Publications

2024 Comparative Approaches to the Study of Prison Gangs and Prison Order David Skarbek · Oxford University Press eBooks · Scholar only 4 2024 Resizing Sykes: Ian O’Donnell in conversation with David Skarbek David Skarbek · Incarceration 2 2024 The Political Economy of Criminal Governance David Skarbek · Public Choice 36 2023 Analytic Narratives in Political Economy David Skarbek · History of Political Economy 20 2023 Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil David Skarbek · Research & Politics 10 2021 Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies David Skarbek · Journal of Experimental Political Science 10 2021 Response to Georg Wenzelburger’s Review of The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World David Skarbek · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2021 The Evolution of Norms within a Society of Captives David Skarbek · Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 5 2021 The Organization of Danish Gangs: A Transaction Cost Approach David Skarbek · Trends in Organized Crime 7 2021 The Partisan Politics of Law and Order. By Georg Wenzelburger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 268p. $49.95 cloth. David Skarbek · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2020 David C Pyrooz and Scott H Decker, Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons David Skarbek · Punishment & Society · Scholar only 1 2020 Qualitative Research Methods for Institutional Analysis David Skarbek · Journal of Institutional Economics 208 2020 The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies around the World David Skarbek · Oxford University Press 165 2019 Latin American elites favor polycentric governance in climate change agreements David Skarbek · SocArXiv · Scholar only — 2018 Peter T. Leeson: WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird: Stanford University Press, CA, 2017, xiv+ 246 pp, USD 27.95 (hardcover) David Skarbek · Public Choice · Scholar only — 2017 Peter T. Leeson: WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird David Skarbek · Public Choice · Scholar only — 2017 Prison Gangs David Skarbek · Routledge handbook of corrections in the United States · Scholar only 31 2017 Self-governance, property rights, and illicit commerce David Skarbek · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · Scholar only 1 2017 The Decline and Rise of Institutions David Skarbek · Cambridge University Press 5 2017 When inmates make the rules (and enforce them): democracy in self-governing prisons David Skarbek · London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · Scholar only — 2016 Covenants without the Sword? Comparing Prison Self-Governance Globally David Skarbek · American Political Science Review 139 2016 Prison gangs David Skarbek · Hayden Griffin and Vanessa Woodward (eds) · Scholar only 38 2015 Criminal Rituals David Skarbek · Global Crime 31 2014 Amy E. Lerman, The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community David Skarbek · Public Choice · Scholar only 1 2014 Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. By Marcus Rediker. Boston: Beacon Press. 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $26.95, cloth David Skarbek · The Journal of Economic History · Scholar only — 2014 Prison Gangs and the Community Responsibility System David Skarbek · Review of Behavioral Economics 35 2014 Prisonomics: Lessons from America's Mass Incarceration David Skarbek · Economic Affairs · Scholar only 5 2014 The Effect of Prison Gang Membership on Recidivism David Skarbek · Journal of Criminal Justice 98 2014 The Social Order of the Underworld David Skarbek · Oxford University Press · needs review 777 2014 Why Didn’t Slaves Revolt More Often During the Middle Passage? David Skarbek · Rationality and Society 14 2013 A Brief Defense of the Economics of Organized Crime David Skarbek · Scholar only — 2013 The Governance Institutions of a Drug Trafficking Organization David Skarbek · Public Choice 60 2012 Anarchy, Groups, and Conflict: An Experiment on the Emergence of Protective Associations David Skarbek · Social Choice and Welfare 38 2012 Prison Gangs, Norms, and Organizations David Skarbek · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 224 2012 Sweatshops, Opportunity Costs, and Non-Monetary Compensation: Evidence from El Salvador David Skarbek · The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 17 2012 The Industrial Organization of Street Gangs David Skarbek · Journal of Gang Research 1 2011 Federico Varese: Mafias on the move: how organized crime conquers new territories David Skarbek · Public Choice · Scholar only 5 2011 Governance and Prison Gangs David Skarbek · American Political Science Review 425 2011 Polycentrism and Prison Gangs David Skarbek · The Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations · Scholar only — 2011 What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis David Skarbek · Cato Journal · Scholar only 3 2010 Criminal Constitutions David Skarbek · Global Crime 90 2010 Putting the ‘Con’ into Constitutions: The Economics of Prison Gangs David Skarbek · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization 144 2010 Restricting Reconstruction: Occupational Licensing and Natural Disasters David Skarbek · Chapters · Scholar only 5 2010 Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison David Skarbek · The Independent Review 45 2009 Adam's Apple: Using Johnny Appleseed to Teach the Invisible Hand David Skarbek · Research Portal (King's College London) · Scholar only 1 2009 What can aid do David Skarbek · Cato J · Scholar only 65 2008 Alertness, local knowledge, and Johnny Appleseed David Skarbek · The Review of Austrian Economics · Scholar only 22 2008 F. A. Hayek’s influence on Nobel Prize winners David Skarbek · The Review of Austrian Economics · Scholar only 32 2008 Market Failure and Natural Disasters: A Reexamination of Anti-Gouging Laws David Skarbek · Research Portal (King's College London) · Scholar only 9 2008 Occupational Licensing and Asymmetric Information: Post- Hurricane Evidence from Florida David Skarbek · Research Portal (King's College London) · Scholar only 32