Mason University
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market process, economic calculation, knowledge problem, corporate tax incentives, rent-seeking

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Where Chicago Meets London: James Buchanan, Virginia Political Economy, and Cost Theory

Public Choice, forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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James Buchanan; Ronald Coase; Cost Theory; Political Economy; Public Policy

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Publications of Israel M. Kirzner

In Peter J. Boettke and Frédéric Sautet, eds. The Collected Works of Israel M. Kirzner: Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2019, pp. 231–262. , GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-02
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2020
Peter J. Boettke, Frederic Sautet and Rosolino Candela
George Mason University - Department of Economics, The Catholic University of America (CUA) - Busch School of Business and Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Israel M. Kirzner; Published Works

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Is the Market Wage the Just Wage? A Reassessment of Factor Pricing and Distributive Justice

Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 11, no. 2 (2018): 124–143.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino Candela and Kaitlyn Woltz
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Income Distribution; Joseph Heath; Marginal Productivity Theory

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Transition Economies: Rule of Law and Credible Commitment

In Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello, eds. Encyclopedia on Law and Economics. New York: Springer, 2018.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Rosolino Candela and Ennio Emanuele Piano
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Middle Tennessee State University
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The Rule of Law; Transition Economies; Credible Commitment

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Rule of Law

Encyclopedia on Law and Economics, Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello (eds.), Springer, 2018.
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Rosolino Candela and Ennio Emanuele Piano
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Middle Tennessee State University
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The Rule of Law; Generality; Predictability; Equality; Entrepreneurship

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The Art and Science of Economic Explanation: Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Yoram Barzel

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-43
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2019
Rosolino Candela and Ennio Emanuele Piano
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Middle Tennessee State University
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Yoram Barzel, Property Rights, Transaction Costs, Political Economy

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Institutional Analysis, Polycentricity, and Federalism in the Bloomington School: Social Order Through Evolution or Design?

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-28
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Rosolino Candela
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Federalism; Polycentricity; F.A. Hayek; Elinor Ostrom Vincent Ostrom; Spontaneous Order

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Market Theory and the Lighthouse System

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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Israel Kirzner; Lighthouses; Efficiency; Regulation

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Malcom McLean, Containerization and Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 May 2020
Rosolino Candela, Peter Jacobsen and Kacey Reeves
Mercatus Center at George Mason University, George Mason University and George Mason University, Department of Economics, Students
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Containerization; Entrepreneurship; Malcom McLean

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The Socialist Calculation Debate and its Normative Implications

Advances in Austrian Economics 23 (2018): 29-44.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2018
Rosolino Candela
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Austrian Economics; economic calculation; entrepreneurship; eudaimonia; Ludwig von Mises; F.A. Hayek; Israel Kirzner

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Rule of Law and Economic Performance

Encyclopedia on Law and Economics, Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello (eds.). Springer, 2018.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2018
Rosolino Candela and Ennio Emanuele Piano
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Middle Tennessee State University
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The Rule of Law; Property Rights; Economic Performance

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The Political Economy of Insecure Property Rights: Insights from the Kingdom of Sicily

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2019
Rosolino Candela
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Yoram Barzel, Italian Unification, Property Rights, Rule of Law, Sicily

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Coase and Transaction Costs Reconsidered: The Case of the English Lighthouse System

European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 48, no. 3 (2019): 331-349
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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Ronald Coase, transaction costs, lighthouses, lightships

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The Morality of the Market Process and the Normative Implications of Catallactic Competition

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Sep 2019
Rosolino Candela
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Competition; Market Process; Morality