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Business, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Economics

Sports Economics, Diversity Economics, Litigation Economics, Conflict Economics, Economics of Corruption, Taiwan Economy, and Chinese Economy

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Classical Liberalism in China: Some History and Prospects.

Econ Journal Watch (2017)

Xingyuan Feng, Weisen Li and Evan W. Osborne

We explore (classical) liberal thought in China. In China’s long recorded history, some ideas similar to subsequent Western liberal thinking ...

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China’s Transitioning Class Identity

China Finance and Economic Review (2016)

Evan W. Osborne

Background China’s rapid economic transformation is similar in some ways to those that have occurred in other rapidly developing nations. ...

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Art as a Capital Asset

Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology (2013)

Evan W. Osborne

A framework for thinking about the social role of art is developed. Using economic ideas, art is depicted as a ...

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Upsets

Journal of Sports Economics (2012)

Evan W. Osborne

The article models the upset—a low-probability outcome of a periodic competition. It is assumed that the upset is an independent ...

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China’s First Liberal

The Independent Review (2012)

Evan W. Osborne

Although he was not a full liberal in the modern sense, Mozi (c. 470–391 B.C.E.) espoused some classical-liberal principles long ...

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Economic Freedom, Ethnic Separatism, and Ethnic Conflict

The Journal of Developing Areas (2010)

Evan W. Osborne

Ethnic conflict has not been tested using economic theory, except its most extreme forms - violence and warfare. This paper ...

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Why Do Some Kinds of Stars Get the Calls?

Journal of Sports Economics (2010)

Evan W. Osborne

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Order and Creativity in Virtual Worlds

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (2009)

Evan W. Osborne and Shu Z. Schiller

Economies are driven by dynamic creativity, but some sorts of creativity, especially if predatory, can destroy an economy. This tradeoff ...

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Commerce is Beautiful

The Independent Review (2008)

Evan W. Osborne

Commerce deserves a place next to literature, poetry, painting, music, and other conventional forms of art as an arena for ...

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Playing it Safe? A Fibonacci Strategy for Soccer Betting

Journal of Sports Economics (2007)

Fragiskos Archontakis and Evan W. Osborne

Soccer betting in Europe has grown rapidly in the past two decades. It is well known that such sports betting ...

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The Sources of Growth at Different Stages of Development

Contemporary Economic Policy (2006)

Evan W. Osborne

Cross-country growth regressions have become an increasingly common tool in empirical development research. But these regressions typically do not attempt ...

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Corruption and Technological Progress: A Takeoff Theory of Good Governance

Atlantic Economic Journal (2006)

Evan W. Osborne

Corruption is known to be a function of its return relative to productive activity. But the idea that corruption might ...

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Corruption and Technological Progress: A Takeoff Theory of Good Governance

Atlantic Economic Journal (2006)

Evan W. Osborne

Corruption is known to be a function of its return relative to productive activity. But the idea that corruption might ...

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Baseball’s International Division of Labor

Journal of Sports Economics (2006)

Evan W. Osborne

Major League Baseball draws players from many nations. This article tests the predictions of neoclassical and product-lifecycle trade theory against ...

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Education Reform as Economic Reform

The Cato Journal (2005)

Evan W. Osborne

Focuses on several findings of literature on economic reform that can be used to draw lessons about repairing the U.S. ...

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Measuring Bad Governance

The Cato Journal (2004)

Evan W. Osborne

Investigates the effects of government policy on growth. Estimates of the determinants of growth; need for Mexico, Argentina and Brazil ...

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Rethinking Foreign Aid

The Cato Journal (2002)

Evan W. Osborne

Recent years have witnessed escalating criticism of the industrialized world for declining levels of foreign aid, especially the official development ...

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What's Yours is Mine: A Rent-Seeking Theory of the ...

Public Choice (2002)

Evan W. Osborne

The paper develops a rent-seeking theory of the common law. The general finding is that the law's form depends on ...

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Financial Crashes in the Globalization Era

The Independent Review (2001)

Evan W. Osborne

The financial crashes of the 1990s have been blamed on financial liberalization, political crises, and changes in U.S. interest rates ...

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Truth, Effort, and the Legal Battle

Public Choice (2001)

Jack Hirshleifer and Evan W. Osborne

In lawsuits, relative success depends upon two main factors: the true degree of fault, and the efforts invested on each ...

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Efficient Markets? Don't Bet on It

Journal of Sports Economics (2001)

Evan W. Osborne

This article tests the efficient-markets hypothesis by looking at profits in National Football League (NFL) betting markets. The author tests ...

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Culture, Development, and Government: Reservations in India

Economic Development and Cultural Change (2001)

Evan W. Osborne

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The Deceptively Simple Economics of Workplace Diversity

Journal of Labor Research (2000)

Evan W. Osborne

Legal, scholarly, and public discussion of work force diversity has proceeded largely without benefit of microeconomic theory. Existing analysis relies ...

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Privatization of Government Services: Pressure-Group Resistance and Service Transparency

Journal of Labor Research (2000)

Werner Z. Hirsch and Evan W. Osborne

Even when efficiency gains can be expected from contracting out municipal services, it surprisingly rarely occurs. Political pressure by interest ...

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Diversity, Multiculturalism, and Ethnic Conflict: A Rent-Seeking Perspective

Kyklos (2000)

Evan W. Osborne

Employs a rent-seeking approach to ethnic conflict to analyze the policy implications of ethnic diversity. Consequences of greater ethnic diversity; ...

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