PERSONAL VITA
 
 

COURSES
 
 

FORTHCOMING PAPERS

 A number of working papers can be accessed here. Papers listed on the vita but not available electronically will be sent upon request (e-mail: bbenson@garnet.acns.fsu.edu). Several of the following papers are forthcoming in journals or edited volumes. These versions of the papers do not correspond precisely to the forthcoming publications since they do not include various editorial changes and corrections. Once papers are published they will be removed from this list, and others will be added as they are produced and/or put into a form that makes accessing them possible.

"The Rise and Fall of Private Roads in England." Private Roads to the Future, Gabriel Roth, ed., (book prepared under contract with the Independent Institute which will place it with a publisher).

"Do Holdout Problems Justify Compulsory Right-of-Way Purchase and Public Provision of Roads?" Private Roads to the Future, Gabriel Roth, ed., (book prepared under contract with the Independent Institute which will place it with a publisher).

"Regulation, More Regulation, Partial Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Dynamics of a Rent-Seeking Society," Advances in Austrian Economics (volume on "Interventionism: The dynamics of regulation and redistribution in the mixed economy"), 2004.

"International Economic Law and Commercial Arbitration," in Economic Analyss of Law: A European Perspective, Aristides, N. Hatzis, eds. (London: Edward Elgar).

"Beliefs as Institution-Specific Rationalized Self-Interest," prepared for inclusion in a collection of essays dedicated to the political philisopher Anthony de Jasay, at the invitation of Aschwin de Wolf, editor of the Festschrift.

"Crime." Invited by the editors, Deirdre McCloskey, Tom Palmer, Jeffrey D. Schultz, and Aaron Steelman for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism.

"Endogenous Morality," in the Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Charles K. Rowley and Fritz Schneider, eds. (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

"The Evolution of Law," in the Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Charles K. Rowley and Fritz Schneider, eds. (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers).

"Emerging From the Hobbesian Jungle," in the Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Charles K. Rowley and Fritz Schneider, eds. (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
 
 

 WORKING PAPERS:
 
 

"Coase Versus Pigou: Alternative Strategies to Reduce Drunk Driving Fatalities." (with Brent D. Mast and David W. Rasmussen).

"Are Roads Public Goods, Club Goods, Private Goods, or Common Pools?"

"Buffalo Wars: An Economic Analysis of Intertribal Relationships on the Great Plains."

"Endogenous Morality." Being revised to resubmit to the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 

 
Papers for Courses:

"Law and Economics," The Elgar Companion to Public Choice, William Shughart, III and Laura Razzolini, editors (London: Edward Elgar, 2001) 574-589.

"Uncertainty, the Race for Property Rights, and Rent Dissipation due to Judicial Changes in Product Liability Tort Law," Cultural Dynamics (November 1996), 331-351.

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