Nathan P. Goodman

George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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1.

The Military-Industrial Complex

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 22-32
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2022
Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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military-industrial complex, Dwight D. Eisenhower, military sector, rent seeking, revolving door

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Polycentric Defense, Ukraine Style: Explaining Ukrainian Resilience Against Invasion

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-03
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Yahya Alshamy, Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman and Garrett Wood
George Mason University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Mercatus Center and Virginia Wesleyan University
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Defense, Polycentricity, Russia, Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine war

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Polycentric Defense

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-31
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2019
Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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national security, national defense, polycentricity, collective action problems, selective incentives, public goods

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Expert Failure and Pandemics: On Adapting to Life With Pandemics

Cosmos + Taxis, Vol 9 Issues 5-6
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2021
Jon Murphy, Abigail Devereaux, Nathan P. Goodman and Roger Koppl
Nicholls State University, Wichita State University, George Mason University - Mercatus Center and Syracuse University
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COVID-19, Expert Failure, Market Failure, Information Economics, Pandemic, Knowledge Problem

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U.S. Border Militarization and Foreign Policy: A Symbiotic Relationship

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-35
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2022
Nathan P. Goodman and Christopher J. Coyne
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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border security, foreign interventions, foreign policy, militarization, U.S.-Mexican border

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Infectious Diseases and Government Growth

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-40
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Nathan P. Goodman, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail Devereaux
George Mason University - Mercatus Center, George Mason University - Department of Economics and Wichita State University
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apartheid, bubonic plague, compulsory vaccination, COVID-19, crises, infectious disease, growth of government, pandemics, ratchet effect, smallpox, zoning laws

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The Fatal Conceit of Foreign Intervention: Evidence from the Afghanistan Papers

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 21-12
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
Karras Lambert, Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
affiliation not provided to SSRN, George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Afghanistan, Afghanistan Papers, fatal conceit, foreign intervention, nation building

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Sounding the Alarm: The Political Economy of Whistleblowing in the U.S. Security State

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 18-29
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2018
Christopher J. Coyne, Nathan P. Goodman and Abigail R Hall
George Mason University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Mercatus Center and University of Tampa
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Democratic Politics, Information Asymmetries, Whistleblowing, Principal-Agent Problem, U.S. National Security State

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Intellectual Property, Complex Externalities, and the Knowledge Commons

Forthcoming, Public Choice
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Aug 2023
Nathan P. Goodman and Otto Lehto
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and New York University School of Law
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innovation, IP, externalities, transaction costs, law and economics, knowledge commons, polycentricity

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The Political Economy of the Virtual Wall

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-03
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2020
Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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border security, surveillance, virtual walls, rent seeking, civil liberties, cronyism, immigration

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Noxious Government Markets: Evidence From the International Arms Trade

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 22-08
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2022
Yahya Alshamy, Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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arms sales, arms trade, commodification, equality, markets and morality, noxious markets, commodification

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The Market Process as Nonviolent Action

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 23-06
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
Yahya Alshamy, Joshua Ammons, Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Wabash College, George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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desegregation, Hanseatic League, market process theory, nonviolent action, Uber, virtual private networks, vegetarianism

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Drones, Development, and Discovery

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2020, GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-31
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2020
Christopher J. Coyne and Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Africa, Development, Drones, regulatory policy, Unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs

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The Military-Industrial Complex and the Militarization of Society

"The Legacy of Robert Higgs" (edited by Christopher J. Coyne), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 May 2024
Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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military-industrial complex, rent seeking, ratchet effect, ideology, interest groups, militarization, militarism, cronyism

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Border Militarization as an Entrepreneurial Process

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 May 2022
Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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political entrepreneurship, border militarization, rent-seeking, entrepreneurship, immigration, War on Drugs, War on Terror, militarization, crises, bureaucracy

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Gender as an Institution: LGBT Identities and Economic Coordination

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Nov 2023
Alexander Craig and Nathan P. Goodman
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Gender, institutions, coordination

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Border Militarization and Domestic Institutions

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Apr 2024
Nathan P. Goodman
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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border security, border militarization, surveillance, police militarization, federalism, polycentricity, political entrepreneurship

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Neoclassical Economic Approaches to Economic Sociology

The Routledge International Handbook of Economic Sociology. edited by Milan Zafirovski 205-220. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 May 2023
Alexander Craig and Nathan P. Goodman
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Economic sociology, Austrian economics

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State Capacity of Secret Surveillance

Eastern Economic Journal, 0 [10.1057/s41302-024-00278-1 ]
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Feb 2024
Thomas K. Duncan and Nathan P. Goodman
Radford University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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national security, surveillance, state capacity, civil society, ratchet effect

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U.S. Intervention and Coercion-Enabling Capital: Evidence from El Salvador

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Abigail R Hall, Mariam Anelisse Reyes Sandoval, Karla Segovia and Nathan P. Goodman
University of Tampa, The University of Tampa - Department of Finance and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Cold War, Coercion-Enabling Capital, System Effects, El Salvador